[MUD-Dev] Weather and Multiple Planets

[rayzam]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Mitchell" <impmud at yahoo.com>
To: <mud-dev at kanga.nu>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:37 PM
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Weather and Multiple Planets


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> Hello all.
>
> I'm developing a SciFi MUD that incorporates a
> universe full of planets, each with its own
> time/weather properties. The MUDlib is being developed
> from TMI-2.
>
> My initial design to solving the multi-planet weather
> system was to take the current weather daemon and
> simply make all the data arrays multi-dimensional,
> adding a dimension for the planet. Is this the best
> way to solve the problem? or should I try having
> multiple weather daemons running at once?
>
> Are there any public mudlibs that have implemented
> this?
>

    We've done this on Retromud. I wasn't the one to implement it, however.
But it is multiple weather daemons inheriting the main base daemon, and
loading in different weather/moons/seasons/cycles/calendars/holidays as
appropriate to that world.

    Don't know if this is 'best' but it definitely works and it's easy to
maintain/update the individual worlds and allow them to have more
differences than just weather [i.e. why would every world have the same # of
days in a season or a year, or even the same seasons?]

    Rayzam


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