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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sun, 31 Aug 97 08:41:46 -0700</LI>
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On 27/08/97 at 08:18 AM, Jeff Kesselman <jeffk#tenetwork,com> said:
>At 05:46 PM 8/26/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:
Uhh, Jeff. Please handle your attributions, permanently. I realise
that memory is fallable. However you are a programmer of some
competancy and I expect that you can devise a system to handle this
area.
We currently have several projects underway to catalog, summarise, and
thread the list archives. We *NEED* full attributions.
>The key for "my" system ( and ist really ours, i have 2 co-designers)
>is the lack of witnesses. Reputation is gloabl, it gets aroudn
>relaitvely quickly. As we have world-wide person-to-person chat in
>the game thats only logical. (Its a very psychic world so that is
>easy explained.)
>But witnesses are key. Witnesses actually generate a % chance that
>the system then rolls against to see if this act gets tarcked to your
>infamy.
Underneath this would seem to be an implicit virtual simpeep
population who depsite not being seen or even being accessible, are
responsible for propagating the reputation across the game world.
>We're nmot sure of thsi one ourselves. We are leanign toward makign
>a eprsons infamy known, though not in any ckind of nuerical way that
>coudl be sued to make a game otu of gettign the lwoest infamy. The
>reason for makign it knjwon is "newbie' players really shoudl knwo
>that Black bart is a well known wanted killer....
Which begs the questions: Why should newbie playres (automatically)
know (or have access to the data) that Black Bart is a well known
wanted killer?
>>Okay:
>>
>> Bubba is a generally, Okay-sh sort of character, not to good, not
>>too bad. One day he's out and about and discovers a Super-Whammy
>>Sword. He then wanders into a fairly sizeable town and slaughters
>>every soul therein. No survivors. None. Nada. Zip. Perhaps a
>>dragon comes along as well and eats the corpses and burns the place to
>>the ground after the fact.
>>
>>What is Bubba's reputation?
>
>Again depends on teh size of the town. In general above a fairly
>small size we are going to assume soem of the "men on the street'
>thata rent in game rpesent can survive and run away.
Simpeeps?
>>That point I am heading towards here is that reputation is dependant
>>on perception. The fact that Bubba takes off on a long voyage and
>We agree HOWEVERE we also believe that our game does not physicaly
>represent on screen al lthe potential witnesses. In fact, ina
>reasonably densly populated area yo uare virtually ASSURED of NOT
>accountign for all the witnesses.
How about if Bubba instead nukes an entire city from a remote
location? BOOM! __Everything__, and I mean __everything__ is gone.
Okay, you're doing a fantasy world, not atomic physics. make that
instead of a nuke, a huge fireball that Bubba has been constructing
and massing for years, the equivalent of a large meteor strike. BOOM!
Instant miles of wastleand.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00692" HREF="msg00692.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Character evolution</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Wed 20 Aug 1997, 06:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00752" HREF="msg00752.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Character evolution</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 27 Aug 1997, 00:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00760" HREF="msg00760.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Character evolution</A></strong>,
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Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sat 30 Aug 1997, 00:59 GMT
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