Re: [spoon-discuss] Lots of stuff

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 11:02  PM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 3/27/03 at 8:19 PM Daniel Lepage wrote:
>
> > On a Guide
> >
> > You know what would be helpful, if the grid is going to become
> > obscenely complicated in the near future? An Object Guide. It could be
> > stored as part of the object database mentioned above - under, say, 
> > Big
> > Stick, you'd find it's mass, type, uses, and a 'description' string,
> > which might read, say,
> > "The Big Stick, as the name suggests, is simply a large piece of wood.
> > Specifically, they tend to be about three feet long, thicker at one 
> > end
> > than the other, and somewhat bumpy and rough-hewn. It is the crudest
> > weapon to be found on the Grid, being useful only to hit things; as
> > such, it is very simple, and requires almost no intelligence to use.
> > Naturally, Ogres love it.
> >
> > Big Sticks can be found pretty much anywhere, and there is almost
> > always at least one on the Grid at any given time."
> >
> > If we had a basic syntax system, such as those employed by Wiki pages,
> > such entries could be made to contain tables, links to the other
> > objects they mention,
>
> The problem with such a guide is that it would have to change exactly 
> as often as the ruleset to be genuinely useful.  I think I suggested 
> this once before...What about splitting objects off into a separate 
> rules listing?  That way they can be indexed by name, they can have 
> descriptions that in fact are their rules, they can reference other 
> objects in the same object listing or rules in the main rules 
> listing...and they might be more readily integrated into the class 
> system talked about earlier.

A separate object ruleset would be very useful; it also might help to 
have a society devoted to the maintenance of this site, a 'Ministry of 
Documentation", perhaps...

--
Wonko

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