RE: [cplp-dev] Game proposal -- realtime turn based

[Joshua K. <kr...@be...>]

All, 
I am very impressed that I pulled my typical sleep till noon and I found
21 messages in my inbox. I hope this enthusiasm remains throughout the
course of the project. 
This will be my mandatory introduction. I am Josh Kruck, krujos on pm
and yahoo messenger. I work for a software company full time and do a
little Perl development there, but its mostly C / C++. My development is
entirely on UNIX, although I do have a windows box to check my email
occasionally. I am also a college student, or what remains of one. I am
getting my last two credits this semester (Golf and a theater
production... the things you can put off). 
I would like to propose something to the game Idea. Form what I have
read it seems that we will be building a rpg. This is good for me since
I love those games... Most of the discussion has focused on turn based
vs. ... I would like to propose a semi turn based system akin to muds
and newer rpg games like Baulders gate or Never Winter Nights. Basically
movement is unrestricted, so a player could walk from room to room, look
at items, equip items etc. without any restrictions. If another player
walked into the room, or tried to interact with you (strike up a
conversation, cut your head off etc.) the server would update you and
allow you to choose your response. I think this methodology has two
advantages. #1 Playing is not restricted, (i.e. you don't run out of
turns) you don't run out of things to do or NPC's to kill etc. #2 It
keeps the game much more interesting because there is a real time feel
to the game.
Concerning players logging off and such I believe that has been
addressed in previous posts with saving and things of that nature. 


Regards 
Josh