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From: Nathan F.Yospe <yospe@kanga.nu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:40:09 -0000
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Madrona Tree <madronatree@hotmail.com> said:
> It was a pretty good way to handle it under the setup we had (but
> also failed miserably on a sister-server which allowed multiple
> characters), but I would prefer to see other muds go further.
> Perhaps something like:
> - Split Baking Bread into sub-categories, such as baking, cooking,
> camp-cooking.
> - Split Tailoring into tailoring leather, tailoring "utility
> clothes" and tailoring dress-up clothes. If your game has colors,
> make Dying a skill (maybe it comes automatically with having
> enough of a tailoring skill?).
> - Split Smithing into weapons, armor, and utility-smithing
> (knives, wagon-wheels, what-have-you).
> - etc and so on.
> So that if I wanted to become the Consummate Tailor, there would be
> a whole bunch of separate skills I could learn... but if all I
> really cared about was tailoring Utility Clothes, I'd just have to
> spend a small amount of my alotted points on that particular skill,
> leaving a bunch of other points available
You might want to search the archives (waaaaay back) on "Skill Web".
I know we've got some useful approaches for this sort of thing in
there.
--
Nathan F. Yospe email: yospe@kanga.nu nyospe@a2i.com nyospe@pacbell.net
Don't mind me, I'm just insane - there's someone else here, in my brain.
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