September 1997
- META: Archive report coder@ibm.net
- Virtual World Theory Jon A. Lambert
- Virtual World Theory Jeff Kesselman
- Virtual World Theory Jon A. Lambert
- Virtual World Theory Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Virtual World Theory Nathan Yospe
- Virtual World Theory Jeff Kesselman
- Virtual World Theory Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Psychology, psychiatry, and other such coder@ibm.net
- Psychology, psychiatry, and other such Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- OT: Attributions Shawn Halpenny
- OT: Attributions Jeff Kesselman
- OT: Attributions Chris Gray
- OT: Attributions S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
- GURPS v Hero v RuneQuest clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- combat and hit points clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects Travis Casey
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects Shawn Halpenny
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects Miroslav Silovic
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects Miroslav Silovic
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects Chris Gray
- Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects S001GMU@nova.wright.edu
- Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting.. [was AI and NPCs] Matt Chatterley
- Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting.. [was AI and NPCs] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting.. [was AI and NPCs] Matt Chatterley
- Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting.. [was AI and NPCs] Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Everybody was African fighting.. Jeff Kesselman
- MUD Design Fundamentals (Was: Looking for clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Critical Hits clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Critical Hits Jeff Kesselman
- MAGE 2 MAGE Spell System clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- MAGE 2 MAGE Spell System Travis Casey
- ramblings on resets and other random things Travis Casey
- ramblings on resets and other random things Adam Wiggins
- Porn threads clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Porn threads Jeff Kesselman
- Porn threads Nathan Yospe
- Invitation to mudlist, a mailinglist for concepts in mud design Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Mud Games Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world Marian Griffith
- Affecting the world Matt Chatterley
- Affecting the world ##Make Nylander
- Affecting the world Miroslav Silovic
- Affecting the world Maddy
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world Marian Griffith
- Affecting the world Matt Chatterley
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world Matt Chatterley
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world Matt Chatterley
- Affecting the world Nathan Yospe
- Affecting the world Matt Chatterley
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Affecting the world Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Affecting the world clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Affecting the world Matt Chatterley
- Affecting the world Adam Wiggins
- Affecting the world Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Affecting the world clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Affecting the world Matt Chatterley
- Affecting the world clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Affecting the world Marian Griffith
- Affecting the world clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Affecting the world Chris Gray
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world Chris Gray
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- Affecting the world Marian Griffith
- Affecting the world Derrick Jones
- Affecting the world coder@ibm.net
- Affecting the world Jon A. Lambert
- MUD Development Digest Matthew R. Sheahan
- NPC AI and Learning. Michael Hohensee
- NPC AI and Learning. Travis S. Casey
- NPC AI and Learning. Michael Hohensee
- NPC AI and Learning. Alex Oren
- Getting players to cooperate (was Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects) Maddy
- Problems with admin thru consensus (long) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Problems with admin thru consensus (long) Jon A. Lambert
- Mud Games (fwd) Make Nylander
- Resource management Felix A. Croes
- Resource management clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Marian Griffith
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Adam Wiggins
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Nathan Yospe
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Chris Gray
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Jon A. Lambert
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Matt Chatterley
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Marian Griffith
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Matt Chatterley
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Maddy
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Jon A. Lambert
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Marian Griffith
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- PK again (was: Character evolution) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Adam Wiggins
- PK again (was: Character evolution) Jon A. Lambert
- (subject missing) HALE2 Root
- (subject missing) HALE2 Root
- (subject missing) HALE2 Root
- (subject missing) HALE2 Root
- (subject missing) HALE2 Root
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Maddy
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Matt Chatterley
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Miroslav Silovic
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Miroslav Silovic
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Nathan Yospe
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to coder@ibm.net
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Marian Griffith
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Marian Griffith
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Maddy
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to be playing, anyway? ##Make Nylander
- Something complete different Marian Griffith
- Something complete different Brandon J. Rickman
- Something complete different Marian Griffith
- Something complete different Brandon J. Rickman
- Something complete different Marian Griffith
- Something complete different Brandon J. Rickman
- Something complete different Matt Chatterley
- Something complete different Jon A. Lambert
- Something complete different clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Something complete different Travis S. Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Nathan Yospe
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Maddy
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Todd Lair
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Nathan Yospe
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Shawn Halpenny
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Maddy
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Brandon J. Rickman
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Brandon J. Rickman
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Michael Hohensee
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Miroslav Silovic
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Matt Chatterley
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo coder@ibm.net
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Maddy
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Matt Chatterley
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Marian Griffith
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo Travis Casey
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Michael Hohensee
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Marian Griffith
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Adam Wiggins
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Marian Griffith
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Adam Wiggins
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Jon A. Lambert
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Marian Griffith
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Marian Griffith
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Marian Griffith
- games gender bias (Affecting the world) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Travis Casey
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Travis Casey
- Usability and interface Alex Oren
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Dan Shiovitz
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Maddy
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Nathan Yospe
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Broly
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Maddy
- Usability and interface Maddy
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Matt Chatterley
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Matt Chatterley
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Shawn Halpenny
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Shawn Halpenny
- Usability and interface Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Usability and interface Koster, Raph
- Usability and interface Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Usability and interface Chris Gray
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface Maddy
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Maddy
- Usability and interface Travis Casey
- Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface Broly
- Usability and interface Nathan Yospe
- Usability and interface Marian Griffith
- Usability and interface Broly
- Usability and interface Marian Griffith
- Usability and interface Matt Chatterley
- Usability and interface Marian Griffith
- Usability and interface Matt Chatterley
- Usability and interface Broly
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Broly
- Usability and interface coder@ibm.net
- Usability and interface Jon Leonard
- Usability and interface Chris Gray
- Usability and interface Todd Lair
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Maddy
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Jon A. Lambert
- Usability and interface Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Usability and interface Koster, Raph
- Usability and interface Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface Chris Gray
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Chris Gray
- Types of game Matt Chatterley
- Types of game Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Types of game Koster, Raph
- Types of game Marian Griffith
- Types of game Matt Chatterley
- Types of game Adam Wiggins
- Types of game Travis Casey
- Types of game Travis Casey
- Types of game Marian Griffith
- Types of game coder@ibm.net
- Types of game Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Types of game clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) Nathan Yospe
- To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) Adam Wiggins
- META: To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) coder@ibm.net
- (fwd) Avios 1.2.0 clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to be Maddy
- META: To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- META: To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- META: To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- META: To flame or not to flame (was: Usability and ...) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface Koster, Raph
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface Chris Gray
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface Miroslav Silovic
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Broly
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Adam Wiggins
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- (fwd) Key, new server code in Java coder@ibm.net
- A place of my own Jon A. Lambert
- A place of my own Shawn Halpenny
- A place of my own Maddy
- A place of my own clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- A place of my own Koster, Raph
- A place of my own Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- A place of my own Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- A place of my own Marian Griffith
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- OT: Usability and interface Jon A. Lambert
- OT: Usability and interface clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- more classes (Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- more classes (Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo) Brandon J. Rickman
- more classes (Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo) clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- more classes (Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo) Brandon J. Rickman
- more classes (Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo) Matt Chatterley
- more classes (Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo) Matt Chatterley
- more classes (Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo) Marian Griffith
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Brian Price
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Travis Casey
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Adam Wiggins
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Brian Price
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Travis Casey
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Shawn Halpenny
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Adam Wiggins
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Shawn Halpenny
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Adam Wiggins
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Travis Casey
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Broly
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques coder@ibm.net
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Marian Griffith
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Brian Price
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Travis Casey
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Adam Wiggins
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Brian Price
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Brandon J. Rickman
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Brandon J. Rickman
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Travis Casey
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Brian Price
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Maddy
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques Maddy
- UI Issues: Anti-scripting techniques coder@ibm.net
- UI Issues: Dealing with Lag Brian Price
- UI Issues: Dealing with Lag clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Michael Hohensee
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Shawn Halpenny
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to Michael Hohensee
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to be playing Shawn Halpenny
- Usability and interface and who the hell is supposed to be Maddy
Previously, Adam Wiggins wrote....
>
> [Maddy:]
> > Previously, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote....
> > > Given that the availability of documentation is so restricted (not
> > > downloadable or printable), chances are that I've built my first character
> > > without a clear understanding of what will work best in the game. Ever go
> > > to a gaming convention and seen a guy running some game say "Who's the
> > > cleric?" -- and the whole group raises their hands? Or *nobody* raises his
> > > hand at all? Bad situation. Same thing when you start up a character on a
> > > MUD... you log on as a troll, and the first thing you see is thirty trolls
> > > running around. Screw that, I want to do something different. What do you
> > > mean, 'no'?
> >
> > Well I've never been to a games-con (missed the last local one) so I can't
> > really say I've seen that, but the kinds of games I play don't have clerics.
> > There might be players with healing skills, but they're refered to the
> > player with healing skills.
>
> This raises a valid issue for any mud, actually. Not sure if this is
> what Caliban was aiming at originally, but I find it incredibly annoying
> to get a character creation sequence that goes something like this:
[Script from a diku snipped *P)]
> ...etc. Besides the triteness of this example, *why* in the world couldn't
> I have found out what classes I could be first so that I could choose the
> 'right' race to be the interesting class? And *why* do I have to enter my
> character's name first, frequently before I even know what the theme of the
> mud is, or anything about what kind of character they're going to be?
Hmmm althought I've thought about most of your points, the name thing I've
definitely never thought about. What on earth would a player type when they
logged on, their email address, some kind of account number? It is an
interesting point tho.
> The morals being: character creation should ask questions in the correct order
> - general to specific; and second, documentation about character creation
> should be availible before you actually waste your time creating a character
> that you'll decide to redo an instant later now that you know what your
> choices are. This gets even more important as your character creation
> process gets longer and more involved (which I vastly prefer).
The problem with (especially races) info in character creation is you don't
want to give too much away. Listing all of race X's weaknesses means that
anyone can find them out.
> > No - they're not, but they are simple sentences. "pick up the banana from
> > inside the chest on the table and insert it quickly up the orc's bottom" is
> > the far extreme my parser can cope with. Well it can't actually handle
> > "orc's", but that is because I've not gotten around to it yet *8).
>
> Hrm, that's one of the first things I did. It's super easy and makes
> your parser look a whole lot smarter than it really is. :)
Indeed. *8)
> > The elf can repeat what the human says (ie say "Ifmmo xpsme") and because
> > the mapping from elf to human reverses almost perfectly the human will see
> > "Hello world" from the elf. Now that example is very simple and with the
> > little experiments I've fiddled with you do get mistakes when the
> > translation is repeated. Not nice mistakes like whole words transposed or
> > even the wrong word, but simple mistakes like "hello" becomes "hillo".
>
> The only thing I don't like about this is that the text output on 'say'
> looks ridiculous - not even pronouncable. We wanted each language to have
> a distinct feel to it, ala Tolkien's stuff. This has the downside of
> being unrepeatable, but I don't really mind. My experiences with
> attempting to have someone who is completely unfamiliar with a certain
> language trying to repeat something someone said in it after only hearing
> it once tell me that it's damn near impossible for them to get anywhere
> near what was actually said, especially given the way that spoken language
> of any sort generally comes out very slurred compared to the 'correct'
> pronunciation. Plus, I don't like people being able to log an entire
> conversation that they don't understand one whit of and being able to
> repeat it all without error to someone that does know the language.
Well ok - the example I gave was purely made up on the spot - I just shifted
each letter to the right so it certainly wasn't a very good example.
Something along the following is more in line with what I had in mind.
ll -> g
o -> y
he -> i
gy -> w
This would make "hello" translate to "igy" but "igy" translate to "hew".
Expand this for the dragon example and you could have.
t -> a d -> r ra -> em go -> y n -> u s -> s c -> p
m -> ar ai -> i r -> l my -> tu py -> b
the dragon is coming. -> ai remyu hes pyarheull -> i letuon is bming
I'll probably at some stage try and create a full mapping for a language to
see how well it looks.
> > I can't remember who it was, but someone mentioned sign language. Now that
> > is a perfectly acceptable way to pass on the message.
> >
> > > roar loudly
> > Bubba roars loudly.
>
> I've always wondered - how does one roar softly, exactly?
Bah *P)
> > > act like a dragon.
> > Bubba acts like a large creature with wings.
>
> Hum, now this is certainly interesting. I like this idea a lot, and not
> *too* difficult - just a list of nouns which map back to more general
> concepts. Thus 'act like a dragon' might get the same or similar output
> as 'act like a bird', depending on the viewer's perception, and perhaps
> the actor's acting ability? (Wow - a new skill!) People could sit around
> and play pictionary if they were really bored...
Well if you have a list of stats for the average X, then it should be pretty
easy. You just compare the player who is doing the acting stat's with the
average X and use that.
> > > I dislike that myself. I prefer short descriptions.
> >
> > Like...
> >
> > >look
> > You are .... [blah blah blah]
> > There is a man standing at the bar.
> > >wait
> > A tall man enters the tavern.
> >
> > I'm certainly only thinking of listing the least ambigious name.
>
> This is tricky. Up until now we've had two different names for each
> person, long and short. Long shows up when they arrive or when you
> look at the room, and short all other times.
>
> So if you don't know someone:
>
> A one-armed, bearded elf with green eyes is standing here.
> >
> The one-armed elf says, 'Hello.'
I'd like to refer to everyone consistantly all the time, although I do see
merits in providing a longer description when looking. Maybe....
A one-armed elf is here. He has a beard and is dressed in a long flowing
robe.
The one-armed elf says, 'Hello.'
> The long description uses the three most 'noticable' adjectives, while
> the short only uses one. The noun is usually the race of the person.
> Names are just tacked on as another adjective, if you know them.
> Last names are left out in the short name.
>
> Cormac Mac Art the one-armed, bearded elf is standing here.
> >
> Cormac says, 'Hello.'
>
> However, I've been considering a way to, as you say, come up with the
> minimum name necessary to avoid ambiguity. Thus, given a room full of
> elves and a human, you might see:
>
> The bearded elf says, 'blah'
> The green-eyed elf replies, 'blah'
> The human says, 'blah!'
>
> If it were a room full of humans with one elf, however, you would get:
>
> The one-armed man says, 'blah'
> The elf says, 'blah'
>
> Of course, managing this is a bit trickier than it first seems. Still
> torn on how far I want to take this. I'm definitely interested in
> minimizing unnecessary clutter (like, who gives a damn if the elf has
> green-eyes?) but on the other hand I don't want to rob too much detail,
> and I definitely do not want to make it so that you can't tell anyone apart
> without looking at each one to determine their special traits (== keywords).
I don't think eyes would be a characteristic you could use since you'd have
to look in detail at someone to see them. Height, hair colour, facial hair,
large scars, clothing are the things I'm going for. The way I've got
planned for doing it, is to (for each player) keep track of the shortest
name for everyone they can see. When someone new arrives, the new name can
be worked given the list already.
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