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November 2001

Digimask Technology. Matt Owen
- Digimask Technology. Ian Macintosh
Call for submissions to Game Programming Gems 3 Andrew Kirmse
Virtual environments for education? Edward Glowacki
- Virtual environments for education? Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- - Virtual environments for education? Bruce Mitchener
- Virtual environments for education? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Virtual environments for education? Dr. Cat
- Virtual environments for education? Mats Lidstrom
Playing NPCs Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
A Hello, and thanks... o. rchaeus
NPCS Mr Dylan Tovey
- NPCS Travis Nixon
- NPCS luke@rocketship.com
Story in MM*s [was ] Joe Andrieu
player-driven content? Sasha Hart
- player-driven content? Paul Schwanz
- - player-driven content? Bruce Mitchener
(no subject) J C Lawrence
- (no subject) Koster, Raph
- (no subject) Peter Tyson
WebRPG Travis Casey
[TECH][SURVEY] non-mainstream languages? Bruce Mitchener
- [TECH][SURVEY] non-mainstream languages? Brian Hook
- [TECH][SURVEY] non-mainstream languages? Nathan F. Yospe
- [TECH][SURVEY] non-mainstream languages? Mats Lidstrom
- [TECH][SURVEY] non-mainstream languages? Bruce Mitchener
"sweeping change"? Sellers, Mike
- "sweeping change"? Michael Tresca
- - "sweeping change"? Sellers, Mike
  - - "sweeping change"? Michael Tresca
  - "sweeping change"? Freeman, Jeff
  - "sweeping change"? Matt Mihaly
  - - "sweeping change"? Sellers, Mike
Re[4]: Expectations of in-game reality Travis Casey
Cynical at a young age T.A.J.BARTON
Tabletop RPGs and Inspiration (was: no subject) Brian 'Psychochild' Green
- Tabletop RPGs and Inspiration (was: no subject) John Mariotti
- Tabletop RPGs and Inspiration (was: no subject) Matt Chatterley
- Tabletop RPGs and Inspiration (was: no subject) Sean K
- Tabletop RPGs and Inspiration (was: no subject) Don Healey
Some survey results... Andrew Wilson
- Some survey results... Matt Mihaly
- - Some survey results... Jeremy Noetzelman
  - Some survey results... Andrew Wilson
- Some survey results... Dr. Cat
- - Some survey results... Andrew Wilson
  - - Some survey results... Dr. Cat
- Some survey results... Derek Snider
- - Some survey results... Andrew Wilson
- Some survey results... Matt Mihaly
Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Michael Tresca
- Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Dave Rickey
- - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Ryan S. Dancey
  - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Richard Aihoshi aka Jonric
    - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Leland Hulbert II
      - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Richard Aihoshi aka Jonric
        Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Matt Mihaly
      - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Paul Schwanz
      - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Dave Rickey
  - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Sellers, Mike
  - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Ryan S. Dancey
- Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Valerio Santinelli
- Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Koster, Raph
- - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Michael Tresca
  - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Brian Hook
  - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Lars Duening
  - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Phillip Lenhardt
      - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Lars Duening
    - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Matt Mihaly
    - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Travis Casey
      - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Matt Mihaly
        Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Travis Casey
  - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Don Healey
  - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Michael Tresca
    - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Matt Mihaly
    - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Paul Schwanz
    - - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Travis Casey
      - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Phillip Lenhardt
      - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Don Healey
      - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Koster, Raph
- Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Ling Lo
- Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Ryan S. Dancey
- Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Paul Schwanz
- - Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead Michael Tresca
[DGN] The Human Condition Kwon Ekstrom
Multi-protagonist stories. Paul Schwanz
- Multi-protagonist stories. Matt Mihaly
licensing Adam Martin
- licensing Vincent Archer
- licensing Travis Casey
Tabletop RPGs and Inspiration (was: no subject) Sami Kosonen
Licensing PnP RPGs was "sweeping change"? Brian Hook
- Licensing PnP RPGs was "sweeping change"? Richard Aihoshi aka Jonric
- Licensing PnP RPGs was "sweeping change"? Freeman, Jeff
Good Writing (was: Role-Playing Games Are Not Dead) Brian 'Psychochild' Green
New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Marian Griffith
- New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) John Buehler
  - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Bruce Mitchener
  - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Marian Griffith
  - - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Bruce Mitchener
- - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Marian Griffith
  - - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Mark Eaton
    - - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Marian Griffith
    - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
    - - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Travis Casey
      - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
        New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Travis Casey
      - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Andrew Hefford
      - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Paul Schwanz
- New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Matt Mihaly
- - New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Marian Griffith
- New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) Paul Schwanz
Storied Games Paul Schwanz
- Storied Games amanda@alfar.com
- Storied Games Lee Sheldon
- - Storied Games Dave Rickey
  - - Storied Games Travis Casey
  - Storied Games Paul Schwanz
  - - Storied Games Marian Griffith
    - - Storied Games Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
    - Storied Games Lee Sheldon
    - - Storied Games John W. Pierce
      - Storied Games Lee Sheldon
        Storied Games jsmithn@hotmail.com
- Storied Games Matt Mihaly
- - Storied Games Miroslav Silovic
  - - Storied Games Derek Licciardi
    - Storied Games Matt Mihaly
    - - Storied Games amanda@alfar.com
      - Storied Games Matt Mihaly
        Storied Games amanda@alfar.com
        Storied Games Matt Mihaly
Player Manipulation of Environment/New Laws Paul Schwanz
- Player Manipulation of Environment/New Laws Bruce Mitchener
- - Player Manipulation of Environment/New Laws Paul Schwanz
- Player Manipulation of Environment/New Laws Marian Griffith
Player Manipulation of Environment Paul Schwanz
- Player Manipulation of Environment Paul Schwanz
- - Player Manipulation of Environment Matt Mihaly
  - Player Manipulation of Environment Andrew Hefford {Coregen}
  - - Player Manipulation of Environment Eli Stevens
- Player Manipulation of Environment Jasper McChesney
- - Player Manipulation of Environment Paul Schwanz
  - - Player Manipulation of Environment Adam Martin
    - Player Manipulation of Environment Jasper McChesney
    - Player Manipulation of Environment Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
    - - Player Manipulation of Environment Ling Lo
      - Player Manipulation of Environment rayzam
        Player Manipulation of Environment Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
        Player Manipulation of Environment Marc Hernandez
Fw: AVATARS2001 this weekend Frank Crowell
[NEWS] Lineage: The Blood Pledge Interview Dave Kennerly
- [NEWS] Lineage: The Blood Pledge Interview Dave Kennerly
Storytelling and Professionals (was: ) Kathleen Foley
- Storytelling and Professionals (was: ) Lee Sheldon
- - Storytelling and Professionals (was: ) Dave Rickey
  - - Storytelling and Professionals (was: ) Lee Sheldon
not about telling stories Joe Andrieu
- not about telling stories Freeman, Jeff
- not about telling stories Travis Casey
Storytelling and Professionals (was) Lee Sheldon
A Non-Cumulative Character MMORPG? Heresy! Paul Schwanz
Storytelling and Professionals (was) Ananda Dawnsinger
Asheron's Call, Story and Population Density. Zak Jarvis
- Asheron's Call, Story and Population Density. Sasha Hart
- - Asheron's Call, Story and Population Density. Christopher Kohnert
  - - Asheron's Call, Story and Population Density. Sasha Hart
    - - Asheron's Call, Story and Population Density. Christopher Kohnert
- Asheron's Call, Story and Population Density. Lee Sheldon
Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Sanxion
- Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms vognsen@post10.tele.dk
- - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms David Bennett
  - - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Sanxion
    - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Christopher Kohnert
    - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Per Vognsen
    - - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms David Bennett
      - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Eli Stevens
- Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Christopher Kohnert
- Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Nicholas E. Walker
- - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Marcus Johansson
  - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
  - - Tech: Pathfinding with Rooms Leland Hulbert II
[NEWS] Lineage: The Blood Pledge Interview - Richard's blunder :) Mathieu Castelli
Subject: New laws. (was: Player Manipulation of Environment) John Robert Arras
Meridian 59 purchased by developers Andrew Kirmse
- Meridian 59 purchased by developers James C. Nugen
- Meridian 59 purchased by developers Frank Crowell
[STORY] Story and population size Adam Martin
- [STORY] Story and population size Derek Licciardi
- - [STORY] Story and population size Christopher Kohnert
  - - [STORY] Story and population size Timothy Dang
    - - [STORY] Story and population size Derek Licciardi
    - [STORY] Story and population size Vincent Archer
    - - [STORY] Story and population size Christopher Kohnert
  - [STORY] Story and population size John Buehler
  - - [STORY] Story and population size Derek Licciardi
    - - [STORY] Story and population size John Buehler
      - [STORY] Story and population size Jeff Freeman
        [STORY] Story and population size Travis Nixon
        [STORY] Story and population size Wells, Thomas
        [STORY] Story and population size Matt Mihaly
        [STORY] Story and population size John Buehler
        [STORY] Story and population size Matt Mihaly
        [STORY] Story and population size Jeff Cole
        [STORY] Story and population size John Buehler
        [STORY] Story and population size Jeff Cole
        [STORY] Story and population size John Buehler
        [STORY] Story and population size Michael Tresca
        [STORY] Story and population size Matt Mihaly
      - [STORY] Story and population size Dave Rickey
      - [STORY] Story and population size Jeff Cole
        [STORY] Story and population size Dave Rickey
        [STORY] Story and population size Paul Schwanz
        [STORY] Story and population size Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
        [STORY] Story and population size Andrew Hefford
        [STORY] Story and population size Bryan "Cyngon" Helmkamp
- [STORY] Story and population size Bobby Martin
- - [STORY] Story and population size Marian Griffith
  - - [STORY] Story and population size Bobby Martin
- [STORY] Story and population size Bruce Mitchener
- - [STORY] Story and population size Sellers, Mike
  - [STORY] Story and population size Bobby Martin
[GENETICS] Evolving prey populations Adam Martin
Stories, why? Ian Collyer
- Stories, why? amanda@alfar.com
Purchase of Meridian 59 by Near Death Studios Brian 'Psychochild' Green
- Purchase of Meridian 59 by Near Death Studios Rob Ellis II
- Purchase of Meridian 59 by Near Death Studios Lee Sheldon
- Purchase of Meridian 59 by Near Death Studios Sellers, Mike
Community Building Sanvean
doesNotUnderstand behavior in C++ (was: Spoofs) Eli Stevens
Importance of player roles Sasha Hart
RTS aspects in MUDs (LONG) lhulbert@hotmail.com
- RTS aspects in MUDs (LONG) John Robert Arras
- - RTS aspects in MUDs (LONG) Leland Hulbert II
  - RTS aspects in MUDs (LONG) holding99@mindspring.com
- RTS aspects in MUDs (LONG) Dave Kennerly
  
  lhulbert@hotmail.com wrote:
  
  > I think that RTS aspects in a MUD are the next step.
  
  Here's some reference material. Even if you are planning just a few
  RTS aspects, studying games with many RTS aspects is useful to see
  an exaggeration of what you intend for a MUD.
  
  10six.com http://www.10six.com/
  Fighting Legends http://www.mcszone.com/
  Shattered Galaxy http://www.sgalaxy.com
  Sovereign http://sovereign.station.sony.com/index.jsp
  StarPeace http://www.starpeace.net/
  
  Anyone recognize an MMORTS at MPOGD?
  
  http://www.mpogd.com/games/strategy/index.asp
  
  Some fan discussion
  
  http://mmo.gameznet.com/rts/
  
  Will someone on the list who has played some MMORTS's comment in depth?
  
  I can speak a little about Shattered Galaxy, only. I didn't work on
  Shattered Galaxy, but we work in the same office. I picked up most
  of the following by osmosis from the US developers and operators:
  Kevin Saunders, David Wei, and Terence Park.
  
  Shattered Galaxy agrees with most of your assessment of Pros (the
  audience pro is questionable, although Nexon believed the market was
  there), but suffered none of the Cons you listed. All of them are
  standard problems for any RTS. Some of them were more like a Pro
  for MMO than a Con. For example, MMO Unit Building allows many more
  options than a game with on a modest multiplayer platform.
  
  > If you give an order to 10 soldiers, and 5 of them are PCs,
  
  Shattered Galaxy gave the players about 6-20 troops each to control.
  
  A few cons of a "MMO" platform + "RTS" gameplay for Shattered Galaxy
  were:
  
  1. PvP game balance. If the advancement schedule is too frequent,
  then new players are drastically limited in whom they will have
  fun playing with. If the advancement schedule is too infrequent
  it's boring. Unfortunately, I suspect the minimum rewarding
  schedule is higher than the maximum lifespan schedule. If my
  guess were right, it means there is no sustainable advancement
  schedule. This week Shattered Galaxy is applying an attempted
  solution to this problem.
  
  2. Cooperation and community building. All MMOs need communities,
  but in the case of RTS, lack of cooperation means the basic
  scenario is frustrating.
  
  3. Client hacking. I've read here and elsewhere the ultimate way
  to stop all client hacking, but to balance fast-feedback, other
  solutions were programmed, which leaves some vulnerability.
  Depending on the RTS and internet requirements this could be
  mitigated. But for the RTS style that's popular now, a lot of
  computing has to be done in the client.
  
  There's a post mortem of Tactical Commanders in Game Developer
  Korea, but I can barely read simple Korean words.
  
  I'd personally enjoy playtesting in a MUD with RTS elements. I used
  to think it would be cool to have a MMO that allowed play on the
  strategic _and_ tactical level (like Archon but more simulational),
  in similar ways that you're discussing. In politically primitive
  ways, MMO guilds do a few of the RTS-like activities, such as
  resource gathering.
  
  Dave
- - RTS aspects in MUDs (LONG) Takis Kalogiratos
Agora, a Wiki for MUD topics Bruce Mitchener