August 1998
- Affordances and social method (Was: Wired Jon A. Lambert
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** Jon A. Lambert
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** John Bertoglio
- (Fwd) **NOTICE REGARDING YOUR SEARCHLIGHT SOFTWARE** Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- OT: BBSs, s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer Jon A. Lambert
- Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- (fwd) "Smart" monsters Nathan Fenenga Yospe
- Interesting poll Koster, Raph
- Interesting poll John Bertoglio
- Milgram experiment (was WIRED: Kilers have more fun) Mike Sellers
- Implementing god. quzah
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. J C Lawrence
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Koster, Raph
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Koster, Raph
- Implementing god. J C Lawrence
- Implementing god. Marian Griffith
- Implementing god. Adam J. Thornton
- Implementing god. Andy Cink
- Blender: free version J C Lawrence
- Blender: free version J C Lawrence
- Blender: free version Adam Wiggins
- UOL/Linux client URLs J C Lawrence
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library J C Lawrence
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Chris Gray
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Chris Gray
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Nathan F Yospe
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library ##Make Nylander
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Adam J. Thornton
- Socket-Script: Socket-capabable script language and matching library Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Why threading? (Was: Output Classification Notes) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Why threading? (Was: Output Classification Notes) J C Lawrence
- Secrets of the Game Designers s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- 3D World Models Leach, Brad BA
- 3D World Models S. Patrick Gallaty
- Toba Java->C Adam J. Thornton
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Franklyn Colebrooke, Jr.
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam J. Thornton
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Leach, Brad BA
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Holly Sommer
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Nathan F Yospe
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Holly Sommer
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch T. Alexander Popiel
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Matt Chatterley
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Ross Nicoll
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch J C Lawrence
- [IDEAS] Starting from scratch Adam Wiggins
- Question regarding Java threads Jon A. Lambert
- Question regarding Java threads Chris Gray
- Question regarding Java threads Vadim Tkachenko
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Question regarding Java threads J C Lawrence
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Question regarding Java threads Jon A. Lambert
- Question regarding Java threads Chris Gray
- Question regarding Java threads Matt Chatterley
- Question regarding Java threads Ben Greear
- Protocols Vadim Tkachenko
- Events s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- after the plague: mud report S. Patrick Gallaty
- after the plague: mud report quzah
- after the plague: mud report Adam Wiggins
- after the plague: mud report Ling
- Object Storage Fact Book, Release 4.0 (fwd) Nathan F Yospe
- Affordances and social method (Was: Wire d Magazine...) J C Lawrence
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: J C Lawrence
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: kamikaze@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate J C Lawrence
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Koster, Raph
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Chris Gray
- Black Isle's Baldur's Gate Koster, Raph
- 208.240.161.41 Adam J. Thornton
- 208.240.161.41 Vadim Tkachenko
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Chris Gray
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Vadim Tkachenko
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Adam Wiggins
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Robert Woods
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Richard Woolcock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Richard Woolcock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev T. Alexander Popiel
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Mike Sellers
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Michael Hohensee
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev John Bertoglio
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev quzah
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Chris Gray
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Scatter
- ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev J C Lawrence
- Adverts in email on the list. Ben Greear
- Adverts in email on the list. quzah
- Adverts in email on the list. Jon A. Lambert
- Adverts in email on the list. Holly Sommer
- Adverts in email on the list. Vadim Tkachenko
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Vadim Tkachenko
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- lurker emerges James Wilson
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Adam J. Thornton
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges James Wilson
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Ben Greear
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges Vadim Tkachenko
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- lurker emerges Petri Virkkula
- lurker emerges Chris Gray
- lurker emerges J C Lawrence
- Adverts in email on the list. Chris Gray
- Fw: lurker emerges James Wilson
- Fw: lurker emerges T. Alexander Popiel
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Neat surrealistic graphical mudclients in Java? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Chris Gray
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. J C Lawrence
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Adam J. Thornton
- Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Ben Greear
- META/ADMIN: ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Mike Sellers
- META/ADMIN: ADMIN: Advertising on MUD-Dev Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Rule #3 S. Patrick Gallaty
- OT: Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Shawn Halpenny
- OT: Ethernet NICS, maximum connections..mud testing. Vadim Tkachenko
- META: List combat character and racial memory (was Re: Chris Gray
- List of rules suggestionbox Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- List of rules suggestionbox Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges) James Wilson
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges Jon A. Lambert
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges James Wilson
- async i/o and threads (was: lurker emerges Jon A. Lambert
- Amoeba: Distributed OS release J C Lawrence
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- clients anyone?... James Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... Adam J. Thornton
- clients anyone?... Adam Wiggins
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- clients anyone?... J C Lawrence
- clients anyone?... Andrew Wilson
- Re:Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- ADMIN: Over quoting (again) J C Lawrence
- JASSS: The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation J C Lawrence
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Leach, Brad BA
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout quzah
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Koster, Raph
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Koster, Raph
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Brandon J. Rickman
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout quzah
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Marian Griffith
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout Damion Schubert
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout J C Lawrence
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout J C Lawrence
- LinuxThreads and SIGUSR1 (Ref: [MUD-Dev]) Adam J. Thornton
- Eye movement. quzah
- Eye movement. James Wilson
- Eye movement. quzah
- Eye movement. S. Patrick Gallaty
- Eye movement. T. Alexander Popiel
- Eye movement. Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- OGR: Ion Storm's Witchboy talks about the functionality of enemy AI. J C Lawrence
- OGR: Ion Storm's Witchboy talks about the functionality of enemy AI. s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Methods to Reduce Ecological Wipeout (fwd) Marc Hernandez
- avoiding ecological wipeout Laurel Fan
- Passing file descriptors to other processes Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- Yet another update on threads and signals Chris Gray
- Yet another update on threads and signals Adam J. Thornton
- OT: access s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Affordances and social method cat
- Affordances and social method cat
- Affordances and social method Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Affordances and social method Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Missing MUD-Dev post (fwd) Dr. Cat
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Koster, Raph
- Affordances and social method Koster, Raph
- Marian's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marian's Tailor Problem Brandon Cline
- Marian's Tailor Problem Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Marian's Tailor Problem Brandon Cline
- Marian's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marian's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marian's Tailor Problem Chris Gray
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Koster, Raph
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Mike Sellers
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Marian Griffith
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Nathan F Yospe
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Oliver Jowett
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Jon Leonard
- Question for the list (Semi-OT) Ben Greear
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Jon A. Lambert
- Private Affordances and social method Mike Sellers
- Private Affordances and social method Marian Griffith
- Private Affordances and social method Mike Sellers
- FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun S. Patrick Gallaty
- free XML Parser (was clients anyone?...) James Wilson
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Jon A. Lambert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Koster, Raph
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers S. Patrick Gallaty
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers quzah
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers James Wilson
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Damion Schubert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers J C Lawrence
- UBE/high: UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Dr. Cat
- Marion's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Marion's Tailor Problem Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Marion's Tailor Problem jwilson@rochester.rr.com
- Marion's Tailor Problem Travis Casey
- Marion's Tailor Problem Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Marion's Tailor Problem Adam J. Thornton
- Marion's Tailor Problem Travis S. Casey
- Marion's Tailor Problem Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Marion's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Marion's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marion's Tailor Problem Damion Schubert
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem Adam Wiggins
- Marion's Tailor Problem quzah
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem J C Lawrence
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marion's Tailor Problem Matthew R. Sheahan
- Marion's Tailor Problem quzah
- Marion's Tailor Problem Matthew R. Sheahan
- Marion's Tailor Problem Koster, Raph
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem J C Lawrence
- Marion's Tailor Problem Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Marion's Tailor Problem Marian Griffith
- Slightly-OT: RPG Mapping Tool Holly Sommer
- UBE/high: UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Scatter
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Scatter
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Brandon J. Rickman
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Damion Schubert
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers quzah
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Marian Griffith
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Adam Wiggins
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Travis Casey
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Brandon J. Rickman
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers Koster, Raph
- Thoughts on Marian's Tailor Problem s001gmu@nova.wright.edu
- Standard Mud Room Format? plateau
- Standard Mud Room Format? T. Alexander Popiel
- Standard Mud Room Format? Michael.Willey@abnamro.com
- Standard Mud Room Format? J C Lawrence
- Standard Mud Room Format? Adam J. Thornton
- Standard Mud Room Format? Holly Sommer
- Standard Mud Room Format? Matthew R. Sheahan
- Standard Mud Room Format? Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Standard Mud Room Format? Scatter
- Tangent to the Tailor Marc Bowden
- PerLDAP, usefull for your perl-mud? quzah
- UBE/high: Affordances and social method Dr. Cat
- UBE/high: FW: UBE/high: W IRED: Kilers have more fun Dr. Cat
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. J C Lawrence
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. Adam J. Thornton
- Article: A Summary of Principles for User-Interface Design. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Sockets permanently in CLOSE_WAIT state. (fwd) Oliver Jowett
- Fw: BlackSquad Releases File Formats Damion Schubert
- Revenants (Marion's Tailor Problem) Damion Schubert
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... J C Lawrence
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... J C Lawrence
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Marc Hernandez
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Ben Greear
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Greg Munt
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Ben Greear
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Adam Wiggins
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... quzah
- Finer points of Telnet programming ... Greg Munt
- [off-topic] Email Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Minimal MUD-kernel (was Finer points of Telnet programming ...) Niklas Elmqvist
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] pomales
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
- Modular MUD D. B. Brown
- Modular MUD quzah
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD quzah
- Modular MUD J C Lawrence
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- Modular MUD Holly Sommer
- Modular MUD Adam J. Thornton
- Modular MUD Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Modular MUD Vadim Tkachenko
- Modular MUD John Bertoglio
- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet progra Jon A. Lambert
- OS Wars [Was: Modular MUD] Jynx {Wyrm / Tygr / Myth} Ryn
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- Modular MUD [Was:Finer points of Telnet programming ...] Chris Gray
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In article <35e94634.5921764@newshost.micro.ti.com>, lewiszephyr@hotmail.com says...
>>Basically, everytime you look, you notice something new. The ability to
>>consider should determine how much info you can notice on a given
>>consider, so someone who's not too bright may only notice one thing at a
>>time, but others can notice even discreet mannerisms.
>
>and on this line..... err well, Consider could be a skill.... a
>skill that is not able to be maxed.... the more you use it the
>better you are at it. with bonus for consider a similar
>class/guild/skill and negatives on ones you have no idea about.
Well, let me give a possible system a shot.
There are several factors to this issue: knowledge of an area, skills
of observation, skills of deduction and alertness at the time of
consideration.
Knowledge in an area determines how much a person can tell about an
individual's skills. Proficiency is irrelevant because of the fact
that one does not have to be skilled in an area in order to be capable
of recognising talent; if one is a student of a great fighter one will
have seen what great fighters look like even if one is not one of them.
Knowledge itself will only get a person so far; knowledge will increase
observation for certain individuals in that to a person more experienced
in a field, a feature that is rather obvious within the field will stand
out more to the person.
Skills of observation are an important factor because without them, even
a person knowledgeable in the relevant area will only notice the very
obvious features. People who are observant are more prone to notice
minute details. As skills of observation grow, not only does one notice
more detail but also the detail that is important above all. Hence, the
more time a person spends carefully observing things and situations, the
more their skills of observation will grow and the better they will be
able to see minute features, even if they are not able to see the full
relevance of them.
Skills of deduction are also important because everyone is not
automatically Sherlock Holmes; if one is the student of fighting and one
examines a man on the street who looks fairly burly and has mud and
straw on his shoes, one might make the assumption that he is a fighter and
has returned from a battle; however, someone with more skills of deduction
might automatically see past the surface and because of their deductive
interest, examine the straw and see that this person is in fact a field
worker. A player only sees what is given to him by his character. If
the character is able to deduce things better, the player will receive
the information that comes from this deduction.
Alertness at the time is only a small factor unless a person is extremely
fatigued. One must remember that observation and deduction are somewhat
weakened at times of drunkenness, fatigue, weakness, hunger, and even
disinterest and that even if a person tells his character to observe
carefully, no rational observation can be made whilst in such states.
So we have a basic set of three traits (the fourth is a transient state)
that factor into any observation of a person. They are all codependent;
knowledge of an area will not be relevant unless a person has skills
of observation and not much inference can be made from the observation
even when a person has knowledge of an area without deductive skills,
observation is irrelevant unless a person has knowledge and deductive
skills with which to apply the gathered information, and deduction is
not relevant unless the person has knowledge to draw upon and
observational skills with which to obtain evidence.
We may divide the process of examination into two parts: basic
observation and deduction. Observation is fed by three factors:
observational skill, external knowledge that makes some features obvious,
and temporary alertness. Deduction is fed by four factors: deductive
skills, external knowledge, evidence gained from the observatory stage,
and temporary alertness. When deduction leads the character to posit
a question that can obviously be answered by observation, the observational
stage is repeated with the deductive result as an added factor. The
following diagram represents the complete flow:
+-------------+
| Knowledge | -------+-----> +-------------------+
+-------------+ +-|-----> | 1. Observation | <-+
| |+----> +-------------------+ |
+-----------------+ | || | |
| Observational | -+ || \./ |
| Skill | ++----> +-------------------+ |
+-----------------+ +----> | 2. Deduction | --+
|+---> +-------------------+
+-------------+ ||
| Deductive | ---------+ Recycle back to 1 only
| Skill | | if deduction requires
+-------------+ | further observation.
|
+-------------+ |
| Alertness | --------+
+-------------+
What feeds into the sources remains to be examined.
Knowledge is developed through proficiency in or exposure to certain
areas.
Observational skill, because it is a composite of all ability to observe,
et cetera, can be ascertained by a record of how much "practice" the
character has at observing. For instance, a character might gain slightly
more observatory skill if he or she examines more things, takes more time
to read things, 'considers' more people, et cetera.
Deductive skill can be ascertained by a record of practice as well. Those
who experiment more with their environment, find more concealed areas and
objects, and use more creative solutions for killing can be considered to
have more deductive skill.
Alertness can be determined by a combination of simple factors such as
drunkenness, weariness, and hunger, and the more complicated factor of
disinterest, which can be determined by comparing fields of specialisation
of the object of their examination and their selves.
When combining sources in the observatory stage, we must basically make a
list of traits of the examined person and put them in order of noticeability.
This list is affected by the sources. In order to rank the traits, it is
possible to use the following process for each trait: first, compare the
professional obviousness of the trait with the knowledge of the examiner in
that field and make it necessarily obvious if they match; second, compare
the sensual obviousness of a trait with the observational skill of the
examiner and make it necessarily obvious if they match; third, compare the
sensual obviousness of the trait with the alertness of the examiner, and if
the alertness is too low negate the previous findings and make the trait
nonobvious; fourth, compare the sensual obviousness of the trait to the
novelty of the trait to the examiner, and if the trait is sensually obvious
and the novelty is high-range, declare the trait novel and therefore obvious.
The list of obvious traits that is output to the deductive stage must be only
a few of the traits and a few of their details, and only those that are in
a high range of obviousness.
The deductive stage uses the list of obvious traits found in the observatory
stage. For each trait, given hypothetical 0-10 scales of deductive
obviousness of the trait, professional level of the trait, deductive skill
of the character and professional skill in that area of the character, we
may use the following process:
result = ( [character's knowledge] - [professional level of trait] if
[professional level of trait] < [character's knowledge] ) +
( [character's deductive skill] - [deductive level of trait] if
[deductive level of trait] < [character's deductive skill] )
This results in a number which provides exactly how much the character will
know about each trait. A different description must be written for results,
but only one for each degree of vagary, so if something is made to be
fairly obvious one might only have to write one or two descriptions. However
it would also be a good idea to write an extension of descriptions for the
professional level, because though professional and deductive combine for the
deductive aspect, the professional aspect remains pure. In addition, we may
subtract some kind of small number from the eventual result based upon
lack of alertness.
There is also an issue as to the meaning of a combination of traits, for
instance the connection between straw on a person's boots and dirt in their
fingernails. However, these connections can be viewed as traits in
themselves and indeed programmed in such a way. A special marker might be
defined that makes the code recycle back to the observational stage with
a switch set on if the character reaches a deductive degree that triggers
re-examination of certain traits so that they may be added to the obvious
traits list. The ultimate output would be the combination of deductive
outputs from every obvious traits list, unless already stated or
unimportant.
In order to ensure growth with each examination of a person, one might
implement the system so that each examination adds to knowledge in areas
(possibly by making each examinable person an "area of knowledge") and
deductive and observational skill.
Anyway, there is probably no one who wants to bother implementing a system
so comprehensive for one simple command, but I thought I would post my
ideas on the current discussion. Please tell me what you think of all this.
-Karzan.
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