To make death a little more serious than on typical muds but not as bad as permanent death, we had a "death ban." When a character died, they were unable to enter the game again until a certain length of time had passed. For characters up to level 10, there was no ban... characters could enter the game again immediately after dying. For levels 11-20, characters could not reenter the game for an hour. Levels 21 and above could not come back for 24 hours. Players could always play another character while waiting for another one to come back. The only hard part about coding this is the mud really needs to be stable enough to run a while before reboots or crashes, to give players a chance to recover their equipment. Eric +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | | Or send 'info circle' to majordomo@cspo.queensu.ca | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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