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From: J C Lawrence <claw@under.engr.sgi.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 18:22:51 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 6 May 1998 16:36:27 -0500 (CDT)
Dan Shiovitz<dbs@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> (On a vaguely related note, what are the people who are planning on
> non-disappearing characters (ie, when you quit, your characters
> stays in the game world) doing about telling the player what went on
> since they were last there?
I create a logfile of all the IO that they would have received if they
had been logged in. I also allow simple pattern searches (grep
actually) of that log for interesting items.
As this log can get large, I currently trim it to the last RL day.
The hope was that time travel would allow accounting for the rest.
> I guess if you support the database-replay thing you could just
> print out exactly what happened, but that might be a lot of screen
> scroll if they were gone for a long time.
Quite.
> Maybe some way to summarize the info? "While you were gone, nothing
> much happened. You continued your research into Air Magic." or
> "While you were gone, a bunch of angry orcs invaded your tower and
> burned it to the ground. You barely escaped with your life, went to
> a tavern to drown your sorrows, and the next thing you knew you were
> in bed with a tavern wench and a nasty case of VD.")
<ponder>
As I already support scripted behaviour for characters while logged
out, I can easily imagine such scripts inserting lines into the log to
be later preferentially extracted to create a potted summary of the
past events.
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