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
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface and Maddy
- War and language (Was: Usability and interface and who Matt Chatterley
- Focus (Was: Usability and interface and who the hell is suppo) Matt Chatterley
- Usability and interface and who the hell is suppon Adam Wiggins
- Balance of Character Power Jon A. Lambert
- Balance of Character Power clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Balance of Character Power Travis Casey
- Balance of Character Power Shawn Halpenny
- What to do with the first summary? Marian Griffith
- NPC AI Brian Price
- Reusable plots for quests Brian Price
- Reusable plots for quests clawrenc@cup.hp.com
- Reusable plots for quests Brian Price
- Reusable plots for quests Travis Casey
- Reusable plots for quests Brian Price
- Reusable plots for quests Travis Casey
- Reusable plots for quests Brandon J. Rickman
- Reusable plots for quests Travis Casey
- Reusable plots for quests Adam Wiggins
- Reusable plots for quests coder@ibm.net
- Reusable plots for quests Travis S. Casey
- Reusable plots for quests coder@ibm.net
- Reusable plots for quests Adam Wiggins
- Reusable plots for quests coder@ibm.net
- Reusable plots for quests Travis S. Casey
- Reusable plots for quests coder@ibm.net
- Reusable plots for quests Derrick Jones
- Stranger in a Strange Land (was Usability and interface and Maddy
Previously, clawrenc@cup.hp.com wrote....
> In <c=US%a=_%pê%l=MOLACH-970925223940Z-13404@molach.origin.ea.com>,
> on 09/25/97
> at 08:36 PM, "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@origin.ea.com> said:
>
> >On Thursday, September 25, 1997 3:17 AM, clawrenc@cup.hp.com wrote:
> >>The primary effect I see of removing the WHO command, and removing
> >> the global namespace I do both) is that of removing the sense of the
> >> individual players as being a member of a larger group of players
> >> all playing the same game. It removes the sense of an instant social
> >> context, "All of us on the who list are players," and with the
> >> removal of the global namespace removes even the pretense of baing
> >> able to place oneself in any even remote sort of social relevance as
> >> a new player. The result is that it tends to devolve them all into
> >> confusing world without clear ability to identify or locate friends
> >> or allies, or even know who or what might be any of these things.
>
> >Yes, yes, yes. Couldn't agree more. The issue, once you have settled
> >for not having a global namespace, as JCL terms it, is providing a
> >rich social context quickly and easily without it.
>
> A quick addendum here as some newer members may not realise the
> definition of "no global namespace" as above.
>
> I have no global namespace (very minor exeptions). This means that
> there are no objects that have names that everybody knows. While you
> character may have a name that you gave it, nobody else will know that
> name, and in fact has no requirement to use that name, Instead they
> may assign whatever name they wish to you, just as you may "name" them
> however you wish. The result is that a name assignment is now private
> to the character that assigned the name. Thus I may know a certain
> character as "bubba", you may know his as "Boffo", and other as
> "Bernie". (This is generically known as the "Silke effect" after a
> fictional character who was fond of name games.)
>
> Name can be assigned to more than just other characters, Players
> can name objects, rocks, houses, locations, trees, etc freely. Of
> course those names are private to them -- so other players can assign
> different names or no names at at should they wish.
>
> The end result is that upon re-encoutering the named object, the
> name you have assigned to that object is substituted instead of the
> generic description of that object. This can result in dialogues as
> follows:
What if a player wanders about and names everything he sees? Do you have
some kind of decay on object/names that players haven't seen for a while,
because otherwise you'd end up with a lot of object/name entries?
> >Only a few are
> >character based--largely the ones in the category I call "context
> >embellishment." But how many of these are truly critical to your
> >social experience? Remember, mud social bonds evolve from the
> >fictional towards real social bonds; if you have good community ties
> >they will be OOC ties, not IC ties.
>
> While true, I think this misses the point. Without any social context a
> character will be lost, and only able to play at a severely reduced
> capacity. With no social context a player is essentially playing a
> glorified Zork. Given that a player has no way to causitively locate or
> isolate other players anywhere in the game (cf above mention of your
> graphical scope advantage), I see this as a real problem.
[Snip - example of newbie lostness]
> Ignoring the tritenesses, its almost a classical nightmare.
Yup - this could definitely be a problem but I can think of several ways of
at least allievating the problem.
Firstly in the above example you're only limited to being able to see what
is in the current room. If 'look' displayed what you could see in the whole
area you were in, you could at least follow the troll, or see other "people"
with which you could try and talk to. In fact it could almost be worth
putting a mobile near where players start that is overly friendly to
newbies.
Secondly starting players in a nice safe environment where they're unlikely
to get killed would probably help.
> >It wandered into the topic of newbie areas,
> >training wheels, and the like, and basically ended up, i think, at
> >the opinion that ifyou can provide such an experience to people
> >crafted well enough that they do not feel they are being channeled,
> >it can be successful. But if they start to sense channeling and
> >restrictions, they rebel...
>
> I'd question if the rebellion really matters if the players know that they
> can always retreat back to the guide whenever they want. The key then
> would seem to be able to pick up on a guide at any point on his tour. The
> guides then really become randomly tappable references rather than a fixed
> tour.
Hmm. The problem with newbie area, is that all the ones I've seen are
linear. A guide (see my comment above) is probably a good idea. The thing
is, is that you don't want the newbies thinking that the guide is a guide,
more like a very friendly person who is offering to show them around.
Rather than the guide saying "Ok - lets go this way" the guide could also
follow the newbie around, pointing out places of interest.
> Sure, go rebel. Go do your own thing. When you want to find out more
> about the basic structure, come back and we'll continue from whereever you
> want.
You'd still need some kind of linear framework?
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