[MUD-Dev2] [OFF-TOPIC] A rant against Vanguard reviews and rants

Richard A. Bartle richard at mud.co.uk
Thu Mar 15 09:33:56 CET 2007


On 07 March 2007, John Buehler wrote:
>Character-character collision detection is certainly solveable:
>http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/crowd-flows/
>I very much enjoyed the animations.
	The 54Mb download was a little too large for me, but do those
collision detections show what happens when a small group of people
try to prevent a large group of people from entering an area?

>Players don't complain about the
>weakness of the emote system.  It's a toy aspect of MMORPGs.
	But it's one that does annoy people if it's done wrong; or, rather,
if it's done right then they notice when it's done wrong.

		Richard



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