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November 1997

DESIGN: ECONOMICS: Money Supply coder@ibm.net
Less numbers, more roleplaying. coder@ibm.net
- Less numbers, more roleplaying. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- - Less numbers, more roleplaying. Marian Griffith
  - - Less numbers, more roleplaying. Adam Wiggins
    - - Less numbers, more roleplaying. coder@ibm.net
      - Less numbers, more roleplaying. Marian Griffith
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Derrick Jones
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Marian Griffith
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Derrick Jones
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Richard Woolcock
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Adam Wiggins
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Richard Woolcock
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Adam Wiggins
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Derrick Jones
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Jon Leonard
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Adam Wiggins
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. coder@ibm.net
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Matt Chatterley
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. coder@ibm.net
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Matt Chatterley
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. coder@ibm.net
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Matt Chatterley
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. coder@ibm.net
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Vadim Tkachenko
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Derrick Jones
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Matt Chatterley
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Derrick Jones
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Adam Wiggins
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Jon A. Lambert
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Chris Gray
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Matt Chatterley
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Richard Woolcock
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Richard Woolcock
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Derrick Jones
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Jon A. Lambert
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. coder@ibm.net
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Adam Wiggins
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Marian Griffith
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. Richard Woolcock
        Less numbers, more roleplaying. coder@ibm.net
      - Less numbers, more roleplaying. Marian Griffith
SUMMARY: Skills and Skills improvement coder@ibm.net
newbie Marc Eyrignoux
- newbie coder@ibm.net
- newbie Miroslav Silovic
- newbie Sauron
- - newbie Derrick Jones
  - - newbie Chris Gray
  - newbie coder@ibm.net
  - - newbie Matt Chatterley
Fear of magic (was:Usability and interface)y Adam Wiggins
Sorry... Bjarni Norddahl
OT: threading list messages Alex Oren
- OT: threading list messages coder@ibm.net
- - OT: threading list messages Alex Oren
  - OT: threading list messages s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- OT: threading list messages Chris Gray
AI Path Finding Todd Lair
A flamewar startingpoint. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- A flamewar startingpoint. Adam Wiggins
- A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
- - A flamewar startingpoint. Chris Gray
  - - A flamewar startingpoint. Brandon Cline
    - - A flamewar startingpoint. Chris Gray
      - A flamewar startingpoint. Brandon Cline
        A flamewar startingpoint. Derrick Jones
        A flamewar startingpoint. Brandon J. Rickman
        A flamewar startingpoint. s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
        A flamewar startingpoint. Adam Wiggins
        A flamewar startingpoint. Derrick Jones
        A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
        A flamewar startingpoint. Miroslav Silovic
        A flamewar startingpoint. Derrick Jones
        A flamewar startingpoint. Chris Gray
        A flamewar startingpoint. Derrick Jones
        A flamewar startingpoint. Miroslav Silovic
        A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
        A flamewar startingpoint. Marian Griffith
        A flamewar startingpoint. Matt Chatterley
        A flamewar startingpoint. Jon A. Lambert
        A flamewar startingpoint. Chris Gray
        A flamewar startingpoint. Matt Chatterley
        A flamewar startingpoint. JC Lawrence
        A flamewar startingpoint. Marian Griffith
        A flamewar startingpoint. Jon A. Lambert
        A flamewar startingpoint. JC Lawrence
        A flamewar startingpoint. Marian Griffith
        A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
      - A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
    - A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
  - A flamewar startingpoint. Adam Wiggins
  - - A flamewar startingpoint. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    - - A flamewar startingpoint. Adam Wiggins
      - A flamewar startingpoint. Derrick Jones
        A flamewar startingpoint. Adam Wiggins
        A flamewar startingpoint. Sauron
        A flamewar startingpoint. Derrick Jones
        A flamewar startingpoint. Adam Wiggins
        A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
        A flamewar startingpoint. Matt Chatterley
        A flamewar startingpoint. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        A flamewar startingpoint. Adam Wiggins
        A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
      - A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
  - A flamewar startingpoint. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  - - A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
    - - A flamewar startingpoint. Nathan Yospe
- A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
- A flamewar startingpoint.) Chris Gray
- A flamewar startingpoint.) Miroslav Silovic
- - A flamewar startingpoint.) Jon A. Lambert
  - - A flamewar startingpoint.) Marian Griffith
    - - A flamewar startingpoint.) Adam Wiggins
      - A flamewar startingpoint.) Derrick Jones
      - A flamewar startingpoint.) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    - A flamewar startingpoint.) coder@ibm.net
    - - A flamewar startingpoint.) Chris Gray
      - A flamewar startingpoint.) coder@ibm.net
        
        On 11/12/97 at 11:05 PM, cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA (Chris Gray)
        said: >[Chris L:]
        
        >:What I don't like about this is that it does not allow any decent level of
        >:complexity or careful fore-planning, and seems too close to the DIKU-style
        >:type-kill-and-wait-and-see-who-wins. I also don't like moving to a
        >:clocked system as it fairly well forces me to move the entire game to a
        >:clocked system, which I'm resistant to. I'm still much won over with
        >:letting everything execute as quickly as it can.
        
        >This *is* a change in thinking!
        
        True. Unfortunately I don't like it any more than the old approach. It
        also suffers from the same weaknesses as the old approach in that it
        doesn't support a world where entirely innocuous actions, as simple as
        dropping an object, pulling a string, or wiggling an eyebrow may prove to
        be fearsome weapons in a fight.
        
        I'm also having trouble figuring out how to make the base combat structure
        extensible with user-coded patterns, routines, models etc using this sort
        of approach. Technically its not too difficult, but the public interface
        is troublesome.
        
        >How about more of a middle ground? Simple choices are available to the
        >player for responses to various threats, and they operate at a speed
        >determined by the apparant urgency of the trigger. If the player wishes
        >to manually trigger one of the responses, that can be done too, and is
        >then more of an attack. That explicit trigger can include an urgency
        >which overrides the default one for that response.
        
        This rather equates to Wiggin's model of: The players circle each other,
        looking for an opening to attack. When an opening presents itself for a
        selected attack form, they do that. The rest of the time they operate of
        a minimal set of defaults.
        
        This works. Sorta. It also has problems in melee or group situations I'm
        not comfortable with. I'd like to support pack, regiment, melee and front
        style assaults as well as the normal one on one.
        
        >Given a framework, you can then allow more ambitious users to define
        >their own "responses", and hence go back towards your scripts. Most RP
        >games have ticks that govern how fast things can execute - those ticks
        >would relate to the speed of script steps, also interacting with any
        >urgency supplied, and the capabilities of the character.
        
        Hurm. I like the basic idea of the user creating a stack of potential
        actions which are then done on a best-fit basis as the fight progresses.
        I'd have to have the ability to have a DO-IT-NOW type command to bypass
        the queueing. Gotta think on this.
        
        --
        J C Lawrence Internet: claw@null.net
        ----------(*) Internet: coder@ibm.net
        ...Honourary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
      - A flamewar startingpoint.) Adam Wiggins
      - A flamewar startingpoint.) Stephen Zepp
        A flamewar startingpoint.) Adam Wiggins
        A flamewar startingpoint.) Stephen Zepp
        A flamewar startingpoint.) Adam Wiggins
        A flamewar startingpoint.) coder@ibm.net
      - A flamewar startingpoint.) Jon A. Lambert
- A flamewar startingpoint.) Chris Gray
- A flamewar startingpoint.) Adam Wiggins
- - A flamewar startingpoint.) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- A flamewar startingpoint. coder@ibm.net
- A flamewar startingpoint.) coder@ibm.net
Noise-to-signal ratio Sauron
Gender specific Marian Griffith
- Gender specific Adam Wiggins
- - Gender specific Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  - Gender specific Marian Griffith
  - - Gender specific Sauron
    - - Gender specific Marian Griffith
      - Gender specific Derrick Jones
      - Gender specific Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  - Gender specific Mike Sellers
  - - Gender specific Adam Wiggins
    - - Gender specific Mike Sellers
    - Gender specific Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    - - Gender specific Caliban Tiresias Darklock
Gender specific Cynbe ru Taren
Eating and sleeping (was: A flamewar startingpoint.) Derrick Jones
A flamewar startingpoint.y Adam Wiggins
SUMMARY: Mud Grammar Jon A. Lambert
You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- You, the game of philosophy. Adam Wiggins
- - You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  - - You, the game of philosophy. coder@ibm.net
    - - You, the game of philosophy. Jon A. Lambert
      - You, the game of philosophy. JC Lawrence
- You, the game of philosophy. Derrick Jones
- - You, the game of philosophy. Richard Woolcock
  - - You, the game of philosophy. Adam Wiggins
    - - You, the game of philosophy. Richard Woolcock
      - You, the game of philosophy. Adam Wiggins
        You, the game of philosophy. Richard Woolcock
      - You, the game of philosophy. coder@ibm.net
      - You, the game of philosophy. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
        You, the game of philosophy. Adam Wiggins
        You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        You, the game of philosophy. coder@ibm.net
        You, the game of philosophy. Derrick Jones
        You, the game of philosophy. coder@ibm.net
        You, the game of philosophy. Jon A. Lambert
        You, the game of philosophy. Marian Griffith
        You, the game of philosophy. Jon A. Lambert
        You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        You, the game of philosophy. Jon A. Lambert
        You, the game of philosophy. Matt Chatterley
        You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        You, the game of philosophy. Jon A. Lambert
        You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        You, the game of philosophy. JC Lawrence
        You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        You, the game of philosophy. JC Lawrence
        You, the game of philosophy. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    - You, the game of philosophy. Derrick Jones
    - You, the game of philosophy. coder@ibm.net
    - - You, the game of philosophy. Vadim Tkachenko
      - You, the game of philosophy. coder@ibm.net
  - You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  - - You, the game of philosophy. Derrick Jones
    - - You, the game of philosophy. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- You, the game of philosophy. coder@ibm.net
- - You, the game of philosophy. Chris Gray
  - - You, the game of philosophy. Stephen Zepp
- You, the game of philosophy. Jon A. Lambert
Dynamic room descriptions Richard Woolcock
Naming and descriptions (was Introductions and descriptions) Mike Sellers
Introductions and descriptions Matt Chatterley
- Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
- - Introductions and descriptions Matt Chatterley
  - - Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
    - - Introductions and descriptions Adam Wiggins
      - Introductions and descriptions coder@ibm.net
      - Introductions and descriptions Marian Griffith
      - Introductions and descriptions Sauron
        Introductions and descriptions Marian Griffith
        Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
        Introductions and descriptions Chris Gray
        Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
      - Introductions and descriptions Matt Chatterley
      - Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
    - Introductions and descriptions Maddy
    - - Introductions and descriptions Matt Chatterley
    - Introductions and descriptions coder@ibm.net
    - - Introductions and descriptions Matt Chatterley
      - Introductions and descriptions coder@ibm.net
        Introductions and descriptions Derrick Jones
  - Introductions and descriptions Derrick Jones
  - - Introductions and descriptions Adam Wiggins
    - - Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
      - Introductions and descriptions Maddy
        Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
        Introductions and descriptions Maddy
        Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
        Introductions and descriptions Adam Wiggins
        Introductions and descriptions Derrick Jones
        Introductions and descriptions Jon A. Lambert
        Introductions and descriptions Adam Wiggins
        Introductions and descriptions Brandon J. Rickman
        Introductions and descriptions Adam Wiggins
        Introductions and descriptions Derrick Jones
        Introductions and descriptions Vadim Tkachenko
        Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
        Introductions and descriptions coder@ibm.net
        Introductions and descriptions Richard Woolcock
        Introductions and descriptions Maddy
        Introductions and descriptions coder@ibm.net
        Introductions and descriptions coder@ibm.net
      - Introductions and descriptions coder@ibm.net
      - Introductions and descriptions Adam Wiggins
Introductions and Matt Chatterley
- Introductions and Adam Wiggins
- - Introductions and Derrick Jones
  - Introductions and Marian Griffith
  - - Introductions and Matt Chatterley
- Introductions and Richard Woolcock
- - Introductions and Marian Griffith
  - - Introductions and Sauron
    - - Introductions and Marian Griffith
      - Introductions and Adam Wiggins
        Introductions and Marian Griffith
        Introductions and Mike Sellers
        Introductions and Brandon J. Rickman
        Introductions and Mike Sellers
        Introductions and Caliban Tiresias Darklock
        Introductions and Richard Woolcock
        Introductions and Richard Woolcock
    - Introductions and Adam Wiggins
    - Introductions and Matt Chatterley
    - - Introductions and Mike Sellers
      - Introductions and Richard Woolcock
      - Introductions and Jon A. Lambert
    - Introductions and Richard Woolcock
    - - Introductions and Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      - Introductions and Richard Woolcock
        Introductions and Ola Fosheim Grøstad
Introductions and Maddy
- Introductions and Richard Woolcock
- Introductions and coder@ibm.net
- - Introductions and Ling
  - - Introductions and coder@ibm.net
Introductions and Richard Woolcock
mud time (A flamewar startingpoint.) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
Nostalgy (A flamewar startingpoint.) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
Communication [was Introductions and..] Matt Chatterley
- Communication [was Introductions and..] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- - Communication [was Introductions and..] Adam Wiggins
  - - Communication [was Introductions and..] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    - - Communication [was Introductions and..] Derrick Jones
- Communication [was Introductions and..] Marian Griffith
- Communication [was Introductions and..] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
requests Marian Griffith
- requests Marian Griffith
- - requests Frank Crowell
- requests Chris Gray
- requests Brandon J. Rickman
more requests Marian Griffith
Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
- Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Mike Sellers
- - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
  - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Koster, Raph
    - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Mike Sellers
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Koster, Raph
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Adam Wiggins
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Koster, Raph
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Marian Griffith
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Richard Woolcock
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] JC Lawrence
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Mike Sellers
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Marian Griffith
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Felix A. Croes
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Mike Sellers
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Felix A. Croes
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Mike Sellers
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Maddy
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
    - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Marian Griffith
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Mike Sellers
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Marian Griffith
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Stephen Zepp
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Richard Woolcock
  - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
  - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Koster, Raph
    - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
- Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ling
- - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Derrick Jones
  - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
  - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Richard Woolcock
    - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ling
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Richard Woolcock
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
  - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
  - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Koster, Raph
  - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Marian Griffith
    - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Vadim Tkachenko
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Derrick Jones
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Richard Woolcock
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Derrick Jones
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Chris Gray
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Marian Griffith
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Marian Griffith
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Adam Wiggins
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Derrick Jones
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ling
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Stephen Zepp
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Derrick Jones
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Mike Sellers
        Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Stephen Zepp
- Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] JC Lawrence
- - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] JC Lawrence
    - - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
      - Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] Matt Chatterley
- Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World] JC Lawrence
Adventurer Groups [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
- Adventurer Groups [was Affecting the World] s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- - Adventurer Groups [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
  - - Adventurer Groups [was Affecting the World] s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
    - - Adventurer Groups [was Affecting the World] coder@ibm.net
    - Adventurer Groups [was Affecting the World] Jon A. Lambert
fwd: Erasmatron Revs up Interactive Fiction Brandon J. Rickman
Q: What are the coolest thief skills people have seen? coder@ibm.net
Lots of things about me (long) Ling
OT: my web pages Marian Griffith
Java, applets, forests and ecologies. Ling
- Java, applets, forests and ecologies. Derrick Jones
- - Java, applets, forests and ecologies. Michael Hohensee
  - - Java, applets, forests and ecologies. Chris Gray
  - Java, applets, forests and ecologies. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Java, applets, forests and ecologies. Chris Gray
- (Java, applets,) forests and ecologies. Marian Griffith
Thief skills, Dream Park and me (again) Ling
- Thief skills, Dream Park and me (again) Adam Wiggins
- Thief skills, Dream Park and me (again) Chris Gray
- Thief skills, Dream Park and me (again) Richard Woolcock
- Thief skills, Dream Park and me (again) coder@ibm.net
... forests and ecologies. Mike Sellers
- ... forests and ecologies. Jon A. Lambert
- ... forests and ecologies. coder@ibm.net
Java Chris Gray