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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 24 Jun 97 16:30:30 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg01355.html">Pine.GSO.3.96.970619110152.16341D-100000@dryslwyn</A>>, on 06/19/97
at 08:35 PM, Martin Keegan <martin#cam,sri.com> said:
>On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 clawrenc#cup,hp.com wrote:
>> Bubba of house X got special object Y.
>>
>> Therefore it is reasonable for Boffo of house X to later have
>> Y despite being a newbie.
>>
>> How about abilities gamed by players? Did they cross reflect to other
>> members of the house? I can also see this forming the basis of more
>> interesting clan and political battles.
>YES! The clan stuff gets interesting. Running more than one house
>will be disallowed, but if a house takes a newbie under its wing, and
>the newbie starts to grow strong, he may eventually take over the
>house when its original player leaves.
I can also see a lot of interest value if you allow houses to recruit
other players to be members of their house. You then, by extension,
almost get the concept of a house as clan, with player characters as
actively sought after and even contested resource for houses.
This also opens the interesting spectre of a player character being a
member of two houses, or even an honourary member of non-primary
houses. Add small doses of treachery, treason, and betrayal
(guaranteed with human players, but also easy to stir up) and you have
the beginnings of a real political system.
>> "I may die now, but I do so for for my House, and they shall
>> benefit!"
>>
>> "All for the glory of house Agueface!"
>>
>> "Kill the Keegans!"
>>
>> "House Burp and House Grunt have joined forces against House Gas."
>You've got the picture. BTW, Kill the Keegans was actually the name
>of a VB game written in 1994 by someone who didn't like me much.
Yup. I played it back when my then SO (she of the very short
downtime) ran a Windows hawking BBS.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01341" HREF="msg01341.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 18 Jun 1997, 11:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01480" HREF="msg01480.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 25 Jun 1997, 06:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01345" HREF="msg01345.html">[MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 19 Jun 1997, 00:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01355" HREF="msg01355.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>,
Martin Keegan <a href="mailto:martin#cam,sri.com">martin#cam,sri.com</a>, Thu 19 Jun 1997, 17:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01482" HREF="msg01482.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 25 Jun 1997, 06:37 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01540" HREF="msg01540.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>,
Martin Keegan <a href="mailto:martin#cam,sri.com">martin#cam,sri.com</a>, Fri 27 Jun 1997, 00:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00983" HREF="msg00983.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Thu 01 Jan 1970, 13:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00957" HREF="msg00957.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 00:04 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00988" HREF="msg00988.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Spoken Languages & Food [was RP thesis...]</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 14:04 GMT
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