Re: QUESTION: PBMs.

From: Carl Burke <cburke@mitre.org>

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Rogerio Fung wrote:
...
> There are theoretically contless other situations, most of them surely
> wont be coded, so the GM has to work on them. But what is their strategy?
> Any BSE players can shed a light on this? (I speak about BSE since it's
> the only game that I know which is computer moderated and allows for
> 'RPGing'.) Others are free to drop in.
...
Just for my own information, when did BSE change to computer moderation?
Back when I was playing it, the game was mostly hand-moderated except
for the battles (and possibly standard things like movement and
transfers).
With hand-moderation, the GM would usually make changes directly to the
database, or create new objects for which the attributes would be
entered
into the database (or written into the software).  It's my understanding
that other PBMs which are primarily computer moderated but which allow
special free-text actions (e.g. Legends) operate in the same way: the GM
has to determine what the game effects will be and will make changes to
some part of the game database or program to execute the special order.
Natural language understanding still isn't there to allow the computer
to
interpret a special order and determine the effects on the game.  Maybe
in another 10-20 years when the CYC project (or someone else) finally
rolls out a fairly complete system, but not soon.

In one of the cases you mentioned, that of a 'governor' as a special
passenger, with special consequences if something untoward should
happen,
you could have the game handle that without intervention if such things
as government positions were built into the game system.  The extra
complexity that adds probably doesn't justify the development effort
unless rank and privilege are going to be an important part of the game.

(All IMHO, of course)

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References

QUESTION: PBMs.
Rogerio Fung <u1001353@email.sjsu.edu>
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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QUESTION: PBMs.
Rogerio Fung <u1001353@email.sjsu.edu>
Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000