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<LI><em>From</em>: "Benjamin D. Wiechel" &lt;<A HREF="mailto:strycher#toast,net">strycher#toast,net</A>&gt;</LI>
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From: Thinus Barnard &lt;thinus_barnard#bigfoot,com&gt;
To: MUD-Dev &lt;mud-dev#kanga,nu&gt;
Date: Friday, December 11, 1998 4:56 AM
Subject: [MUD-Dev] MUD Design doc (long)


&gt;Hi,
&gt;
&gt;Here is a design doc I am writing for my MUD. If anyone has such
&gt;documents I would love to see it. Maybe some of these docs can be
&gt;published on the MUD-Dev web site..? I find design documents very
&gt;instructive and much more understandable than source code. I hope this
&gt;doc helps someone.
&gt;
&gt;Cheers
&gt;Thinus
&gt;

I am curious, what sort of MUD system is this designed around?  As
I come from an LP background, specifically, hanging out on CDLIB
these days, I found that, while top level descriptive, some of what you
described definitely is abnormal to LP mud.

The other part that I'm curious about is, is this a help file for coding
wizards, or is this a descriptive plan of what you are trying to
accomplish?  When you ask for design docs, are you talking about
general "How to build a mud" docs, or help docs pertaining to
various muds/codebases?

It think one thing that could be an interesting project would be to
build a HOWTO at a general level for MUDs, although I'm sure that
this would tend to be codebase specific.  Assuming that, a HOWTO
that would help beginning mud admins select a codebase would
probably be appropriate, and also interesting to design.  Is there
significant value to doing this?

Strycher....
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Benjamin D. Wiechel
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00960" HREF="msg00960.html">[MUD-Dev] small dev-mud invite</A></strong>, 
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00955" HREF="msg00955.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Hex grids.</A></strong>, 
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Benjamin D. Wiechel <a href="mailto:strycher#toast,net">strycher#toast,net</a>, Fri 11 Dec 1998, 18:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00964" HREF="msg00964.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)</A></strong>, 
Thinus Barnard <a href="mailto:thinus_barnard#bigfoot,com">thinus_barnard#bigfoot,com</a>, Mon 14 Dec 1998, 07:51 GMT
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