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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A> (Caliban Tiresias Darklock)</LI>
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On Sun, 31 Aug 1997 18:41:21 PST8PDT, "Brian Price"
<blprice#bedford,net> wrote:
>In the codebases I've seen thus far, spells and skills are largely
>hardcoded. I would like to implement a system where they were instead
>parameterized and stored in the mud's database. One approach to this
>would be to describe spells and skills as a collection of
>event-dependant affects. To implement this, the definition of affects
>would need to be expanded a bit, for example, a mud object's location
>would be an affectable state. Also, there would need to be a system
>of events which would trigger the various affects.
Hmmm...
>Has such a system been implemented elsewhere? If not, any thoughts on
>how such a system could/should be implemented?
I believe it's called a "MUSH". ;)
I'd like to see such a system myself. However, the problem I've found
with such systems is that they leave EVERYTHING up to the designer...
although Lydia's MUDcore will alleviate that to some degree, but not
much. We're starting to see a lot of good work come out on this sort of
concept, but unfortunately thus far it's all vaporware.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01198" HREF="msg01198.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Fri 12 Sep 1997, 21:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01220" HREF="msg01220.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Mon 15 Sep 1997, 16:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01229" HREF="msg01229.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Tue 16 Sep 1997, 20:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00927" HREF="msg00927.html">Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects</A></strong>,
Brian Price <a href="mailto:blprice#bedford,net">blprice#bedford,net</a>, Mon 01 Sep 1997, 01:41 GMT
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Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Mon 01 Sep 1997, 02:21 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00931" HREF="msg00931.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Mon 01 Sep 1997, 03:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01101" HREF="msg01101.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 23:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01116" HREF="msg01116.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects</A></strong>,
Dan Shiovitz <a href="mailto:scythe#u,washington.edu">scythe#u,washington.edu</a>, Fri 05 Sep 1997, 23:49 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01131" HREF="msg01131.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Modeling spells/skills as collections of affects</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sat 06 Sep 1997, 16:25 GMT
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