TIME AND MOVEMENT
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  Time in a realtime environment where many characters travel
  simultaneously is very hard to make sync with everything. There is
  actually two choices to solve this problem: 

    1) To do it as it is in every other muds around the world, that means,
       we just let the time go without thinking about realism.

    2) To make strict scale to gridmap, forgot whole worldmap and thus
       make time spend in movements rather real. If we our squares in 
       gridmap are 1 meter in diameter then it is realistic and we don't
       need to add any artificial delays. In all other cases we
       would need to add delays, imagine how long delay we would need
       while traveling in worldmap where one square is one kilometer
       in diameter!

       Actually, moving 5 meters in gridmap takes 1-5 seconds, depending
       how lagging link we have. 5 seconds is one hour in game time and
       that would mean the characters are rather slow to move. Then there
       is another funny problem. It may take hours to speak one sentence!

       Maybe the only solution is to not care about realistic time and
       movement times.

  However, we need to make use game time in some areas. For night/day system
  I suggest to make it so the character can only sleep in night and the
  character really should sleep in night. If trying to sleep in day it would
  just say something like "You are not ready for sleep yet." or something
  like that, they could only rest if they are very tired. Another thing to
  prevent characters travelling in night is the lack of light. 

  When the character quits, the character should actually stay in the game
  virtually, doing something like sleeping, eating, working and all kind of
  idle. If the character have no food or money when quiting for a long time
  then there would be possibility to starve to death. There should be 
  possibility to get killed as well. Before quiting, a good idea is to get
  the character into a locked room rather than letting it to wander in a
  street.

  In the future, we might have thousands of mortals registered, they would
  be rather good replacement for stupid NPCs when not interactive.

Your admin,
Namhas.