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Re: [MUD-Dev] Gods, worshipers and the balance
Jon A. Lambert wrote:
>
> On 17 Jan 98 at 11:27, Marian Griffith wrote:
> > On Sat 13 Dec, Adam Wiggins wrote:
> > > [Vadim Tkachenko:]
> >
> > > > - Universe should preserve the balance (hopefully).
> >
> > *shrug* I don't see that as of paramount importance.
> >
>
> It is of paramount importance. Technically all these power transfers
> between clerics, followers and deities should allow for a long running
> game. They all boil down to equations in the code. The system should
> be stable enough to have imbalances to occur yet have the ability
> to recover from them. I'd hate to see the devil bounced out of play after
> the servers only been running for a week. ;)
You just hit it - I forgot to mention why that statement came to life.
It was all about the difference between one-player RPGs, where you
usually leave the world lying in the ashes behind your back, and the
multi-player world, which becomes useless in this case. By the 'balance'
I assumed the conditions which will keep the world playable, but not
constant (like most MUDs I've seen so far, which change only when the
developers/maintainers add/delete some areas and modify some rules).
> --/*\ Jon A. Lambert - TychoMUD
--
Still alive and smile stays on,
Vadim Tkachenko <VadimT#4CS,Com>
--
UNIX _is_ user friendly, he's just very picky about who his friends are
- Thread context:
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: BUILDERS: Ferries,
Marian Griffith gryphon#iaehv,nl, Sat 17 Jan 1998, 10:40 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Gods, worshipers and the balance,
Marian Griffith gryphon#iaehv,nl, Sat 17 Jan 1998, 10:40 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Gods, worshipers and the balance,
Jon A. Lambert jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com, Tue 20 Jan 1998, 04:42 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Gods, worshipers and the balance,
Matt Chatterley root#mpc,dyn.ml.org, Tue 20 Jan 1998, 21:15 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Gods, worshipers and the balance,
coder coder#ibm,net, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 01:47 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Gods, worshipers and the balance,
coder coder#ibm,net, Thu 12 Feb 1998, 02:17 GMT
- Formatting apology,
Stephen Zepp zoran#enid,com, Wed 14 Jan 1998, 02:02 GMT
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