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This was originally a personal note file that now seemed worth
publishing. Therefore it is rather sloppy. Feel free to ask me
to clean it up.

"mpMUD" was my experimental MUD server project at the time.

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http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q4/msg00267.php
Skotos: mpMUD-style property-only inheritance

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q4/msg00309.php
System that makes it infeasible to advance without being nice to other players.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q4/msg00387.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00013.php
Topic list for 1999

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00037.php
How to explain player reincarnation, communication: they're all robots!

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00172.php
More thoughts on consensual actions.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00407.php
How to make special/"magic" items interesting.

(Personal thought: If your NPCs can advance, and if chars can learn-by-doing, then the NPCs are going to soon become perfect at their jobs. And, if the NPCs can do this, then so will your players. The solution is to make sure repetitively doing the same thing _DOES NOT_ help you advance.)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00414.php
Skotos Proximity System - a Technical Summary

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00442.php
A skill system that requires the involvement of newbies.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00497.php
Three tons of interesting stuff.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00666.php
Path Finding Via 'Ant Races'  (a floodfill algorithm)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00697.php
"Pummeling small furry animals does not a hero make."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00701.php
Skotos Bulk System - a Technical Summary
"The densities of some common materials are:
   * Wood    0.7
   * Water   1.0
   * Iron    7.8"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00751.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00759.php
The impact of one's position on the perception of a story.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00802.php
What NOT to present newbies with.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00811.php
Telnet implementations in mud clients

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00824.php
Auto-generated world and stories.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00883.php
"Ten commandments for the next MMORPG "

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00958.php
The 10 basic rules of a good PvP system 

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg00999.php
Social advancement.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg01170.php
"Report: MUD-Dev dinner of 10 June 2000"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q2/msg01296.php
More offline activities.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00019.php
Creathing characters based on the player's initial choices in a situation

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00055.php
Character creation questions

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00067.php
Automatically decrease effectiveness of overused skills/damage types/etc.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00100.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00110.php
Combat tactics, JCL's mana system

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00114.php
Introductions

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00250.php
(mud.dusk.org 7000),http://dusk.org/BloodDusk/combat.html

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00396.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00452.php
Cheating in online games

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00481.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00520.php
on PvP mud, wipes players when one side has clearly become superior.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00546.php
Good thoughts on the Tenarius/wimping/wiping issue.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg00550.php
An anecdote on admin mistakes, rectification of.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg01006.php
Why volunteers are good - and what not to do to them.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg01014.php
About tweaking game balance.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q3/msg01195.php
Do's and dont's of combat

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q4/msg00560.php
"Teams" a way of determining NPC actions based on loyalties

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q4/msg00595.php
Limiting eq hoarding

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1996/msg00027.php
Why simple Diku-style mob actions aren't smart enough

The beginning of 1997Q1 has a lot of discussion about roomless worlds.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00052.php
Yospe: "TuringAIs are designed to convince Players that they are Players, thus upping the apparent Player density... and forcing people to look alive, lest they be mistaken for a poorly designed TuringAI."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00079.php
Why "realism" / "depth" is good for fun

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00085.php
Adam Wiggins describes lots of useful/complicated/fun detail:
  Equipment fitting
  Equipment layering
  Object structure layering
  Penetration of objects, arrow flying thru grate or flying thru flesh
  types of drugs

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00102.php
This guy is taking the same position as I do for mpMUD: the objects store only their attributes, and not the commands for accessing them. This way, you don't have two different ways to do similar things (LP syndrome)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00123.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00126.php
A population model to avoid resets.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00133.php
VT102 codes

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00156.php
A detailed specification: AmalgaMUD

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00158.php
Ah, yes: the Trash Collectors and the mana system.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00182.php
"Enforced roleplaying"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00193.php
How to handle things that should be random, but not change in-use, like hiding in a room: put together a bunch of values, like for hiding in a room: instead of say, using a 1d100 for determining if you see the hidden char, use (room# + you# + they#) * 3894 % 100.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q1/msg00222.php
The Crystalline Tree

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00023.php
The +/- mana again

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00036.php
"Wounds and trauma"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00037.php
*** A very detailed wear locations system

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00047.php
Rampant body-stealing (?)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00977.php
"Habitat Anecdotes"


http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00147.php
Good thoughts on combat

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00159.php
A good system for rumors

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00284.php
NLP, "plant pot plant in plant pot"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00433.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00485.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00498.php
Teaching skills

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00688.php
"Let there be light!" "What kind?" Programming as an IC operation.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00726.php
Some incredible (-y insane) world constructions that actually exist.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00740.php
And a reply to the above.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg00766.php
Just what the N food groups are good for.

2001Q1 [MUD-Dev] Player Created Object System
How to create a combining/modifying object system with tools

2001Q1 RE: [MUD-Dev] Player Created Object System
<FC15F916EC764C42A4219BC30BFBC0720772F8@control.central.ccp.cc>
"Deconstruction" system

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg01245.php
History of Island MUD, "E", 

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg01269.php
'Types of admins'

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg01379.php
*** Martin Keegan does FMTYEWTK on name generation

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg01406.php
Some way through a thread on 'more "realistic" dragons'

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg01513.php
*giggle*

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q2/msg01569.php


http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00076.php
Resuming Q3 here

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00159.php
Virtual drugs

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00160.php
Info on crossbows

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00166.php
More missiles

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00189.php
...Calculating impact of projectiles

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00275.php
"MUD-Dev is a MUD"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00288.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00327.php
Chemistry, atmosphere

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00336.php
Marian's alchemy

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00339.php
More on matrix alchemy

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00417.php
"Spellcaster" game

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00467.php
There's no such thing as a junk object!

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00474.php
Summary of JCL's mud

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00473.php
"Why use the chair?  If you're an 8 foot ogre, you could use the innkeeper."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00480.php
JCL's particle-based world

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00495.php
Yow! Fancy mana flow!

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00519.php
Realistic carrying (no inventory) therefore using what's in your hands as a weapon; funny examples

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00522.php
"This document is a record of the development of the Demonscape MUD."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00532.php
Re: msg00473

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00559.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00574.php
""Kill every tenth man and then tell them to work faster!""


http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00603.php
Finding Space

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00608.php
Body parts, berserkers, character reactions

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00636.php
Edibility

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00745.php
A 'drugs/poisons' system. Looks like it could fit in well with my affects.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00767.php
"They're Only Kobolds"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00865.php
NPC combat AI

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg00885.php
See above

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01108.php
"MAGE 2 MAGE Spell System"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01115.php
JCL's described world

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01162.php
Constancy is boring (JCL)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01198.php
Peculiar D&D 

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01237.php
Realism isn't always fun, detail isn't always fun, hard-to-learn isn't fun, you can't design for everyone, NLP is bad, unavoidable deaths (DTs) aren't fun.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01249.php
"Sorry I felt a song coming on.  
<This is intended as good clean silliness> :)
....
Imagine there's no resets
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to repeatably kill and die for
And unique equipment too
...
"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01264.php
Players as insignificant in the game world (JCL)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01268.php
"You cannot simutaneously have 1) everything created by hand and 2) let players be destructive."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01277.php
Jokes have their place.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01287.php
Stuff on mud usability.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01312.php
Verbs can't be not ambiguous.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01333.php
'Diku/LP/this modes', interesting procedures,...

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01352.php
The list = Idea testing

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01373.php
MUD1 interesting interaction in items.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01408.php
Misc stuff, but it made this point:
<<"get on the horse", "get out of the pit" are
valid examples of how "get" isn't "get" any more.>>
However, 'get' still means 'to acquire something', but the "something" is a state (your position) rather than an object.


http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01420.php
> get the penultimate rock
Hey! It actually parsed that correctly!

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01424.php
More about "dance the dragon is coming".

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01432.php
More good stuff on dancing/acting/emoting...

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01437.php
Customized generic powers for social positions.


http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01501.php
Good thoughts on "fairness", magic,

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q3/msg01520.php
Teaching combat

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00018.php
101 Spells Not Worth Memorizing
*** Read this for ideas for spell failure

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00084.php
The Trap Collection

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00085.php
The Trap Collection - Volume II

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00088.php
crn

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00301.php
Making an attractive _game_.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00303.php
A beautiful trap.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00309.php
Auto-generated character descriptions.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00326.php
Interesting side note on "should the game take over control of the character?" : unknowingly giving offense.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00359.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00421.php
More reproducing/spreading creatures (TC-ish, but not the same)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00432.php
What can thieves do?

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00453.php
Ditto

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00463.php
Complex tightly-interrelated systems tend to reject invaders

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00552.php
Designing a World Checklist

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00586.php
"Heh that reminds me of something I was thinking about earlier today - reversing the roles of players and mobs."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00648.php
UO's "notoriety" system, and an interesting consequence of 'righteous playerkillers'.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00717.php
Killfest mudding to another extreme, and a bit of deception too (JCL)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00722.php
"I wish," said a possible tree
"That someone would come stare at me;

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00723.php
Derrick Jones's commentary on AD&D (?? edition) alignments

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00840.php
In the middle of a thread about how deities acquire power

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg00922.php
"A reasonably safe situation is  where the ability to snoop a player can only be granted by another admin  not doing the checking.  This way you must explain to somebody else why you want to log or snoop a player be- fore you get the ability. It should prevent the 'bored imm snooping the player' syndrome."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1997Q4/msg01014.php
JCL's time travel system - effectively, everything is logged, therefore there are no privacy issues with viewing logs.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q1/msg00121.php
Shopkeepers without fixed prices for items (supply vs demand, bartering, buying player-created items)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q1/msg00188.php

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q1/msg00329.php
A clear description of how to generate and display BSP trees

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q1/msg00609.php
"Tutorial: Let's build a Compiler! - Part I: Introduction"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q1/msg00643.php
Morton codes (space-filling curve, or sorting key)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q1/msg00697.php
AnarchyMOO

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q1/msg00707.php
Designing adventure games, including a description of how to avoid unfair puzzles.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q1/msg00804.php
A rough system for extracting the meaning from player speech. (Matt Chatterley)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00068.php
Ah yes, teleporting troubles.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00167.php
Interesting ideas for a PK-arena mud. (see rest of thread, too)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00203.php
Whoa. A fascinating tale of a player-built city in UO. (Raph Koster)

*** In 1998Q2, MUD-Dev went public.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00736.php
Idea about player groups: in some ways, treat them as one character (e.g. all haul on the rope).

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00218.php
"Would you rather fight a player or a mob?"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00269.php
User interface design

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00303.php
World features changing based on player activity (including deities, hmmm) (JCL)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00309.php
Building things out of components

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00372.php
"That is; when I first started playing muds, I imagined them as being carefully-balanced game worlds modeled in intricate..."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00380.php
What's good about roguelikes

Raph Koster's essays:
http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00473.php
"A Story About A Tree"
http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00474.php
"What Rough Beast?" (Virtues)
http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00476.php
"Who Are These People Anyway?"
http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00477.php
"So Let's Get Practical..."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00479.php
"MURKLE: Wot it is" JCL's server info

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00505.php
Sanity

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00523.php
Unplayable classes aren't.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00547.php
Tree story has an impact (JCL)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00548.php
Raph's essay #5 "The Man Behind the Curtain" - impersonality of government and the consequences

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00562.php
"Is There a There in Cyberspace?" (long)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00567.php
AR Mining System (see replies)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00587.php
""MURKLE: Wot it is" continued

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00592.php
Thoughts on good beginning-player-learning

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00593.php
Ditto, and also: let the newbie do everything, just not as well (i.e. no "level"-based binary restrictions)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00651.php
Travis Casey defines 3 types of PKers: Vultures, Hunters, and Bullies

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00655.php
Combat

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00672.php
Here's an idea for usage-based skill advancement: Only one advance allowed per <time>. Thus using it, you learn, but spamming doesn't help.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00698.php
Good UI on login

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00702.php
JCL idea: deity resurrects character if your death was 'accidental' (tho not that blunt)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00797.php
"A Metaphysics System " - sounds good

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00650.php
Interesting combat damage system (scroll down)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00863.php
JCL says more on his mana flow, including a system for tending to produce high-speed blobs of mana particles.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00880.php
"...provide reward-paths that just "accidentally"
happen to lead elsewhere than the behaviour you'd like to avoid."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg00957.php
Problems with visibility: you turned off the light switch, now you can't find it to turn it on!

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg01039.php
Thread: "stuff that makes me leave"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg01083.php
Worse is Better in software design

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg01158.php
a Wired article on UO - social interactions, both "high" and "low"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg01159.php
Wired&UO again: tale of a newbie

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg01226.php
"Marcus Ranum" talks with JCL on MUD design, efficiency issues

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q2/msg01239.php
Idea regarding the tailor problem: hire NPC bodyguards.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00059.php
A dialogue on controlling PK

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00230.php
More on "linked but distinct" worlds.
"Would that piss off the demons?  Very probably.  How do summoned demons react when summoned in most roleplaying games?  Very pissed off.  The intended result... intelligent, dangerous, well roleplayed demons that the roleplayers think are mobs"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00345.php
*sigh*. In the middle of a discussion on JCL's Rank Points, Caliban thinks up the same deity system as I was planning.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00353.php
"The realism I added was originally entirely at request. The things they had asked for, though. Should have known better than to invite my P&P group. If they had a base to infiltrate, with underground sections... Jon tried depth charges... in the old room-based post-diku. And *expected them to work*!!"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00378.php
Types of fun

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00391.php
Autodetecting ANSI color

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00463.php
"This allows very easy support for such things as Tarzan finding the rainforest entirely docile and safe, as versus Bubba seeming to trip over rabid carnivores and other death dealing critters and circumstances at every other step."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00706.php
The problem with elaborate descriptions of happenings: "cut out the cheap novella prose and just tell me the damn information already!"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00707.php
Making realistic, distinct, and smart enemies.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00767.php
PK and NPC-killing as opposites
(part of a big Tailor thread)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00798.php
Brandon J. Rickman writes 3 pages on discouraging killers

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00799.php
User interface design

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00842.php
Caliban talks about his server design, and of another program, he says: "I was drunk when I wrote it, and while it *works*, I have never been able to figure out how."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00863.php
On observation skills, 'consider'

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00902.php
JCL beats Quake, has played Descent

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00906.php
Equipment adapting to wearer ("new shoes")

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00945.php
Interesting things on creating traps

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00971.php
Penalties of death and the tailor problem

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg00975.php
SlashMUD release announcement

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01005.php
UO's player-run shops (sounds good)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01022.php
Flash crowds

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01066.php
Social consequences of 'evil' and 'good' player groups, starting in different locations, no player names.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01119.php
Another magic system

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01137.php
More magic

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01141.php
Legend's moods system, and how they break speech into nicer pieces

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01210.php
Even more magic (Travis Casey's paper system)
See replies.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01254.php
Magic again - Caliban proposes a system with no discernible connection between input (spell name, components, maybe player ID) and effects.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01271.php
See 1210, continuation?

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01289.php
The "You feel..." issue in room descriptions (Caliban, see prev by thread)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01292.php
Orion Henry says: don't include feelings or _events_ in room descs, make actual objects and occurrences.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01308.php
"Now, should the admins be present in the game as characters?" (Travis Casey)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01333.php
"Can someone send me some mana?"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01334.php
"Is unix a mud" produces a thought on what makes a mud, partly: the awareness of others in the world.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01353.php
"Unix IS a mud" as joke

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q3/msg01384.php
*** Actual system for autogenerating room descriptions

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00008.php
Implementing emotional states in the character (actual example: berserk rage in combat)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00089.php
Counter-quests: an opportunity for player conflict.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00091.php
Bullies, not "virtual sociopaths"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00128.php
Alex Stewart asks, "What are your current projects?" and gets replies

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00147.php
Laws of Online World Design 

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00152.php
Bartle tells of the origin of "MUD".

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00162.php
"You can howver create knee-deep cow patties and semi-implement admobe construction." (JCL)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00188.php
Fight the players and work with them, too

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00228.php
"TTYQuake"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00318.php
*** "Better brief mode": In room descs, display only NEW elements (e.g. traveling thru forest, not much desc, enter city, lots of desc)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00326.php
Part of a thread on a good/evil war mud and !ALIGN flags

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00381.php
The DevMUD thread (a bit late). They seem to be discussing modules that are very like mpMUD modules.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00402.php
Golgotha source release (3d rendering, Lisp interpreter)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00827.php
Middle of a thread on chemistry, as applied to MUD objects...

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00835.php
"The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics" recommended by Nathan Yospe

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00883.php
How to compute distances on a hex grid represented by a squished square grid


http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00068.php
*** Thread: route finding for NPCs

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00109.php
An approach to route-finding I've given some thought to - get onto a 'highway' then decide where to go from there

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00151.php
Caliban's "candidate" laws

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00157.php
Maybe freely switching skill sets isn't a good idea: starting over can be fun.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00218.php
Some player-run bots

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00303.php
"Immortality" that doesn't mean immune-to-damage... (Quzah)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00432.php
"The Terrorist Class" - another MOO social experiment

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00504.php
Achea's Gods and events that occurred

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00547.php
Object identification, searching, "directories", sounds like mpMUD's indexes

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00620.php
Yospe says " There is nothing in those traditional Diku/LP descriptions a good program (I'm refering to my own) can't match or better."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00009.php
Good language system

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00034.php
Sign language can be useful, and reasons to put 'depth' features like languages in your world

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00148.php
"Harvey's Rules of Immship "

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00204.php
JCL speaks of his visual rendering (360-degree)

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00230.php
JCL responds to a "planes" idea

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00250.php
*** VERY GOOD IDEA: dynamic descs get "importance" rating on the pieces - and maybe importance for happenings too.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00251.php
Caliban's world has no problem with players already knowing things

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00254.php
What's magic?

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00255.php
Powerful magic critters

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00261.php
Re: importance, dynamic descs

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00303.php
How NOT to make a command interpreter

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00392.php
Yet again: NLP, allowing engl-ish-parsing, NLP is bad, NLP is useful, NLP is not really the right thing

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00396.php
Goal oriented interface?

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00409.php
Bad grammar not common.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00415.php
Maybe engl-ish parsing is good for newbies. "I have seen that there is a large tendency for them to be typing in well-formed sentences, and getting unhelpful responses from the parser..."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00419.php
Raph says: "This is a typical log from a total newbie at LegendMUD..."

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00433.php
Guess the noun is as bad as guess the verb...

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00477.php
Caliban describes Ultimate Universe

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00481.php
Matt (Achea) describes how mudding feels to him

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00570.php
Problems with newbie helping

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00623.php
Greg Munt tells about administration politics and women

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00631.php
"Here's a list of games/activities that I'd like to see implemented on a mud:
Tag or Blind Man's bluff
Team Croquet
Karoake
Multi-player card games, like Hearts, Canasta, Bridge or Euchre
Baseball, Football or Cricket
Ballroom dancing"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00656.php
A failed social experiment ("Color Wars")

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00691.php
Snapshot of Raph's Laws of Online World Design

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00702.php
*** UO's (originally planned) resource model and mobile AI - good, use this for ideas...

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00708.php
How to keep resources in circulation

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00782.php
Caliban sez: players-are-monsters, when someone kills you, you swap bodies with them.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q2/msg00864.php
John Bertoglio: trying to cause "role-playing" in interacting with NPCs

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q3/msg00092.php
Good idea for the players-in-same-spot allowing blocking in tile-based games: allow passing through unless they're "hostile"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q3/msg00396.php
"Or, similarly, have many spells that are "close" to actual spells which are useless or catastrophic... It might make sense that "whip monster with chains" might be close to "whip monster with peacock feathers""

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q3/msg00506.php
Excellent results from a pretty basic description generator

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q3/msg00504.php
Those new to mudding are more sensitive to 'what I can't do'

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00001.php
"Creating a [Good] First Impression" - how to make a good splash screen / login / char creation/ etc

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00028.php
Achaea: proposed weather system

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00436.php
Advice for how to handle administration: one person in charge, no player rights (it's your house), etc.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00476.php
Good general soccial thoughts for muds

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00480.php
JCL: "The ur-object joins the ranks of the anonymous aggregate object!" - and more problems with ur-objects

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00542.php
He's got the right idea about what MUDs are

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00588.php
Dynamic, modifiable, coordinate-based world - sounds just like my ideas

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00602.php
Ditto.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q4/msg00645.php
Proposal: 'Pseudo-fractal' world generation - more efficient...

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/msg00053.php
Why Quake is better than VRML

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/msg00162.php
What should the imms look like when interacting with players?

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/msg00163.php
A reply to above

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/msg00364.php
Stock MUDs are the establishment

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/msg00387.php
"Next gen MUD wishlist"

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/msg00473.php
*** Part of a NPC responses thread - good design for a goal system

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/msg00675.php
Thread: Fixed class hierarchies vs. attributes

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/msg00740.php
Here's a good idea: Instead of IP banning, stuff the player and any new ones from the same IP in a sealed room.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2001Q2/msg01460.php
"Focus on Hocus Pocus": a good thread on magic systems

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2001Q2/msg01519.php
Raph Koster has some thoughts about how the "downtime" of a game (time spent in recovery, pit stop, bases, etc) affects socialization.

http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2001Q2/msg01693.php
Ability to follow other players leads to long chains of followers as inter-location transportation, with everyone but the leader free to socialize