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4772: Re: [MUD-Dev] Net protocols for MUDing (was: Moore's Law sucks)
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From: Vadim Tkachenko <vadimt@4cs.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 20:06:17 -0600
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Chris Gray wrote:
>
> [Vadim Tkachenko:]
>
> :Say, if it's a spaceship, I'd pretend to have some sort of a self-check,
> :which takes some time to complete and switches on in any dangerous
> :situation. And, if your fuel tank got hit, you don't explode
> :immediately, do you?
>
> No, but once your fuel tank is hit, the physics of the situation proceeds
> apace and it explodes. Look at it the other way around - the action by
> the "behind" player prevents a quicker explosion, that the "ahead" player
> has already seen. So, the "ahead" player sees his ship start to explode,
> and then a second or two later, the explosion is mysteriously cancelled,
> with no record of it every actually happening. As a player, I'm not sure
> I'd like that.
That's what I'm saying - don't make anything appear as final until all
the conflicts and lags are resolved - in the above example, the ship
wouldn't appear to explode and then cancel, but will just have some
sparks around it for a while, which will cease if it turns out there
were no actual damages.
> Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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