Dark, We actually use a ton of tricks like this on the Alter Aeon server, with everything from damage messages to bottled potions, brews, soulstones, and unique items. One of the coolest things about modern games in my mind are the randomly generated things that are occasionally really, really cool. Pretty much everything on AA is random number generator driven, and the random number generator is used literally tens of thousands of times per second while we're running.
(For those of you interested, the AA server uses an 8 by 32 bit MWC PRNG, which is really fast and high enough quality for pretty much any kind of game. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply-with-carry/ for details.) Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:56 AM, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > all that is very true, also in terms of text sinse the english language > contains so many descriptive words, having the game randomly select a couple > can give the appearence of new items or descriptions even though it is only > selecting from a pool, which can completely change the feeling of the game. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
