[MUD-Dev] Re: The 'consider' command

[Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt <hhs#cbs,dtu.dk>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Richard Woolcock wrote:

> For those who haven't been following rec.games.mud.diku, I thought you
> might be interested in taking a look at the following post.
> 

>In article <35e94634.5921764#newshost,micro.ti.com>, lewiszephyr#hotmail,com says...
>>>Basically, everytime you look, you notice something new. The ability to
>>>consider should determine how much info you can notice on a given
>>>consider, so someone who's not too bright may only notice one thing at a
>>>time, but others can notice even discreet mannerisms.

A short warning. If you use some seeded pseudo random function to
determine what 'new' things you would notice, a person can get a
very good picture (asymtotically correct) of all elements. They just
have to 'sample' and average the information over several feedbacks 
(much like you can get accurate GPS readings on a stationary location). 
A fix is to use the same seed over a long period of time (minutes). So
the player would have to 'work' to get a clearer picture, which would
be consistent with the concept of observing something for a longer 
period of time to learn about it.


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