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6975: [MUD-Dev] Re: Standard Mud Room Format?
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From: Holly Sommer <hsommer@micro.ti.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:52:39 -0500 (CDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, plateau wrote:
> Okay, so I guess the format wouldn't encompass too much detail, but
> still; has a "standard (global?) room format" already been done?
There isn't a standard "format", but as you pointed out there are indeed
standard "features."
> Is it
> more popular to just write code to convert existing room formats (LPC,
> Tiny, Diku, etc) to your own format (so you could use those snazzy
> editors instead)? Or is it a complete waste of time?
IMO, unless you are dealing with converting stock areas between two stock
MUDs (read: coders on either MUD haven't made any changes to any structs
or objects), it's an increasingly wasted amount of time. Even between
revisions of the same server/mudlib, you will have incompatabilities
where data will be lost or misinterpreted - and that's on the same MUD!
Diversity is a good thing... it lets us express ourselves exactly as we
intend to... but it also makes it difficult to express our own
colloquialisms in someone else's vernacular.
-Holly