Hello Everyone,
Today I wrote an improved do_consider command that performs a quick
combat simulation based on the hp, thaco, ac, and average damage
of each charater to calculate how long it would take for each character to
kill
the other, expressed as a number of combat rounds. The two times are then
compared to determine the probable victor of combat.
I was going to upload the snippet, but it exceeds the maximum message
length for the list, so I have uploaded it to the ftp site at circlemud.org
The file name is improved_do_consider.txt and I uploaded it into the
incoming directory.
It funny that after doing all this I found a message on the archive site
from Jan 1999 where George Greer posted a version of do_consider
that does essentially the same thing (there are of course some differences).
Here is a link to George's Version:
http://post.queensu.ca/cgi-bin/listserv/wa?A2=ind9901&L=circle&P=R3654
One sleight advatage I see to my version is that since all of the combat
simulation calculations are performed in a separate function called
sim_combat, it can be called from other places in the code. You could
easily make a command to compare any two chars strengths since it
just takes two char pointers as arguments. I guess that could be useful
for placing bets on player vs player combat on a pk mud.
Anyway if you want to replace the do_consider on your mud with something
that does more than compare levels check out either version of the code.
Russ Brown
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