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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Population container</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 24 Jun 97 16:40:05 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg01362.html">Pine.SOL.3.94.970619203725.20110E-100000#eduserv1,rug.ac.be</A>>, on
06/19/97
at 08:39 PM, Wout Mertens <Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be> said:
>What is it? Well, you take a kind of monster that you want to
>populate a zone with. Now make a population model, something like
>Fibonacci's row or so (rabbits!), and update the model every once in
>a while. Now, if a player is about, and he 'spots' one (or more) of
>the population, decrease you population by one (or more) and make the
>appropriate monster appear.
>This way, you can have zillions of flies, musquito's, dwarfs, etc
>etc, you could even describe the critters from the container (some
>dwarfs are lurking about) (tho I think that's a bit farfetched), and
>all with virtually no memory or cpu overhead.
A good idea. Problem:
Bubba does a speed run thru the zone and manages to "see" every
single mosquito (he's exceptionally shard sighted). You container is
empty and you have lots of live, animated mosquito objects.
You also need a way of folding the "dead" (ie unseen) objects back
into the container at some point. The problem is guaranteeing that
that folding is not detectable by players:
> l
You are in a corridor that runs east west.
There is a T-Rexx here.
> w
You are at the end of a corridor that runs east west.
The only exit is to the east.
> e
You are in a corridor that runs east west.
There is a T-Rexx here.
The T-Rexx leaves west.
> wait a really long time.
> w
...no T-Rexx...
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Git out the boar spear, Martha!</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01404" HREF="msg01404.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Git out the boar spear, Martha!</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sat 21 Jun 1997, 16:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01362" HREF="msg01362.html">Population container</A></strong>,
Wout Mertens <a href="mailto:Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be">Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be</a>, Fri 20 Jun 1997, 01:51 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01383" HREF="msg01383.html">[MUD-Dev] Population container</A></strong>,
Brandon Cline <a href="mailto:brandon#sedona,net">brandon#sedona,net</a>, Fri 20 Jun 1997, 16:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01391" HREF="msg01391.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Population container</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Sat 21 Jun 1997, 05:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01483" HREF="msg01483.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Population container</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 25 Jun 1997, 06:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01558" HREF="msg01558.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Population container</A></strong>,
Wout Mertens <a href="mailto:Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be">Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be</a>, Fri 27 Jun 1997, 22:37 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01555" HREF="msg01555.html">Population container</A></strong>,
Wout Mertens <a href="mailto:Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be">Wout.Mertens#rug,ac.be</a>, Fri 27 Jun 1997, 21:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01358" HREF="msg01358.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Name/language generation</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 19 Jun 1997, 21:48 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="01348" HREF="msg01348.html">Name/language generation</A></strong>,
Oliver Jowett <a href="mailto:oliver#sa-search,massey.ac.nz">oliver#sa-search,massey.ac.nz</a>, Thu 19 Jun 1997, 06:13 GMT
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