> ObCircle: With all of these Midieval muds, ever
> consider using a timer to cast spells. I mean spells
> don't just get casted instantaneously. Maybe a
> timer, where at every tic counting down, it sends the
> message "$n is uttering some magical words and
> drawing energy from the universe." in an act line
> TO_ROOM or something. Then after the specified
> number of ticks of the timer, three seconds or so,
> the spell is then casted.
Try an event queue.
This has actually been discussed before on this list,
so you might want to search the archive.
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