Re: Ok, next question. (fwd)

From: Robert A. Vegas (rovegas@cs.nmsu.edu)
Date: 09/09/94


On Fri, 9 Sep 1994, Jeff Teker Fink wrote:

> 
> Now, here's a list of what needs to be saved when you log back in:
> 	Rent status		(now crash rent, and some items may have
> 				 been lost due to lack of money)
> 	Gold/Bank Gold
> 	Hps/ Move/ Mana		(you regen if you rent for an hour)
> 	Last on time
> 
> One point is that you can't charge people for rent at save time since
> you don't know how long they're going to rent for, until they come back.
> Now while this may be a small list of things to save, keep in mind that
> just about any time you save, relatively small changes have occurred.
> Things like experience and gold change rapidly, as well as items carried,
> and spells cast on you, but nothing else really changes often.  So any
> time you save, nothing much is being updated (although you could argue
> over importance of things saved)
> 
> -Jeff
> 
Hehe, I guess I kinda forgot about how the renting thing is like. I'm so 
used to the Merc 'save where you are' thing. :)  Ok, that makes sense for 
renting I guess. For other things well, that's debatable... Anyways, I 
think I've had enough of this thing.  Thanks for the enlightenment. ;)



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