# New Wiz needs help - guest creation

"Walter A. Aprile" (aprile@nl.cs.cmu.edu)
Fri, 25 Aug 1995 12:19:55 PDT

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    Madhu Rao scribbles :
    #
    #I wish not to create guests objects beforehand, but to automatically
    #create a guest character when some on types 'connect guest' and define
    #max number of guests in $login. So whenever someone connects as guest -
    #they get a randomly generated guest character -is that possible
    #

    I don't completely understand why you would want to do this - however
    if you wand different descs for every guest, and you want them to
    change at every connection, you can

    - if you really want to create them on the fly, you have to modify
      $login:connect - but I most emphatically don't reccomand that.
      connect is a bit tricky, and if you place a bug in there, you
      can manage to lock yourself (and everybody else) out of the
      MOO for good.
      Besides, I see no good reason for creating and recycling guests.

    What I'd advice you to do, instead, is

    - create the maximum number of guests allowed _beforehand_, and
      write a $guest:confunc() that changes the description, the name,
      and everything you want on the guest

    I am cc:ing this to the list, so that if I am saying nonsense
    (the chance exists), someone more knowledgeable can stop me.

    Omaggi, Walter