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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Mud-time vs real-time (was Re: skill system)</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Richard Woolcock <<A HREF="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:25:40 -0700</LI>
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Mike Sellers wrote:
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> At 09:37 PM 6/11/98 -0700, Richard Woolcock wrote:
> >... if you were bullied as a kid, how would you feel if you
> >met that bully again as an adult? What if said bully was still far bigger
> >and meaner than you? Perhaps it could store the fact that you hadn't fought
> >him for a certain amount of time (I might use 3 bits, giving a number of
> >real-life days between 0 and 7 since you had last fought them - 7 days = 1
> >mud year, which would be a reasonable maximum).
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> This sparked a thought in me I haven't seen dealth with here: does anyone
> keep a real and meaningful tally of long-term time going by? For example,
> if you said 1 month = 1 mud year (1 week/mud year seems a bit short to me),
> you could fairly easily make adjustments for aging, skill aquisition and
> atrophy, and even crop cycles, building maintenance, etc. It'd make
> anti-aging potions powerful, and give players reasons to let their old
> (literally) character die and move on to another one.
I use 1 real second = 1 mud minute. This makes a mud year slightly under
a week. It is a bit fast in some ways, but it also makes it quite possible
for players to die of old age. I have body-permy-death (soul lives on),
but players are able to choose their body's starting age which helps counter
that problem.
> Hmmm. At 10 days to the mud year, you'd age 3 years/month or thereabouts,
> and 36 years per real year. So an un-enhanced character _might_ have a
> lifespan of 1-2 real years (say average starting age of ~20) if human --
> other races could vary wildly from this.
Yes that would work, I just find it easier to use 1 second == 1 minute,
particularly as the system time conveniently gives me the elapsed time
in mud MINUTES since 1970 ;) I suppose you could double it quite easily,
which would work out at slightly over 12 real days per mud year.
> Thoughts? Who's tried this in any serious way? What are some of the
> downsides to doing something like this?
After a few months the mud looks like a pensioners home ;) Actually its
my fault for:
1) Not coding age-death yet, and
2) Not stopping vampires from aging.
Both are due to the mud not being finished yet *sigh*. I've never really
imagined finishing it, but some day I would just like to get the damn thing
playable.
KaVir.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01026" HREF="msg01026.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: skill system</A></strong>,
Richard Woolcock <a href="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</a>, Sun 14 Jun 1998, 10:46 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="01130" HREF="msg01130.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: skill system</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00977" HREF="msg00977.html">[MUD-Dev] Mud-time vs real-time (was Re: skill system)</A></strong>,
Mike Sellers <a href="mailto:mike#bignetwork,com">mike#bignetwork,com</a>, Thu 11 Jun 1998, 21:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00980" HREF="msg00980.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud-time vs real-time (was Re: skill system)</A></strong>,
T. Alexander Popiel <a href="mailto:popiel#beldin,snugharbor.com">popiel#beldin,snugharbor.com</a>, Thu 11 Jun 1998, 22:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00985" HREF="msg00985.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud-time vs real-time (was Re: skill system)</A></strong>,
Richard Woolcock <a href="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</a>, Thu 11 Jun 1998, 23:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00987" HREF="msg00987.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Mud-time vs real-time (was Re: skill system)</A></strong>,
Katrina McClelan <a href="mailto:kitkat#the486,bradley.edu">kitkat#the486,bradley.edu</a>, Fri 12 Jun 1998, 00:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00969" HREF="msg00969.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: skill system</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00953" HREF="msg00953.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: skill system</A></strong>,
John Bertoglio <a href="mailto:alexb#internetcds,com">alexb#internetcds,com</a>, Thu 11 Jun 1998, 00:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00968" HREF="msg00968.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: skill system</A></strong>,
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