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RE: [MUD-Dev] Critiquing Muds
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Mihaly [mailto:diablo#best,com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 8:39 PM
> To: 'mud-dev#kanga,nu'
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Critiquing Muds
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Koster, Raph wrote:
>
> >
> > I think communities can be found in much smaller muds--250
> is merely a
> > yardsitck for when *subcommunities* will emerge. And I
> lifted the figure
> > from Richard Bartle. Reference is his article on "Bad Ideas
> for Multi-Player
> > Games," where it is tossed off as part of Bad Idea #1:
> >
>
> That number is way too big. We don't get more than 90 players on
> simultaneously,
I think Richard uses it as a number of simultaneous logins, in his context,
but I mean total playerbase...
> and there is no question we have
> subcommunities. They are
> generally organized along political lines. For instance,
> rarely, if ever,
> would you even see members of the Church socializing with
> Occultists. They
> despise each other, and it carries over into any ooc socialization. I
> suspect the reason for this in a relatively smaller game is
> the game is
> structured to be mainly PvP, and the political organizations are
> structured so as to have opposing goals, requiring conflict,
> which tends
> to polarize communities.
Yes... in general, though, I was referring to less structured subcommunities
with more divergent interests. A classic example would be the PvPers and
non-PvPers.
-Raph
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- Thread context:
- [MUD-Dev] ScryMUD release v1.9.10.,
Ben Greear greear#cyberhighway,net, Thu 08 Jul 1999, 06:05 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Critiquing Muds,
Travis Casey efindel#io,com, Wed 07 Jul 1999, 23:48 GMT
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: [MUD-Dev] Critiquing Muds,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Thu 08 Jul 1999, 00:05 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] Critiquing Muds,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Thu 08 Jul 1999, 14:28 GMT
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