https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/index.php?a=rssfeed&t=4761 The largest Smaug community resource site. - en SmaugMuds 60 https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/guid-smaugfuss-4761/&p=23347#p23347 It really boils down to how unique you want things to be. The GUID concept is really an "object ID", which means every instance of every object will have a unique identifier. That's useful in cases where everything in the game shares a common data structure (many MMO's), and so getting a pointer to GUID 3 and another to GUID 827711 are both useful things to do. However, most Dikurivatives have rooms, mobs, objects, and players ALL as seperate kinds of pointers. So, if GUID 3 is a room, a https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/guid-smaugfuss-4761/&p=23347#p23347 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:52:19 CDT Coding nobody@example.com (Quixadhal) https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/guid-smaugfuss-4761/&p=23346#p23346 Interesting. Yah I hate the large numbers, but you can type get sword, or get 32523sword. So I was thinking something like that might be neat, if you add a config so players can turn it off and do get 2.sword if that is what they want. I know I have a lot of tradeskills with the same vnum for the objects crafted, so 2.sword, etc really does not work well. Would be better though if instead of a large number could maybe be based on object->type such as. if item_type->weapon GUID = https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/guid-smaugfuss-4761/&p=23346#p23346 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:19:09 CDT Coding nobody@example.com (Guest) https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/guid-smaugfuss-4761/&p=23345#p23345 It seems like it's only really useful for custom/graphical clients. I can't imagine most players would enjoy typing something like: get sword#18277172 FWIW though, the LPMUD universe treats clones that way, but the ID is not unique across all objects, it's simply unique for a given object. For example, you might have a sword object "/domain/fooland/item/sword.c", and if there are 12 copies of it in the game, they can be referenced by "/domain/fooland/item/sword.c#7". The usual parse https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/guid-smaugfuss-4761/&p=23345#p23345 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:13:19 CDT Coding nobody@example.com (Quixadhal) https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/guid-smaugfuss-4761/&p=23344#p23344 Good Morning, I prob was gone when this was a hot topic, but I am wondering if smaugfuss team ever thought doing something like Nick Gammon offered for a solution with GUID. In the past I always hated having a long number by the object or mob as a player. However, I do see how in smaug typing 2.sword or whatever can get confusing for players. I wonder if it would make sense to try something like this, but make it a config, so a player can turn it off at will. So they are not dealing wit https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/guid-smaugfuss-4761/&p=23344#p23344 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:02:59 CDT Coding nobody@example.com (Guest)