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24415: Re: [MUD-Dev] A Question on PvP and PK

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From: Sean Kelly <sean@hoth.ffwd.cx>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 09:17:22 -0700 (PDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Matt Mihaly wrote:

> In Go and Chess and other games like that, you usually aren't
> playing against other masters, but when you play CS or PK in many
> games, you end up stuck against people with FAR more experience
> than you. If you had to play a Master every time you started
> playing chess, I bet it'd become unentertaining. Challenge is
> good. Feeling as if you are screwed from the start is not fun.

Actually, Go has a ranking and handicap system that allows even a
novice player to challenge a master and keep things fairly even.  I
imagine something similar could be done for RTS games to keep things
even as well.

Sean


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