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From: "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <olag@ifi.uio.no>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:34:23 +0100
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Koster, Raph wrote:
> Maybe I learned something about exactly how much it takes to get to
> where you're going. ;) Seriously, though, what we learned with UO was
> that you can provide a billion little interactions, and you're still not
> gonna get to that full simulationist world--and that once you get there,
> it may not be fun.
Hmm... Simple "simulationist" worlds can be great fun. Predesigned levels
does of course help, but (AI) heuristics could help you with that.
Predesigned classic simulation fun:
Boulder Dash
Lemmings
Generated classic simulation fun:
Elite
Populous
Worms
Btw, realism wasn't an issue in those games. If destruction is more fun than
building => let the system (re)build.
Your problem probably is in creating a medieval simulation. That's a
dramatic problem, not a simulation problem? Maybe that is a problem local to
UO and not a general MUD problem?
--
Ola