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Re: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking
Todd McKimmey wrote:
<snip>
>"That's onegoal that we're attempting to achieve with SushiMud --
characters will start
> at a power level somewhere equal to about level 5 or so on most stock
dikumuds. In
> the end, however, a newbie played by an experienced character is always
going to feel
> like a newbie and relatively powerless given their experience."
<snip>
Unless you have a method for the "level one Diku character" powerlevel to be
apparent to
the players, I think you run the risk of merely have a short period of happy
players before
their expectations adjust, and a beginner character is becomes
uninteresting again. I'm
wondering if this happens because players will only kill so many rats before
it becomes old
hat, and would rather experience a richer "mid-game" scenario that is more
attractive by
virtue of a greater variety of things to do, more interesting combinations
of abilities, or simple
character uniqueness.
Instead of moving the starting point up, how about offering a different
approach to beginning
a character, perhaps quests, training scenarios or somesuch that are only
available to
return players or new players who can figure out a difficult puzzle?
Ian Hess
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- Thread context:
- RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking, (continued)
- RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking,
Justin Lockshaw jlockshaw#signio,com, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 18:55 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking,
S. Patrick Gallaty choke#sirius,com, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 18:55 GMT
- Re: RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking,
jolson jolson#micron,net, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 22:53 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking,
Hess, Ian W (Ian) ihess#lucent,com, Sat 22 Apr 2000, 04:13 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] Skotos Proximity System - a Technical Summary (LONG),
Christopher Allen ChristopherA#Skotos,net, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 19:49 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] incremental revenue discussion,
Matthew Mihaly the_logos#achaea,com, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 19:49 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] new list,
Kevin Littlejohn darius#connect,com.au, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 00:12 GMT
- [MUD-Dev] RE: MUD-Dev request rejected,
Schubert, Damion dschubert#origin,ea.com, Tue 18 Apr 2000, 00:06 GMT
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