April 1999
- In-Game Languages Eli Stevens {KiZurich}
- In-Game Languages Per Vognsen
- In-Game Languages Chris Gray
- In-Game Languages Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- In-Game Languages Eli Stevens {KiZurich}
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- In-Game Languages Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- In-Game Languages Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- In-Game Languages Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- In-Game Languages Andrew Ritchie
- In-Game Languages Matthew D. Fuller
- In-Game Languages adam@treyarch.com
- forward: consistency Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Confined Gameworld Ling
- Confined Gameworld Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Confined Gameworld Richard Woolcock
- Confined Gameworld Eli Stevens {KiZurich}
- Confined Gameworld The Wildman
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- target audience Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- target audience Marc Bowden
- Fw: Self-organizing worlds (was: Elder Games) Kylotan
- Fw: Self-organizing worlds (was: Elder Games) Matthew Mihaly
- ScryMUD 1.8.11 released. Ben Greear
- Mud driver architecture info B. Scott Boding
- Blending graphics with text u1391470
- Blending graphics with text Laurel Fan
- Blending graphics with text Kylotan
- Blending graphics with text Chris Gray
- Blending graphics with text J C Lawrence
- Blending graphics with text Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Blending graphics with text Chris Gray
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- Blending graphics with text Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Blending graphics with text Mik Clarke
- Blending graphics with text u1391470
- Blending graphics with text claw@kanga.nu
- Blending graphics with text Alex Stewart
- Blending graphics with text J C Lawrence
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:32:16 -0400 (EDT)
u1391470 <u1391470@csi.uottawa.ca> wrote:
> Each position in the zone is associated with a room (for flags
> etc), because of memory constraints. Given the number of
> "coordinates" (ie. unique locations a person can move within the
> world), we found it to be too memory intensive for each to have
> its own structure.
The normal solution to this is to farm the structures out to disk
via a database or persistent store. Both ways have advantages. The
savings over having to keep everything in RAM (even with VM and
Linux's VM system ain't too wonderful) can be considerable.
> Of course, by removing all/most text (the more graphics we are
> able to create, the less text we would need), we are "moving away"
> from the whole concept of a mud, regardless of our base.
Is a MUD necessarily text based?
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