March 2004

• Quick question SSL Mats Lidstrom
• Player Justice (was: Character Restraint & Capture (bounty hunting)) Damion Schubert
• Player Justice Paul Schwanz
• • Player Justice Damion Schubert
  • • Player Justice Freeman, Jeff
  • Player Justice Koster, Raph
  • • Player Justice Michael Sellers
    • • Player Justice Koster, Raph
      • • Player Justice Matt Mihaly
      • Player Justice Freeman, Jeff
    • Player Justice Paul Schwanz
• Quick question SSL...solution? ceo
• The Economic Model - as a Game Matt Chatterley
• • The Economic Model - as a Game j0hn@mistydale.com
• Parser engines Brian Hook
• • Parser engines Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
  • Parser engines Malcolm W. Tester II
  • • Parser engines Mike Rozak
    • • Parser engines Miroslav Silovic
      • • Parser engines Mike Rozak
        • Parser engines Artur Biesiadowski
      • Parser engines Jason Slaughter
      • • Parser engines Mike Rozak
        • • Parser engines Travis Casey
      • Parser engines Nathan Yospe
  • Parser engines ext.Christer.Enfors@tietoenator.com
  • • Parser engines Sean Middleditch
  • Parser engines T. Alexander Popiel
  • Parser engines Lars Duening
  • Parser engines Brian Hook
  • • Parser engines Helps Family
    • • Parser engines Travis Casey
    • Parser engines Robert Zubek
  • Parser engines Brian Hook
• Meet & Greet IV Anthony R. Haslage
• N00b question Matthew Turland
• • N00b question Peter Harkins
• [good] N00b question Manuel Lanctot
• Player Justice Brian 'Psychochild' Green
• • Player Justice John Buehler
  • • Player Justice Damion Schubert
    • Player Justice Jester
    • • Player Justice Baar - Lord of the Seven Suns
      • • Player Justice cruise
        • Player Justice Jeff Fuller
        • • Player Justice Travis Nixon
          • Player Justice Tom "cro" Gordon
        • Player Justice John Buehler
        • Player Justice Eric Random
• Player Justice Matt Mihaly
• • Player Justice Brian 'Psychochild' Green
• [good] Parser engines Manuel Lanctot
• • [good] Parser engines Travis Casey
  • [good] Parser engines Mike Rozak
• Character Restraint and Griefing mark
• Cultural impact on Muds Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• 2d mapping in SQL Matt Chatterley
• • 2d mapping in SQL szii@sziisoft.com
  • 2d mapping in SQL Byron Ellacott
  • • 2d mapping in SQL Matt Chatterley
    • • 2d mapping in SQL Byron Ellacott
      • • 2d mapping in SQL Matt Chatterley
  • 2d mapping in SQL Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• Why significant rewards for quests are a bad thing Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• • Why significant rewards for quests are a bad thing Brian Miller
• Character Restraint & Capture. (long) Jester
• MUD/MMO Service Tools Jim Purbrick
• [Biz] Bots Open Door to Gaming History Michael Tresca
• [Announcement] Mesh Project Jon A. Lambert
• Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the first one :)) ceo
• • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the firstone :)) Koster, Raph
  • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the firstone :)) Michael Sellers
  • • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the firstone :)) ceo
  • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the first one :)) Luca Girardo
    At 14:54 31.03.2004, ceo wrote:
    
    > His summary is "So in short, which of Gordon's 10 does the Sim
    > Server adress? My answer is every one thats real!" which I find
    > somewhat blinkered. It appears he chooses to ignore all the
    > non-technical problems, including issues of maintenance, customer
    > support, ongoing development, etc.
    
    I do not think he is ignoring all the non-technical problems. His
    answers are fitting if you consider the MMOG as a standard
    distributed legacy system. And following that model, if you have a
    good architecture, you have solved all your problems. Is that true?
    Yes and no. Yes, a robust distributed server architecture is a huge
    benefit and it is a factor to take in consideration with a growing
    customer numbers and possibly multiple MMOGs. And if you look at
    Jeff's answers, you see they are correct. Correct as long as you see
    the MMOG just a standard legacy system and you just try to analyze
    the impact of the software architecture. The problem is that a MMOG
    is more then a software architecture and it is more then a standard
    distributed legacy system. The fact that Jeff is ignoring this fact
    in his answers make me wonder why that: absence of experience in the
    MMOG field (therefore this limited model view) or because would like
    to market the Sim Server Technology (see here for a short
    description
    
    http://www.javagaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=News;action=display;num80684805
    
    as the final and unique solution (see Chris comment "...I know that
    there are others that have been building companies doing similar
    things, but we think we have a unique solution here..." at
    
    http://www.javagaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=News;action=display;num80684805;start
    
    for all the problems developers will encounter during the creation
    and development of a MMOG. Or is again an example of Gordons reason
    #9 why not invest and make a MMOG?
    
    It could also be interesting to initiate an in-depth discussion of
    Gordon's 10 reasons with their implications for all the different
    aspects of a MMOG (and not only software architecture even if that
    is one of the principal aspects).
    
    Luca Girardo
  • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the firstone :)) Mike Rozak
• DGN NEWS: Master's thesis on quest systems for MMORPGs William Saar
• • DGN NEWS: Master's thesis on quest systems for MMORPGs Douglas Goodall