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Old 02-01-2004, 10:51 AM   #53
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Wow, nice to see this thread brought back to life! :)

Here is something which transcends codebase. Read my comments below before reading the artical.



Remember the days when a search for just about anything on the net resulted in a million sites which flooded their meta tags with bogus generic search words? Notice that that's much less of a problem now? This is because Google uses a beautiful mathematical technique, described in the above artical, where a site is "weighted" based on the sum of the weights of the sites which link to it. Yes, this definition is circular! But it works. Read the artical for more info.

So how does this apply to building tricks?! Use a similar method to "weight" the rooms on your mud, where instead of counting hyperlinks, you count exits, portals, transport progs, etc. Then, use the weights to determine how much effort to put into designing those rooms.

Keep posting your own building ideas: for we are the disciples of Aule and Yavanna, and must ever strive for greater subtlety and beauty in all that we devise.
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