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<LI><em>From</em>: "Caliban Tiresias Darklock" <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:01:29 -0800</LI>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ling <K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk>
To: mud-dev#kanga,nu <mud-dev#kanga,nu>
Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 11:54 AM
Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts
>> The theory of player relativity:
>> No statistic has meaning without comparison.
>>
>> How benchmarks are built:
>> When no measure of quality is readily provided, a measure of quality will
be
>> invented
>>
>> Peek-a-boo:
>> If the player cannot see it, it does not exist.
>
>I feel this contradicts with the previous two. Is that deliberate or am I
>missing something?
They build on each other. Consider a game which exposes no statistics to the
player, and the following applications of the laws.
Peek-a-boo: The player cannot see a measure of quality, so he concludes that
there is none.
Relativity: A measure of quality will only be acceptable if it can be
applied to others. Therefore he mentally constructs one or more such
measures privately.
Benchmarks: He selects one which makes him look good. Others who look good
under it support this. It *becomes* the measure of quality by sheer weight
of numbers, in the absence of other measures which garner greater support.
In such a way, the game now has *obvious* levels, even though someone could
have found the existing ones with his pedant and magnifying glass had he
wanted to invest the effort. ;)
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00154" HREF="msg00154.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 01:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00186" HREF="msg00186.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 15 Jan 1999, 04:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00163" HREF="msg00163.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 17:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00165" HREF="msg00165.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 19:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00166" HREF="msg00166.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 20:06 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00231" HREF="msg00231.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 20 Jan 1999, 21:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00234" HREF="msg00234.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 20 Jan 1999, 22:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00151" HREF="msg00151.html">[MUD-Dev] Thoughts</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 00:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00160" HREF="msg00160.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Thoughts</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Thu 14 Jan 1999, 03:32 GMT
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