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> From: Cris Jacobin <jacobin@BELLATLANTIC.NET>
> To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
> Subject: Re: [INFO] Patches, FTP, and flying elephants.
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 1997 1:39 PM
>
> Agreed.
>
> However, having few builders, creation moves slowly. It would be
> quite hard to have attracted my current lot of alpha testers to my
> under-development mud if it only had 50 rooms and 6-7 npc's. [AD] "10
new
> rooms and another npc comming next week!"
>
> I'm therefore forced to accept reality and for now use the areas
> that came with the distribution, and they're in bad shape. It's a
> necessary evil for my builders to allocate resources to fix/balance
things
> as they come up.
>
Pretty logical thinking there actually. However with this line of
thinking
everything will be easier in the short run, and turn into a real nightmare
in
the long run. Depends on how fast you want your mud open..
> We thought about this long and hard, and decided the opposite
that
> you have. Code ended up with the higher priority.
>
There needs to be a balance. Ive seen some CircleMUDs with stock
code but with a well balanced, large world, that have been much more
enjoyable to play than muds with stock zones and a great code base.
As long as the players have plenty of room to breathe, explore, and
don't get tired of the same old zones, then I think that you have a winning
mud, regardless of core code changes.
> As for your opinion that muds using the stock areas, should have
> their imp's decapitated...Do you really think Circle would be as a
popular
> a codebase if it came only with Migaard for, 'testing and examples'?
>
No, it wouldn't be, but that specific example is not saying anything good
for circle except that people who have no patience, desire, and willpower
can get a fully functional mud up in 5 minutes. And this is not
Circle-specific.
I think that testing and example zones might seperate the "men from the
boys" in the area of "now who _really_ wants to make this happen".
It's pretty evident when people will spend 6 days looking for a utility
to
patch their mud with an upgrade when the patch itself is only 40 lines.
> -jac
> ButterMud - telnet://betterbox.net:4000
>
>
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