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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@origin.ea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:27:35 -0600
Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tuesday, December 09, 1997 8:32 AM, Vadim
Tkachenko[SMTP:vadimt@4cs.com] wrote:
> Koster, Raph wrote:
> >
> > The above sounds wonderful, given that you have email
registration,
> > characters who never log out, etc. These provide important
"identity
> > tracking" which permit the enforcers of justice to track the
villain
> > down. Without them, though, it's next to impossible... Also, as
scale
> > grows, anonymity will become increasingly easy as well.
Eventually, it
> > may break down on you.It will be interesting to see if this is
the
> > case. It relies a lot on players' willingness to gossip, which may
not
> > work out that well (is it possible for a group of 100 players to
get
> > together and purposely report the same person for something nasty,
to
> > get their character destroyed?)
>
> Well, doesn't it mean that the person is _really_ worth for 100
players
> to get together to get rid of the character?
Not necessarily. :( I never underestimate the range of human
maliciousness...
-Raph