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Ogma · 10-10-2003, 04:46 AM

Let me get this straight...you want your builders to make their very own implementations of a base room? If they want a different kind of room, why not inherit /std/room.c and override functions in it? The whole philosophy of LPMUDs is based on reusing code and layers of inheritance. Each layer adds flexibility, it doesn't take it away.

We've suffered no lack of flexibility in our design by having a single base room object that all rooms have at the root of their inheritance tree, and we do some pretty funky things with it, such as our Underdark area, which creates rooms on the fly and our hex grid system for wilderness travel.

10-10-2003, 04:46 AM	#3
Ogma Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Home MUD: DartMUD Posts: 86	Let me get this straight...you want your builders to make their very own implementations of a base room? If they want a different kind of room, why not inherit /std/room.c and override functions in it? The whole philosophy of LPMUDs is based on reusing code and layers of inheritance. Each layer adds flexibility, it doesn't take it away. We've suffered no lack of flexibility in our design by having a single base room object that all rooms have at the root of their inheritance tree, and we do some pretty funky things with it, such as our Underdark area, which creates rooms on the fly and our hex grid system for wilderness travel.