February 1999
- client images Chris Gray
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. Ben Greear
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. Adam Wiggins
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. Chris Gray
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. Chris Gray
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. T. Alexander Popiel
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. Richard Woolcock
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers in general. Marc Hernandez
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers i Chris Gray
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers i Jon A. Lambert
- Question on c++ switch optimization, and parsers i Chris Gray
- optimizing code diablo@best.com
- optimizing code Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- optimizing code Chris Gray
- code profiling Chris Gray
- World-file parsing and RTTI? The Arrow
- World-file parsing and RTTI? Mark Gritter
- pet peeves diablo@best.com
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- pet peeves Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- pet peeves Marc Bowden
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- pet peeves Koster, Raph
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- pet peeves Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- pet peeves Kristen Koster
- pet peeves Caliban Tiresias Darklock
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- pet peeves Wes Connell
- pet peeves J C Lawrence
- pet peeves Matthew Mihaly
- pet peeves Ling
- pet peeves Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- pet peeves Matthew Mihaly
- pet peeves Ola Fosheim Grøstad
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- pet peeves David Bennett
- pet peeves Robert Woods
- pet peeves Wes Connell
- pet peeves Travis S. Casey
- pet peeves Matthew Mihaly
- pet peeves Neerenberg, AaronX
- pet peeves greg
- pet peeves Richard Woolcock
- pet peeves J C Lawrence
- pet peeves Martin Keegan
- pet peeves Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- pet peeves J C Lawrence
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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Kristen Koster wrote:
>
> I personally love the people who log on for the first time saying, "I love
> this place! Can I build here?" Our standard answer is "Feel free to propose
> and area once you reach level 45."
I started this thread out of annoyance with some player from some mud
(Dragon Realms or something?) that I've not heard of who came on yesterday
(he wasn't even a newbie, he had played for 40 hours or so) and asked me
to be an immortal. This right away got my back up, as we do not have
"immortals" (I don't like the term immortal, wiz, imp, etc. I like God.
None of those previous words are mentioned anywhere in our mythology, so I
wouldn't expect players to use them.) When players ask me this question,
I'm not even sure how to respond, as it is so rudely presumptuous. I
wouldn't walk into another person's business and say, "Hi there, mind if I
help you run this?" Generally, I just say, "No", which is what I did this
time.
The player kept on at it, asking me <slip into whiny mode>, "But why?", so
I made up a reason. I told him he was too young irl (he was 17 or so I
think). He kept pestering me, and finally I turned him into a smoking pile
of ash. He then started telling the other players what an a**hole I am,
etc etc and as I knew this person would never be a customer, I deleted him
(I have no tolerance for people who are not and never will be customers
who cause trouble of any sort.) He brought on a second and continued, so I
deleted both of his seconds. He then started logging on newbies to try and
shout rude things, so I told him that he was now banned from Achaea and
that if he logged on again, I'd alert his ISP that he was harrassing us.
So then some guy claiming to be the creator of some mud that this fellow
is an "imm" on logged on and immediately sent a tell to me saying, "So I
hear you are having trouble with one of my immortals?" I replied in-role
and told him that it was preposterous that an 18-year old human male would
"have" immortal beings to serve him. He carried on out-of-role, I carried
on in-role. He eventually gave up, but if he wanted to talk to me, he
doomed himself right away with his first statement.
As Caliban pointed out, and as I said before, I don't see why I should
care if someone logs on and claims (or is) an admin on another mud. I know
it's snooty of me, but if I were, say, Paul Theroux, and some hack no-name
writer phoned me up wanting to talk shop, I'd have just as little interest
in talking to him as I do in talking to a faceless supposed mud admin
whose talents I know nothing of (and who I automatically presume to have
no talent, given the horrid quality of most muds). I'm not claiming to be
the mud-world equivalent of Paul Theroux incidentally. I was just using
that as an example.
The basic issue to me is that when you go into someone elses world, you
are a nobody, just like everyone else. This especially holds in the case
of a world with any sort of emphasis on roleplaying. If another admin
really wants to talk to me, he or she could happily e-mail me an
introduction and ask if it would be ok to talk to me in the game. I would
extend that courtesy to any admin that I wanted to talk to and I don't
think it is too much to ask of other people. It should have been
especially obvious to this guy that I wasn't interested in his OOC
babbling when I replied to his first statement (which he had to have known
I realized was not an in-role statement) with an in-role statement.
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- pet peeves Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- pet peeves Travis S. Casey
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- pet peeves Benjamin D. Wiechel
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- Horror Themed Muds [was CthulhuMud Driver 6] Christopher Allen
- Horror Themed Muds [was CthulhuMud Driver 6] Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Horror Themed Muds [was CthulhuMud Driver 6] Mik Clarke
- CthulhuMud Driver 6 Mik Clarke
- CthulhuMud Driver 6 J C Lawrence
- Mathengine Ling
- Mathengine Apocalypse
- Website update Koster, Raph
- Influential muds Koster, Raph
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- Influential muds Koster, Raph
- Influential muds Mik Clarke
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- State of the art? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
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- State of the art? Martin Keegan
- State of the art? David Bennett
- State of the art? Martin Keegan
- State of the art? Andy Cink
- State of the art? J C Lawrence
- State of the art? David Bennett
- State of the art? Matthew Mihaly
- State of the art? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- State of the art? Matthew Mihaly
- State of the art? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- State of the art? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- State of the art? J C Lawrence
- State of the art? Matthew Mihaly
- State of the art? Mik Clarke
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- The Terrorist Class Mik Clarke
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