[vworld-tech] Verbs or Updates or Both?

[Mats Lidstrom]

From: "Jim Purbrick" <Jpurbrick at climax.co.uk>
> MUDs traditionally seem to deal in verbs for communication: A picks up the
B
> in C, while NetVR systems seem to deal in synchronising state by
> distributing updates to state: when the difference between position P and
> position P predicted is large, send a new value for P.
>
> Is one of these approaches better than the other? Are they compatible? Is
> there an ideal mixture? Why do the 2 types of systems tend towards the 2
> approaches? Is it just because MUDs use natural language while NetVR
systems
> worry about synchronising proxy objects? If events are used, should many
> events exist describing verbs like running, jumping and hitting or should
> few events exist describing state updates?
>
> I'm interested to know what everyone thinks.

I'm trying to grasp your questions. Can you elaborate?

/M