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<LI><em>From</em>: Greg Miller <<A HREF="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:14:37 -0500</LI>
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Kylotan wrote:
> If people will play games where pkill is determined by a totally voluntary
> flag, this implies that pkill has some intrinisic 'fun' value whether
> those players are causing trouble or not. Therefore this 'fun' will surely
> be present in a 'free PK' game, too? I think we should perhaps make a
> distinction between 'playerkilling' and 'playerkilling of totally
> involuntary targets' as the motivation is different in my experience.
Indeed, when people talk about PK on this list, they usually are talking
about either PK-to-annoy or PK-to-punish-for-annoying. What you describe
is more along the lines of a full PK game embedded within a more
traditional mud.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00286" HREF="msg00286.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The Relationship between pkers and monster AI?</A></strong>,
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Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Mon 13 Sep 1999, 17:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00220" HREF="msg00220.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The Relationship between pkers and monster AI?</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00283" HREF="msg00283.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The Relationship between pkers and monster AI?</A></strong>,
Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller#classic-games,com">gmiller#classic-games,com</a>, Mon 13 Sep 1999, 17:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00222" HREF="msg00222.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The Relationship between pkers and monster AI?</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00228" HREF="msg00228.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The Relationship between pkers and monster AI?</A></strong>,
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Sellers, Michael <a href="mailto:MSellers#maxis,com">MSellers#maxis,com</a>, Wed 08 Sep 1999, 21:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00225" HREF="msg00225.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] The Relationship between pkers and monster AI?</A></strong>,
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