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<LI><em>From</em>: Richard Woolcock <<A HREF="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</A>></LI>
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Adam Wiggins wrote:
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> [Marian Griffith:]
> > > > > I still don't know how I'm going to code seduction though. Hopefully th
> > > > > emotional responce thing will help.
> >
> > > > I think this is all you can reasonably do. Otherwise you are writing a
> > > > story, not creating a game.
> >
> > > I was always of the opinion that muds are supposed to be interactive
> > > stories, with the plot following the players choices.
> >
> > Perhaps, but dictating your emtional responses to other characters seems
> > to change a game into story telling. Some hints about (relative) attrac-
> > tiveness as judged by the ideal image given for that character would be
> > about as far as I am willing to accept in a game.
>
> Well, the only way I could see that this could be successful would be
> for the game to simulate "animal magnetism" - less like love and more
> like lust. Thus if Boffo (the character) is attracted to Buffy, he
> may frequently be caught staring in her direction, tripping over his
> own feet when she enters the room, etc. Now, Boffo's player may find
> Buffy to be a stuborn and arrogant person, and someone he doesn't
> really want to be around - but this is still completely within the
> realm of RL posibility. I think most people have been attracted to
> people that they shouldn't or didn't 'want' to be attracted to.
> So you'd have small hints to the player and to the other characters that
> they are attracted to another certain character, but this doesn't really
> limit what that character can do, ie:
>
> Buffy says, 'You moron. I hate your guts.'
> > slap buffy
> You wouldn't DREAM of doing that!
> > growl buffy
> You let loose a sigh of passion as you stare into Buffy's eyes.
> >
> Buffy grins.
> Buffy attacks you with her broadsword, cleaving into your arm!
> > attack buffy
> You wouldn't DREAM of doing that!
> >
> Buffy cleaves you in the skull with her broadsword. You are dead.
>
> Well, okay, so the first two are kind of funny, but that's as far as
> I might go with this.
I doubt I will prevent things like this, although I might stop you
initiating combat against Buffy if you love her. If she attacked you,
your feelings towards her would change pretty fast - and you would
certainly fight back (although with the loss of quite a lot humanity
if you actually killed her).
I can see problems with this, but I'm interested in trying new
approaches to mudding.
KaVir.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00344" HREF="msg00344.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introductions and</A></strong>,
Sauron <a href="mailto:dlove#kusd,kusd.edu">dlove#kusd,kusd.edu</a>, Sat 22 Nov 1997, 02:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00349" HREF="msg00349.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introductions and</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Sat 22 Nov 1997, 10:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00360" HREF="msg00360.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introductions and</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00369" HREF="msg00369.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introductions and</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Sun 23 Nov 1997, 16:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00385" HREF="msg00385.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introductions and</A></strong>,
Richard Woolcock <a href="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</a>, Sun 23 Nov 1997, 22:56 GMT
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Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user2,inficad.com">nightfall#user2,inficad.com</a>, Sat 22 Nov 1997, 08:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00356" HREF="msg00356.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introductions and</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sat 22 Nov 1997, 16:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00403" HREF="msg00403.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Introductions and</A></strong>,
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