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
- historians Laurel Fan
- historians Philip Loguinov -- Draymoor
- historians Matthew Mihaly
- historians Marian Griffith
- historians Mik Clarke
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..
You could almost use a set of history boards (or maybe a web page with
some clever cgi) to allow each faction to maintain its own annals.
The only tricky bit would be to have some consistency of dating,
although this could be left for later historians to argue over.
Multiple contradictory versions of events, especially significant
events, are always good to start new arguments.
While I think this approach will give you realisitc history, it will
not be a complete, correct and unbiased.
In one of Barry Hughearts books, there's a minor Chinese diety known
as 'The Recorder of Things Strange'. Might be worth having a minor
god that accepts history submissions from whoever feels like writing
them and files them all (probably on a web page somewhere). Hopefully
historians (maybe even warring ones) will emerge.
Mik - historians J C Lawrence
- historians J C Lawrence
- historians cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
- historians Matthew Mihaly