Needless to say, runaway automation is very heavily frowned upon by anyone who sees it. Diku Diku muds were written by a group of people at the DIKU University in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1990. A very popular mud that runs using a database of rooms and a C harness, very quick and low impact on cpu usage. These people tend to reminisce nostalgically about dead or nonexistent MUDs which were especially fun or interesting. Event A system design alternative to polling loops.
Objects generate events, which are processed in their proper order by the event handler.
This is frequently clearer and far more efficient, especially with large numbers of objects. Examples are a torch generating an event to burn out in two hours, or a spell generating an event for an earthquake to occur in four seconds. Flame Flaming is when someone shouts at another person in a vain attempt to convince them that whatever that other person said or believes in is unconditionally wrong or stupid. Avoid getting into flame wars, and if flamed, laugh it off or ask someone else what you did wrong. Fluidity of Identity Referring to the difficulty of positively identifying a single person who takes many guises in a game world.