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From: Adam Wiggins <nightfall@user1.inficad.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 20:44:21 -0700 (MST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
> [Marian:]
> > Anything that distracts players from the numbers (stats and experience) game
> > is definitely desirable in a mud (in my opinion of course).
[Matt:]
> A noble sentiment, and one that I share. It's another reason why, whilst i
> wish to keep the notions of numerative stats, hps, and levels (lets not
> launch that one again.. these are not levels as you might know them, call
> them guild-rankings, whatever), I wish to deal with them internally. The
> player would see "You are very strong, and sturdy, but slow to learn."
> Rather than "Strength: 50, Toughness: 50, Learning: 10", and "You are very
> badly hurt, and bleeding." rather than "HP: 50/200".
Yup. And although there tends to be kick-back to this sort of thing in
the established mud community, I think it actually makes the game *easier*
to get into. One of the first muds I logged on to had an output that
looked something like this:
<right hand> 10
<left hand> 10
<right arm> 25
<left arm> 25
<torso> 75
etc. This was pretty useless to me - I quickly figured out that the list
of numbers was somehow related to the damage level of each limb, but the
numbers were meaningless for a while. I would have understood immediately,
however, if the output had been something like:
You have a nasty cut on your right arm and a bruise on your left leg.