Imagine Nethack as an MMO over ssh.

4 months ago

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@skaffi - LOL that's great. If there were some kind of leaderboards on a nethack MMO, I'd support the "most hilarious or obnoxious death leaderbord" as a category. · 4 months ago

@not_kieran_f - idk how to reconcile synchonic turns. MUD/MUCK/MOOs have the system 'tick' turns every second or so. Lag was a bit of an issue, but the speeds involved for text-only datastream were never an issue for me, even on a 56k modem connection. · 4 months ago

I’ve always wondered what the best way to reconcile turn-based movement with multiple players would be… If you only have a few players then you could wait for everyone’s input, but that really doesn’t scale. Maybe you could have a universal turn timer, but then you have to deal with latency issues… · 4 months ago

And I still die from slipping, falling, and breaking my neck as I attempt to mount my horse on Dvl 1. I guess the difference then is that, instead dying in obscurity, there will be a whole audience there to watch the tragic and quite brief tale of brave sir skaffi. Gravity is such a dragon. · 4 months ago