Editing Talk:HorizonVirtual:Places (section)

= Conditions =

== Terrain ==

NOTE: As even PCs can be maintained, upgraded or even reformatted, Program Space is to a degree mutable. The overall theme is unlikely to change, but individual buildings may suddenly move (reboot after upgrade). Then again, if a User minute equals a Program day, and a de-fragmentation or antivirus scan often takes half an hour to run, a borough or town may be undergoing a slow shuffling process while the players are present. Any maps they have will probably stay constant, as the File Allocation Table updates itself.

It’s also worth noting that a User’s scheduled weekly virus scan happens just over once a Program year.

* Broken Terrain or Hills indicates disorganised, fragmented data. (Earthquakes as de-fragmentation, overclocked PC or virus attacks?)
* Steep, thin valleys through hilly regions – low-bandwidth connections, i.e. dialup?

== Weather ==

Rain and fog: system effects like defragmentation, or perhaps a result of system congestion.

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Some sort of regular darkness MUST be present, as webcrawlers have low light/darkvision capabilities. Perhaps representative of low power/sleep modes on a server?

--[[User:IMAGinES|IMAGinES]] 08:35, 17 Jun 2005 (PDT)