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Old 11-16-2010, 11:30 AM   #19
scandum
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Re: YART (Yet Another RPI Thread)

You should look into utilizing if you're planning to create a MUD listing.

The protocol allows for mud listings to extend the variable set, so you could create an extended variable set to further categorize roleplaying muds. For the best results you'd want community feedback, be prepared for drama and a subsequent headache if you do so, but it will give the best final result.

One variable I've been thinking of adding to the main set is the ERA variable with a list of clear eras to choose from, such as Dark Ages, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary, Near Future, Distant Future, Various, and None.

For roleplaying it might also be useful to distinguish between low and high fiction, and hard and soft fiction. The biggest challenge here is finding variable names, and that most mud developers are unfamiliar with the terms and their meaning. SCIENTIFIC RIGOR Low/Medium/High and HISTORICAL RIGOR Low/Medium/High come to mind as self explanatory terms.

I can provide a MSSP crawler for anyone who's interested in creating a directory and doesn't want to write one from scratch.
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