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15632: RE: [MUD-Dev] trade skill idea

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From: Matthew Mihaly <the_logos@achaea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:36:05 +0000 (GMT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Koster, Raph wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu 
> > [mailto:mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> > Josh Olson
> > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:23 PM
> > To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> > Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] trade skill idea
> > 
> 
> > But trade skills are ultimately formal processes with static 
> > components and predefined outcomes.
> 
> I used this line already, but... pfft. That's only because they have been
> made so thus far. They don't have to be. Heck, I can make a combat system
> that is a formal process with static components and predefined outcomes.
> Nobody would call that fun. But nobody would claim that was the only way it
> had to be. Why say the same for crafting?

Outcomes of combat: Death/submission of player. Death/submission of
monster. Player or monster move. Player and monster cease hostilities.

The existence of a set of predefined outcomes doesn't mean something isn't
fun.

--matt




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