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719: Re: Just a bit of musing

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From: clawrenc@cup.hp.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 97 09:18:35 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
In <199704130106.BAA494596@out1.ibm.net>, on 04/12/97 
   at 03:00 PM, Nathan Yospe <yospe@hawaii.edu> said:

>On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 clawrenc@cup.hp.com wrote:

>:In <199702270058.AAA33418@out1.ibm.net>, on 02/26/97 
>:   at 02:31 PM, Nathan Yospe <yospe@hawaii.edu> said:
>:
>:<<Note: This is from a while ago now>>
>:
>:>A thread on rec.games.mud.admin has recently turned to combat
>:>interaction. The thread is, unfortunately, dominated by the diku
>:>types, who have rather limited perception when it comes to combat,
>:>and who, in trying to propose beyond the room visability, have
>:>trapped themselves into a complex system to establish three
>:>dimesnional positioning and standard vision passing of rooms. ...
>:
>:Nathan:  Can you give me some key words to hit DejaNews with on this? 
>:I'd like to dig up the thread.  While its undoubtedly full of the
>:usual knee-jerks, there may be some good stuff in there as well.

>"Interaction in combat"? It was something like that, possibly an
>offshoot of that thread... some others of intrest recently:
>rec.games.mud.diku's "event driven vs loop driven",
>rec.games.mud.admin's "quests", which started talking about dynamic
>permanent worlds before it decayed.

Thanks -- I'm digging them up now.

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