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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
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:Heh, there was some cheesey fantasy book I read a long time ago where
:the only 'effect' of spellcasting was that it aged you. So at one point
:when the demon invasion occured, the main spellcaster guy stood around
:casting nonstop fireballs at the bad guys, all day every day for two weeks.
:Of course, at the *end* of this time, he had aged about a dozen years...
:One idea we mulled over (but rejected) was making the timespan very short.
:Ie, one RL month ~= 80 years on the mud. Thus you make characters, advance
:very quickly, and then age into range of death all in a fairly short period.
:This makes players both less attached to their characters (a good thing,
:IMO), and makes the jack-of-all trades thing no longer an issue - there
:just isn't enough *time* in one lifetime to learn it all. Plus you get
:cool things like aging spells, fountains of youth, and racial choices based
:on age. Ie you've got a race like gnome, who's stats all suck, but they
:live twice as long as anyone else, which would actually be quite useful.
This sounds really cool. Why did you reject that idea? Having a variable
aging rate, controlled by the admin, might be useful. Much like the
controllable update rates on Empire, where you can have a regular slow
game that goes on for a few months, or you can have a blitz that is over
in a day or two (which also totally blitzes the players!).
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00240" HREF="msg00240.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
claw <a href="mailto:claw#null,net">claw#null,net</a>, Fri 28 Mar 1997, 04:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00245" HREF="msg00245.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#inficad,com">nightfall#inficad,com</a>, Fri 28 Mar 1997, 13:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00246" HREF="msg00246.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#inficad,com">nightfall#inficad,com</a>, Fri 28 Mar 1997, 14:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00247" HREF="msg00247.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#inficad,com">nightfall#inficad,com</a>, Fri 28 Mar 1997, 14:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00249" HREF="msg00249.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 29 Mar 1997, 04:15 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00251" HREF="msg00251.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
claw <a href="mailto:claw#null,net">claw#null,net</a>, Sat 29 Mar 1997, 05:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00255" HREF="msg00255.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
claw <a href="mailto:claw#null,net">claw#null,net</a>, Sat 29 Mar 1997, 11:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00257" HREF="msg00257.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
claw <a href="mailto:claw#null,net">claw#null,net</a>, Sat 29 Mar 1997, 13:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00266" HREF="msg00266.html">Re: Resets and repops</A></strong>,
S001GMU <a href="mailto:S001GMU#nova,wright.edu">S001GMU#nova,wright.edu</a>, Mon 31 Mar 1997, 23:04 GMT
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