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<LI><em>From</em>: Matt Chatterley <<A HREF="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 09:09:33 +0000 (GMT)</LI>
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On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Jeff Kesselman wrote:
> At 10:40 AM 7/12/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:
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> >*grin* I wonder if people would still be laughing when they realise there
> >will be no bread unless somebody else decides to bake it. And sells it at
> >a price justified by demand.
>
> Interesting question.. id it fun to force players to do basicly boring
> actions as the "price" of playing the game??
Hmm, I'd suggest that you would probably have players wanting to do such
things - or could at least encourage those who simply socialise more often
that not to do it.
Making the entire game rely on players doing a quote of 'boring things' is
probably unwise - but some boring things can be made a bit more fun, to
help out. Having NPCs (nearly) make up the missing part of the quota
solves problems, as long as people realise NPCs will only do a certain
amount of stuff, and someone else must finish the job.
It really depends heavily on the environment of the game. Even if it's not
heavy-rp, it *can* be fun to stand in a shop and talk (this is really my
primary use of muds as a player - to meet and talk to people!).
Of course, there are other non-menial tasks players can be called upon to
do. For instance, the 'starter town' I am currently creating is a small
and fairly rural village (but is quite busy in terms of traffic, since
it's quite central between the main ports of the land it sits on). This
makes it a quite good strategic location. It's total strength of 'guards'
(for law enforcement and city defence) is 20 (armed only with shortswords,
wearing nothing more protective than a tunic), and the captain (who has a
longsword and a leather jerkin).
If the town were to be attacked by a significant force (probably 30+
soldiers), it could quite easily be captured - in the event of such an
attack, the call would go up for everyone in the town (PC and NPC) to
rally to the defences.
Regards,
-Matt Chatterley
<A HREF="http://user.itl.net/~neddy/index.html">http://user.itl.net/~neddy/index.html</A>
"Never enter an arsekicking contest with a porcupine."-Cohen The Barbarian
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00099" HREF="msg00099.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Nation of shopkeepers</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Fri 11 Jul 1997, 14:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00100" HREF="msg00100.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Nation of shopkeepers</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00102" HREF="msg00102.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Nation of shopkeepers</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Sat 12 Jul 1997, 16:31 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00104" HREF="msg00104.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Nation of shopkeepers</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Sun 13 Jul 1997, 02:35 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00111" HREF="msg00111.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Nation of shopkeepers</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sun 13 Jul 1997, 15:10 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00116" HREF="msg00116.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Nation of shopkeepers</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Sun 13 Jul 1997, 19:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00302" HREF="msg00302.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Nation of shopkeepers</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 31 Jul 1997, 08:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00335" HREF="msg00335.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Nation of shopkeepers</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Sat 02 Aug 1997, 19:10 GMT
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