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<LI><em>From</em>: Robert Brady <<A HREF="mailto:rwb197#ecs,soton.ac.uk">rwb197#ecs,soton.ac.uk</A>></LI>
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Jeremy Music "Sterling" wrote:
> It is fairly easy to implement timers on objects (and even mobs) that remove
> the object when the timer expires. I use this on my mud for scribed spells
> and alchemied (a word?) potions. I would probably use it for popped items
> as well except I use a "temp" flag that makes it when you log out or drop
> link and idle out it is removed from inventory. Both ideas work well
> separately or in conjunction for this kind of thing. (The re-equipping
> after reboot is what sours me on Abermuds, even though I tend to like the
> areas and quests of them and have even ported one of my favorites over to my
> mud).
AberMUDs are now tending towards getting rid of global resets ; some even
have equipment saving now.
As yet, there are no distributed AberMUD codebases that do those things,
but it's likely that in the future this will happen.
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Robert
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00820" HREF="msg00820.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] thoughts on game economies</A></strong>,
Jo Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Tue 15 Jun 1999, 15:27 GMT
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Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Sun 20 Jun 1999, 02:54 GMT
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Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Mon 21 Jun 1999, 18:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00867" HREF="msg00867.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] thoughts on game economies</A></strong>,
Jeremy Music \"Sterling\ <a href="mailto:rezo#lords,com">rezo#lords,com</a>, Tue 22 Jun 1999, 00:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00872" HREF="msg00872.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] thoughts on game economies</A></strong>,
Robert Brady <a href="mailto:rwb197#ecs,soton.ac.uk">rwb197#ecs,soton.ac.uk</a>, Tue 22 Jun 1999, 15:31 GMT
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