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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Elder Games</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Matthew Mihaly <<A HREF="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:31:40 -0800 (PST)</LI>
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On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Martin C Sweitzer wrote:
> Specifically you have 0 to N-1 levels and once you get to the maxLevel
> you have this uber character that needs something to do. Artificially
> increasing the number of levels for this new set of characters seems
> twinky to me. There are other obvious things you can do also but are
> still not wonderfully great.
>
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> What things have people used successgully?
Well, and I don't intend for this to come off flippantly, but what you are
describing is only a problem if a game is so one-dimensional that the only
goals to achieve are levels. I thik the things people have used
successfully are too numerous to detail, but they boil down to making the
game multi-dimensional.
--matt
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00470" HREF="msg00470.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: pet peeves</A></strong>,
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