May 1999

• Object server. Quzah [softhome]
• Censorship & Its Impact On World Immersion J C Lawrence
• OT: Ethics v Law Greg Munt
• Virtual v Artificial Worlds Greg Munt
• • Virtual v Artificial Worlds Matthew Mihaly
• Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Wes Connell
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? David Bennett
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Koster, Raph
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Greg Munt
  • Custom Server Roll Call? The Arrow
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Alex Stewart
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Nathan F Yospe
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
          • • Custom Server Roll Call? Matthew Mihaly
            • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
            • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
            • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Gray
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Marc Hernandez
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Greg Munt
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Matthew Mihaly
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? J C Lawrence
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Ling
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Jon A. Lambert
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Niklas Elmqvist
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Gray
      • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Gray
        • • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
          • • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Gray
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    • Custom Server Roll Call? J C Lawrence
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Marc Hernandez
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jo Dillon
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      • Custom Server Roll Call? Marc Hernandez
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
        • • Custom Server Roll Call? Marc Hernandez
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Adam Wiggins
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Matthew Mihaly
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
    • Custom Server Roll Call? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? claw@kanga.nu
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Emil Eifrem
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Chris Turner
  • Custom Server Roll Call? Ling
  • • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    • • Custom Server Roll Call? Jay Carlson
      • • Custom Server Roll Call? Caliban Tiresias Darklock
      • Custom Server Roll Call? Ling
• Interesting dilemma Peck, Matthew x96724c1
• • Interesting dilemma Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • Interesting dilemma Quzah [softhome]
  • Interesting dilemma Brandon A Downey
  • Interesting dilemma Shawn Halpenny
  • • Interesting dilemma Matthew Mihaly
  • Interesting dilemma Benjamin D. Wiechel
  • Interesting dilemma Koster, Raph
  • Interesting dilemma Wes Connell
  • Interesting dilemma Mattias Lönnqvist
  • Interesting dilemma Mik Clarke
  • Interesting dilemma Joel Kelso
  • Interesting dilemma Ronan Farrell
• Harvey's Rules of Immship John Hopson
• Confiscating items (Interesting dilemma) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• AW: Interesting dilemma Hofbauer Heinz
• Virtual Property J C Lawrence
• • Virtual Property Koster, Raph
  • • Virtual Property Jon A. Lambert
• Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Ben Greear
• • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Mik Clarke
  • • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Ben Greear
    • • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? J C Lawrence
      • • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Ben Greear
        • • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Sunny Gulati
  • Autogenerating maps from muds using cardinal directions for exits? Jon A. Lambert
• Discussion of large server IO handling desing J C Lawrence
• Planes of existance Quzah [softhome]
• • Planes of existance Greg Munt
  • • Planes of existance Quzah [softhome]
    • Planes of existance Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    • • Planes of existance Ben Greear
      • • Planes of existance Caliban Tiresias Darklock
      • Planes of existance Greg Munt
      • • Planes of existance T. Alexander Popiel
        • • Planes of existance Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • Planes of existance Matthew Mihaly
• Dynamically changing room descriptions Ronan Farrell
• • Dynamically changing room descriptions Mik Clarke
  • Dynamically changing room descriptions Ben Greear
  • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Koster, Raph
    • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Richard Bartle
      • Dynamically changing room descriptions Matthew Mihaly
  • Dynamically changing room descriptions Travis Casey
  • Dynamically changing room descriptions Travis Casey
  • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • Dynamically changing room descriptions Jon A. Lambert
    • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      • Dynamically changing room descriptions Eli Stevens {KiZurich/GreySylk}
        On Sun, 16 May 1999, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
        >
        > There are four persons seated at a card table playing hearts surrounded
        > by a crowd of onlookers, say twenty or so. One of the players, myself,
        > has a mouse on his shoulder. Among the crowd is a gorgeous red-head of
        > amazon-like proportions, a twelve foot giant with a horsefly on his nose,
        > and a three foot gnome. The entire party is located in the dusty main
        > street of a small village. On the north side of the street is a cafe
        > with a sign in the window advertising 'All you can eat for 3 grotzees'.
        > A waitress gazes out of the greasy window. On the south side of the
        > street is a four-story hotel. Walking on the hotel's third-story ledge
        > is a darkly-dressed cat burglar. The village is surrounded by a 20 ft.
        > wooden palisade; and nestled within snow covered mountains.
        >
        > Challenge:
        > Come up with a method of describing this scene from the vantage point of
        > myself, the fly, the giant, the mouse, the gnome, the waitress and the
        > cat-burglar.
        >
        > Such a method might take into account distance perception, foreground
        > to background, elevation, size, and ATTENTION.
        >
        > Any of the card players would be tuned into seeing the hand they are
        > holding, the table, and the three other players in good detail. The
        > crowd as a whole might form the blurry backdrop, with some noticeable
        > standouts. I'd most likely not miss Xena's red-headed sister. ;)
        >
        > The waitress would see a blurred vision of a crowd gathered in the
        > street, probably the least perceptive of the humanoids.
        >
        > The cat burglar might have the best perspective of all, yet miss the
        > standouts in the crowd (giant and red-head) and the small mouse and fly.
        > Yet the cat burglar might be way to preoccupied with negotiating the
        > ledge to notice much at all, especially the beautiful mountain view.
        > Then again, if he was just relaxing on the ledge (not working) he might
        > grok the full detail of the scene.
        >
        > Perhaps everyone but the giant would miss the fly or someone studying
        > him. If the fly was worrying the giant, he might not notice much else
        > other than the fly.
        
        
        A player can focus on the following, based on their recent actions:
        none: commands like relax, wake, etc.
        self: health, stats, score
        specific person: look <person>, attack <person>, etc.
        your task: various skills like lore, climb walls
        other's activities: watch, being near a fight (but not involved)
        surroundings: look(?), look <item>
        people: look(?), scan, etc.
        elsewhere: daydreaming, thinking, spells, etc.
        Elsewhere would also be used when you are studying something besides
        whatever is taking action.
        
        Every person has a primary and secondary focus. The primary focus would
        pertain to whatever the person last did, while the secondary focus would
        be whatever the person was focusing on just before that.
        
        Also, every object, body, action, room description element, etc. has a
        noteworthyness array for third party observers. The array would give a
        rating of how noticable an event/object/person is to someone with a given
        focus. I would assume that the instigator of an action would always
        notice it, as would the target in most situations. :)
        
        -card player-
        For example, one of the card players has the
        skills "gamble," "cheat," and "watch":
        
        gamble would focus the player on: task
        cheat would focus on: task
        watch could either focus on: activities
        or in the case of watcing a specific player: person
        
        For example, if a gambling card player scratched his/her nose, the array
        might look like this (with 0 being non-important, and 9 being very
        important), following the focuses above:
        
        noteworthyness to an observer = { 4, 2, 9, 1, 6, 2, 3, 1 }
        
        If another player was cheating at that moment, they would use the "task"
        element of the "observer" array. Since the element is only 1, the chance
        of that person notcing the scratch would be low. However, if the cheating
        player was watching the scratcher just before they began to cheat (it is
        their secondary focus), the chance of them noticing would be much higher.
        
        -fly/giant-
        Assuming the fly just bit the giant (or perhaps the fly could be
        considered as using the giant as a mount? :), the attack would focus the
        fly on the "specific person" (the giant). The giant, having just been
        attacked by the fly, would focus on the specific person (the fly). Being
        taller than most would increase the giant's people perception in general,
        but would also increase its notability. The gnome would experience the
        exact opposite.
        
        -burglar-
        Climbing walls would focus the player on the task as hand, and once seated
        on the ledge, the player could look at whatever he or she wished. There
        might be a time in character generation (or after) where players could
        indicate the things that attract their attention. Red hair, women, etc.
        should all be possibilities.
        
        Blah blah blah. I think I have made my point clear. What? Implementing,
        you say? Heh heh, you have got me. Not much of a clue how. :)
        
        Hum - drugging a character could result in the importance/notability of
        events and such being all out of whack. The drugged character might
        notice rocks in the grass in detail, and pick a brown shirt out of a crowd
        but not notice a dead and steaming body. Hummm...
        
        ----
        
        Another half-baked idea of mine is to compose room descriptions solely
        from items present in the room. (not just swords and the like, but
        objects/items/stage props made specifically to describe the room). The
        items would have descriptions that change according to the weather, time
        of day, etc. They could also be reused (cobblestone streets look pretty
        much the same in front of an inn as in front of a park). I know,
        description reuse usually spells death for interest in an area, but think
        if only the things that would remain constant were reused, and EVERYTHING
        in the rooms would change according to the conditions in the room.
        
        A short example, one that might be seen from the rooftops and major
        streets of the above little town:
        
        enum time = dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, dusk, evening, midnight, night
        enum temp = magichot, veryhot, hot, warm, cool, cold, verycold, magiccold
        enum weather = cloudless, hazy, partlycloudy, cloudy, darkcloudy,
        lightprecipitation, heavyprecipitation, storm
        
        (Please excuse the mixing of things XML-ish and C++ comments)
        
        mountain desc <morning,noon,afternoon> // the comma means OR
        
        <cloudless,hazy,partlycloudy> // if it is not cloudless, hazy or
        // partlycloudy, do not include this
        // in the final desc the player sees
        In the distance, snowy mountain slopes gleam where the sunlight hits
        them
        </cloudless,hazy,partlycloudy>
        
        <cloudy,lightprecipitation>
        In the distance, light grey clouds boil over snow-covered slopes
        </cloudy,lightprecipitation>
        
        <heavyprecipitation>
        In the distance, low, black clouds dump
        
        <magichot>
        swirling steams
        </magichot>
        
        <veryhot,hot,warm,cool>
        torrential rain
        </veryhot,hot,warm,cool>
        
        <cold,verycold,magiccold>
        thick snow
        </cold,verycold,magiccold>
        
        onto the far mountains' snow-covered slopes.
        </heavyprecipitation>
        
        <partlycloudy,cloudy,lightprecipitation>
        , leaving the peaks wreathed in mist.
        </partlycloudy,cloudy,lightprecipitation>.
        
        <cloudless,hazy>
        .
        </cloudless,hazy>
        </morning,noon,afternoon>
        
        ----
        
        Anyway...
        
        Silence is still working on his networking code... Sigh
        Eli - mailto:c718157@showme.missouri.edu
      • • Dynamically changing room descriptions Jon A. Lambert
    • Dynamically changing room descriptions Ling
  • Dynamically changing room descriptions Christopher Allen
• old fight system I toyed with Koster, Raph
• APE 0.2.1 J C Lawrence
• • APE 0.2.1 Marc Hernandez
  • • APE 0.2.1 claw@kanga.nu
• OT: robots, agents and emotions Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• • OT: robots, agents and emotions Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• Time Discontinuous MUD Ling
• Semi-OT: International intellectual property right (was: Custom Server Roll Call?) Custom Server Roll Call?) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• Semi-OT: International intellectual property rights Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• Marc Hernandez' Server Greg Munt
• • Marc Hernandez' Server Jay Carlson
  • • Marc Hernandez' Server Caliban Tiresias Darklock
    • Marc Hernandez' Server Travis S. Casey
    • Marc Hernandez' Server Adam Wiggins
  • Marc Hernandez' Server Marc Hernandez
  • Marc Hernandez' Server qitelremel@hotmail.com
• Scry 1.9.1 (Feature Freeze) released. Ben Greear
• The distinction between magic spells and magic abilities Greg Munt
• • The distinction between magic spells and magic abilities Matthew Mihaly
• Multi-threaded mud server. Ross Nicoll
• • Multi-threaded mud server. Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • • Multi-threaded mud server. Jon A. Lambert
    • • Multi-threaded mud server. Jo Dillon
      • • Multi-threaded mud server. Travis S. Casey
        • Multi-threaded mud server. Jon A. Lambert
        • Multi-threaded mud server. Chris Gray
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• Macro languages Caliban Tiresias Darklock
• LOTR and Mud [was: Marc Hernandez' Server] Marc Hernandez
• Noise: boys will be boys (was Multi-threaded mud server.) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• • Noise: boys will be boys (was Multi-t hreaded mud server.) Koster, Raph
  • Noise: boys will be boys (was Multi-threaded mud server.) Chris Gray
• Kanga.Nu has finally moved... claw@kanga.nu
• Java & MUD servers Laurent Bossavit
• ScryMUD 1.9.3 released. Ben Greear
• • ScryMUD 1.9.3 released. Chris Gray
  • • ScryMUD 1.9.3 released. Ben Greear
  • ScryMUD 1.9.3 released. Jon A. Lambert
• [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). Ben Greear
• • [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). bruce@puremagic.com
  • [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). Greg Miller
  • • [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). Ben Greear
    • • [TECHNICAL] How to generate pre-processor output (template problem). Greg Miller
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• [TECHNICAL] [SOLVED] (template problem). Ben Greear
• [RELEASE] ScryMUD 1.9.4 available for download. Ben Greear