Re: turn processing discussed in PBM Design group (yahoo groups)

From: Daniel Vuurboom & Gerry Damen <vuurdameDELETE@xs4all.nl>

Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 22:05:33 +0000

samayel wrote:

>>So what you're saying is that the fastest player goes first, regardless
>>of his situation -- the fastest player's orders are not effected by
>>other's orders.  I think this gives you a much nicer way of handling the
>>turn engine: iterate through the players (and monsters if you want) in
>>descending order of speed (initiative, whatever).  As you process each
>>player you know that all faster players (and monsters) have already had
>>their turn, so any effect they've had on the universe has already been
>>taken care of.  You only process each player once and need store only
>>information about one player at a time.
>>

>
> that does make sense, if I go purely by speed (or any one factor)... thats
> the way to do it. I just hate the thought of turn processing order going so
> rigidly by any one factor... there needs to be a small variance... a little
> chaos... not much of course, otherwise the speed factor becomes irrelevant.

Maybe you could use something along the lines of the ShadowRun
initiative system here:
A player has an initiative based on his abilities plus a die roll,
typically something between 1+1D6 to 16+4D6. The fastest player gets one
action, deducts 10 from his initiative and enters the queue again,
waiting for his next action.

This way characters get anything from 1 to 4 actions, and the fastest
has the advantage, but cannot do everything he wants before others have
a go at their number one priorities. You would need to do a lot of
tweaking though to get the right number of actions and spread....

Or just get an initiative number for each character and go in that order
for each action. This gives each character the same number of actions,
but doesn't let the fastest do everything first.

HTH,

Daniel Vuurboom

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turn processing discussed in PBM Design group (yahoo groups)
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Thu, 07 Mar 2002 18:10:40 +0000
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Thu, 07 Mar 2002 19:04:18 +0000
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