Wheel of Time MUD

Python is a great language to start off with, although Go is pretty good and gaining a ton of steam. The major benefits in Go's favor are that it's quite opinionated and has a lot of built-in tooling to enforce those conventions. No worrying about format since you can just run `gofmt` over your code...

Yep. This type of thing isn't particularly difficult outside of the language parsing stuff. One approach may be to just have a stream of narrates and then you come in afterwards and tag each message with what it is describing and see if you can AI it a bit...

It'd be interesting to see if there are any statistics on zone population over time. Highly unlikely, but it'd be a good metric to determine if a zone is actually used or is just there as a filler. If it's unused should it be there? My perspective on world size is that it should correlate to the siz...

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When you saw the ping timeouts recently, was that only to Google or did you also have a ping running to your router? I'd recommend checking a ping to the router alongside a ping to Google just to make sure. If both spike at the same time then it's definitely going to be an issue local to the compute...