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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Vast areas in muds</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Vast areas in muds</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Mike Sellers <<A HREF="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</A>></LI>
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At 01:23 PM 1/19/98 PST8PDT, John G. wrote:
>Ling wondered:
>: [with regard to representing rather big areas in muds]
>: I've always wondered... For a real 3d movement sort of
>: mud, imagine the player got shrunk into a 1 inch high
>: stag beetle and gets transported to a desert. Does this
>: mean the player will sit there watching a blank screen
>: as the character attempts to traverse a few thousand
>: miles of desert or does the occassional message appear:
>
>One solution would be to change the game perspective.
>If your mud recognizes an area as 'vast' then the units of
> distance per time and resources consumed per time
> can be increased.
How do you handle time re-synchronization then? You enter a vast, boring
desert (NevadaMUD! :) ), traverse it slowly in the shape of a tiny stag
beetle, and emerge weeks (and a few paragraphs of text) later -- only to
find that just a few minutes have gone by for everyone else.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00291" HREF="msg00291.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Graphical mud perspectives</A></strong>,
Richard Woolcock <a href="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</a>, Fri 23 Jan 1998, 01:40 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00264" HREF="msg00264.html">META: Web futures for the list</A></strong>,
JC Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM">claw#under,Eng.Sun.COM</a>, Tue 20 Jan 1998, 21:05 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00254" HREF="msg00254.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Vast areas in muds</A></strong>,
John G. <a href="mailto:ashen#pixi,com">ashen#pixi,com</a>, Mon 19 Jan 1998, 21:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00256" HREF="msg00256.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Vast areas in muds</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00261" HREF="msg00261.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Vast areas in muds</A></strong>,
Mike Sellers <a href="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</a>, Tue 20 Jan 1998, 06:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00262" HREF="msg00262.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Vast areas in muds</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00263" HREF="msg00263.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Vast areas in muds</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Tue 20 Jan 1998, 18:44 GMT
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Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Sat 17 Jan 1998, 15:31 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00249" HREF="msg00249.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: BUILDERS: Ferries</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Sat 17 Jan 1998, 10:40 GMT
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