On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Ron Cole wrote: > >>>>More seriously, I'm all for entirely removing the auto title thing > >>>>from stock. > > Something to consider if you want to leave them in, and optional, would be to > load them from a text file. Make it reloadable, like motd and such. If the I've extended this concept further to a whole "file system" of text files (that aren't really text files; it's just one big database file) - that looks like a standard unix filesystem to admins online. All of the text entries can have their individuals lines accessed (e.g. you can do something like get_entry("sys/titles/mage", 1); to get the 1st line of the file sys/titles/mage. They are indexed, so the location of the beginning of each line is kept. Those entries can be edited online and are used for many different things. Plus, I don't need to write another Load_XYZZY and Save_XYZZY and Edit_XYZZY routine - they all use the standard online text editor for editing. Things like MOTD, IMOTD, adverbs for socials, possible appearances for hair/eye color etc. players can pick, messages mob say when they attack someone they remembered, death messages sent when a certain spell/skill is used to kill with, dreams, starting equipment for new players - all defined there, all online editable. ============================================================================= Erwin Andreasen Herlev, Denmark <erwin@pip.dknet.dk> UNIX System Programmer <URL:http://pip.dknet.dk/~erwin/> <*> (not speaking for) DDE ============================================================================= +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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