[blackmojo]

is the hunt skill a common thing in muds ?


You pick up the trail.
The trail to your prey leads east. It is poor

[Ghostcat]

Pretty common, yep.

[KaVir]

Pretty common, and also very quick and easy to implement, although some muds use "track" to provide information while "hunt" automatically chases the target. I created my own solution for GodWars back in 1995, inspired by an even older public snippet, and I've seen a number of other versions floating around over the years. from 1993 that was recently cleaned up, if you're looking for something to get you started.

[blackmojo]

ya legend mud does not have the auto function ,but i've made triggers for that so its not so bad and legend has a locate spell that tells you a room name . if you can't cast spells you can buy a wand at a shop that has like 5 or 6 uses

[Achon]

So, does the game have to record the track targets entire path (through room exits)?

Or, store their [the targets] last exit in the room structure somewhere, with perhaps a set limit on how many individual tracks can be stored in each room?

What are the common methods to implement this?



Nevermind, I see the . Wouldn't a tree be better than a hash table here?