October 1999
- DIVE Holly Sommer
- Admin: Kanga.Nu is going down for couple hours J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: We should be back up now J C Lawrence
- Admin: Archive updates J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: DevMUD is closing J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Explanation of DevMUD vs MUD-Dev and a minor note J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: For those with an interest in patterns J C Lawrence
- ADMIN: Kanga.Nu Library -- first edition J C Lawrence
- weather Matthew Mihaly
- Alternate Character Sets (Telnet Question) Chimera
- Alternate Character Sets (Telnet Question) Travis S. Casey
- Alternate Character Sets (Telnet Question) Greg Miller
- Interesting little discussion going on at /. Nathan F Yospe
- Dan Kegel: A few notes on writing multiplayer games J C Lawrence
- Dan Kegel: A few notes on writing multiplayer games Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- Coolmud Ilya, Game Commandos
- Affect of personalizing cannon fodder mobs Lazarus
- Affect of personalizing cannon fodder mobs Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Affect of personalizing cannon fodder mobs Matthew Mihaly
- Affect of personalizing cannon fodder mobs Chris Turner
- Affect of personalizing cannon fodder mobs Colin Coghill
- Affect of personalizing cannon fodder mobs Greg Miller
- patents and muds Bruce Mitchener, Jr.
- patents and muds Sellers, Michael
- patents and muds Mik Clarke
- patents and muds Cynbe ru Taren
- patents and muds Joe Andrieu
- patents and muds Koster, Raph
- patents and muds Cynbe ru Taren
- Pueblo Par Winzell
- Library updates J C Lawrence
- Pueblo Mik Clarke
- patents and muds Richard Bartle
- patents and muds Scott Boding
- patents and muds Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- patents and muds Joel Kelso
- patents and muds Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- patents and muds Mik Clarke
- patents and muds Mik Clarke
- Cannon fodder mobs alternatives Aaron
- Patent problems Richard Bartle
- History of online gaming Koster, Raph
- historians Matthew Mihaly
- historians Laurel Fan
- historians Matthew Mihaly
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Laurel Fan wrote:
> Excerpts from muddev: 30-Oct-99 [MUD-Dev] historians by Matthew
> Mihaly@best.com
> > Hmm, I suppose I can just have the God manage a group of dedicated
> > historians, with various ones chosen from each side. The god could then
> > try to sort out some semblance of the truth by getting versions of it from
> > his followers, who would ideally be from various factions in the game.
> > This doesn't seem like a fantastically good solution to me, however, and
> > I'd be interested in hearing others.
>
> I've never actually done this, so this is just speculation on my part...
>
> In the real world, historians disagree about what really happened, and
> arguing about this is part of being a historian. Of course, any
> individual will tend to see things from "their" side of things. So as
> an IC-ish thing, I think multiple historians wouldn't be a bad idea,
> especially if some events are described from multiple points of view.
> If you have kingdoms or religious groups, perhaps these could appoint
> their own "official" historians..
Sure, historians disagree, which is why I kept making sure I said that I
wanted people reasonable objective rather than completely objective. The
problem with encouraging history that is explicitly from one, very biased
viewpoint, is that you end up with an unfocused history of the world,
which confuses people. It's been my experience that mudders love a good,
solid history, but that they also like it to be neatly laid out for them.
Further, a few players have written extensive personal histories, some of
which I had to say 'no' to, because they were just blatant attempts ti
discredit other organizations by claiming that said organizations had
committed nasty horrible crimes against them as children, etc (none of
which ever happened). I guess I'd rather the history thing didn't turn
into PR battle between factions within the game (happens enough as it
is).
--matt - historians Laurel Fan
- historians Philip Loguinov -- Draymoor
- historians Matthew Mihaly
- historians Marian Griffith
- historians Mik Clarke
- historians J C Lawrence
- historians J C Lawrence
- historians Matthew Mihaly
- historians cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
- historians Matthew Mihaly