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From: "Felix A. Croes" <felix@xs1.simplex.nl>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 22:55:45 +0200 (MET DST)
Organization: Kanga.Nu
coder@ibm.net wrote:
> On 28/08/97 at 09:33 AM, "Felix A. Croes" <felix@xs1.simplex.nl> said:
>
> >Removing resets leads towards a mud ecology, as far as killing
> >monsters is concerned. But if quests do not reset, it means that you
> >can only do them once. But that implies that a quest can only be
> >solved by a single person, unless each solved quest forks off a new
> >alternate universe: one in which this particular player has solved
> >the quest.
>
> Not true. This was discussed recently in the recet-less game thread
> that AlexO started. Many systems were postulated to create quests
> that regenerated, yet were not constant or predictable.
What I wrote was carelessly worded. I meant to introduce the idea of
creating parallel universes as an alternative to those systems, which
I described as "ecologies". For my own mud, I use both.
>[...]
> Nathan does much along this line.
So I learned. I can only applaud his good ideas. :)
Felix Croes