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From: "Nathan F. Yospe" <nyospe@mac.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:35:08 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 05:47 AM, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:31:49 -0400
> Ben Chambers <gtg983q@mail.gatech.edu> wrote:
>> From: Matthew Estes
> If you dig back in the archives you'll find considerable
> discussion of spell systems which semi-attempt natural balance
> through use mechanics. The basic pattern as I were making the
> value of the atoms a spell was built from, as well as the
> capability of a spell itself variously be a function of how many
> had people used it recently, and/or of how many people knew it.
> It becomes particularly interesting when the power of a spell
> scales up linearly with the number of people who know it, but
> decreases exponentially with the number who have used it.
There's quite a bit under "potions" too. I remember a message
detailing an alchemy implementation at one point. (Can't seem to
find it right now, but I do remember it...)
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Nathan F. Yospe
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