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# [Prog] Magic: The Moo.

- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:54:55 PDT
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    	FYI (Beth was askin) I just recently re-scrapped the
    Magic Moo idea.

    	It's been burning in the back of me skull for a while
    now, and I got a little bit of work done on it over this summer
    haitus.. unfortunately I forgot to calculate the possible db
    bloat concerns.  Let's do the math, shall we?

    	Each card was to be a separate Object, descended from
    Base Card, with code for :resolution and silly things like that.
    I was in a bind for Artifact Creatures (for LPC does not like
    multiple parents and I had both an Artifact and a Creature all
    set up), but I figured out a workaround that may have worked.

    	Now comes the math.  Each card, it appears, req's a
    minimum of about 1k of memory.  Not too bad, but I had hoped that
    unaltered children of objects with no real changes would require
    far less in memory (like parent and owner etc) than 1k.  Nope,
    not gonna do it.  I realized this fall that blank descendents
    (copies?) take up a whack of memory, and any changes like a bit
    more of course.

    	Each player is almost expected to eventually have 1000
    cards.  If you start with 100, it won't take THAT long to aquire
    500-1000 cards.  Each 1000 cards required 1M of memory in round
    numbers, and so basically I needed a meg Per Player... that's not
    counting Frameworks launched, nothin.

    	So, it's been scrapped... and Moo-cows folks can stop
    wondering Why I'm tellin THEM...  I'm looking for object
    simulating Card Games.  I expected to see a few online (at parc)
    considering the number of social and gathering areas Moos have,
    but I've not seen anything I can use.

    	Anyone who has a Card Game Object that hey wouldn't mind
    me biffing, cutting, polishing and using, I'd be happy to take
    the object off your hands.  Pointers and ideas are welcome as
    well, as are notes letting me know if such a request is impolite
    here... I haven't seen any yet, so I dunno.

    --
    - Lionel R 'Bishop' Clark	bishop@abbey.cuug.ab.ca
    				bishop@acs.ucalgary.ca

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