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From: Wout Mertens <Wout.Mertens@rug.ac.be>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 15:50:52 +0100 (MET)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Alex Oren wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:17:54 -0500, Carter T Shock wrote:
> } I'll never understand why mud-folk have an overwhelming need to explicitly
> } grid the world. That is, determine a minimum feature size (a room, a grid
> } square, etc.) and then index one description for each cell in the grid.
>
> I think it simplifies the game.
>
> E.g, in a non-grid system, if you qant to go north, how far will you go?
How about superimposing a grid? That way you combine the ease of
programming of the first with the ease of use of the second....
WOut.