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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun </LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 11:25:43 -0700</LI>
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On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 20:50:23 -0700
Richard Woolcock<KaVir#dial,pipex.com> wrote:
> J C Lawrence wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 03:28:40 -0700 Richard
>> Woolcock<KaVir#dial,pipex.com> wrote:
>>> J C Lawrence wrote:
>>>> If you really want players to set up burger flipping enterprises
>>>> and others such in your MUDs, and you want such attempts to be
>>>> the default, you're going to have to establish event
>>>> (player-visible effects) rates and feedback rates for burger
>>>> joint attempts that match or exceed the event rates of shish
>>>> kebabbing newbies.
>>> Or make shish kebabbing newbies a very messy, predictable and
>>> unrewarding event?
>> Its difficult to make in unrewarding when it continues to create
>> such a large and often emotive effect on the victim. "Hey! You
>> killed me you arsehole! I'm gonna get you!" Is one hell of a
>> reward to try and combat via code.
..deletia...
> The outcome? If you manage to kill them, you loose (humanity), they
> vanish, and you quite probably end up with an anonymous assassin on
> your tail. This will not discourage everyone, but I hope it will
> make pointless killing rarer.
Evading the clutches of anonymous assassins while collecting new
implacable assassins seems like a fun game to me. Certainly M59 has
its sets of regenant baiters.
--
J C Lawrence Internet: claw#null,net
(Contractor) Internet: coder#ibm,net
---------(*) Internet: claw#under,engr.sgi.com
...Honourary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00696" HREF="msg00696.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 12 Aug 1998, 22:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00007" HREF="msg00007.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00011" HREF="msg00011.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk</a>, Wed 01 Jul 1998, 20:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00049" HREF="msg00049.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Mon 06 Jul 1998, 18:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00738" HREF="msg00738.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:matt#mpc,dyn.ml.org">matt#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sat 15 Aug 1998, 17:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00010" HREF="msg00010.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></strong>,
Nathan F Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Wed 01 Jul 1998, 19:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00030" HREF="msg00030.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 02 Jul 1998, 01:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00033" HREF="msg00033.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 02 Jul 1998, 17:33 GMT
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