[MUD-Dev] Wilderness

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koster, Raph [mailto:rkoster at verant.com]
 >> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Hook
 
>> When I have the time I want to get around to writing a massive
>> space exploration game.
  
>> The ultimate goal, at least for planetary content creation, is
>> that there are worlds based off a set of random number seeds
>> which determine the details of that world (at least in terms of
>> topography, climate, etc.).  These worlds will have never existed
>> completely on anyone's systems -- they're just random number
>> seeds -- and the first explorers will be, literally, the first
>> people to ever see them.  Even the game developers have never
>> seen them.  Those first few player maps will be the real maps.

> That was Privateer Online.

Perhaps, but thats how Elite did all of its planets too!

Ok so you couldn't explore them, but all the socio-economic info,
locations and names were seeded. On computers with 32k memory, it
was a necessity of course. Sometimes I wish computers evolved less
quickly so that people would have a chance to display some of the
ingenuity bred of pushing an environment beyond expectations. I
guess thats solely the domain of consoles now though.

I miss my Amiga.

Dan
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