From - Fri Sep 18 18:23:39 1998
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:21:57 -0500
From: Myrla Kurosawa <myrla@kef.net>
Organization: Ka'at Exploration Fleet
To: fuzzylogic@mudservices.com
Subject: Re: Policies

Ragnar Fyri wrote:
> 
> One problem with building a MUCK is to get new people started with building
> off other people's areas. On old Furry there are areas with special coding
> that somehow enable newcomers to create (?) a room and take it over, even
> naming it automagically, without any interaction from the area's owner at
> all. On smaller and newer MUCKs like FL things still have to be done
> manually, which may be a problem when the landlord andthetenant are not
> online at the same time.

What is used commonly for this is a routine for apartment complexes that
hold a preset number of room places in an area. A proseptive tenant
claims a room number and a room is dug, named, and exit created, and all
@chowned over automatically for the tenant. I've been using such a
program for the Underground Apts. But it can be used for any kind of
residential arrangements.

In other cases, such as my park development, I need to control what is
put there and where. The usual arrangement here is for someone to build
something, then leave me page #mail about it and I'll link it in
somewhere. You can request an area to be linked to, which I'll usually
approve.

> I have seen two ways of handling it here, one a bit too restrictive and one
> a bit too careless. And one of them was mine! :P
> To start with my own errors (?), when we were bulding the SFOXS space
> station I just made a pawful of rooms off the crew deck and set them and
> their exits chownable, so people could just get a room as soon as they
> joined the crew. This worked fine for the first five crew members... The
> other day I found a note on the park board from someone looking fora a home
> and decided to offer him a position on the crew. Before writing I decided
> to check the last empty room and found that it was already occupied! And
> not recently either, I did a laston on the new owner and found that he had
> not been online for four weeks. Okay, maybe I shold start checking the rooms
> more often...

Yup.. That was Ronnie.  I sent him page #mail in response to his note.
He now has an apartment, so I've erased his message from the board.

> [BTW would it be possible to have a program keep an eye on a list of objects
> and let me know whenever I stop owning one of them? Just a thought...]

I dunno.  It might be possible. Talk to Gyroplast about it.

> At the other end of the scale there are places like that central district
> we all should know by now. I think I exchanged four or five pmails with
> Myrla to get a couple of things moved to Angora Street. Some furs just
> decide not to bother and start building their own floating districts.

We seem to have alot of floating areas. We really need to get them
linked in to the main area so everyone can find them.
 
> It's getting late. Tomorrow I shall put my money where my mouth is and
> set up some clear rules for the space station (the Promenade and the Crew
> Deck). Before i settle on the final version: Do you wizzes mind getting
> asked to assist with takeovers like this? And is there a way I can send
> a message so it will be received by the first wizard who connects?

Nope.. thats what were here for. Its best to send mail to a wiz who's
responsible for building. (check 'wizzes #all) In other words, don't
trouble a programming wizz if you want some exits linked. You'll likely
get referred. In my case, I'm usually on almost every night, and aside
from being muck/site owner and head wiz, I'm also a builder wiz, which
is what I started out doing, so I would probably be your first choice
for such assistance.


                       ...Myrla