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13333: RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking

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From: "Raph Koster" <rkoster@austin.rr.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:53:38 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu [mailto:mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> Justin Lockshaw
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:18 AM
> To: 'mud-dev@kanga.nu'
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking
>
> After a while I really started seeing the affects of the mass
> twinking that
> goes on on this (if not most/all) servers. Items that appear to be, from a
> game design position, targeted for the low-mid level characters I found to
> be nearly worthless.

This is not merely a problem with twinking, but also with any mud that has
insufficient economic drains. Over time the "standard of living" for all
players rises. It's a classic pattern (you can even graph it) for most of
today's GoP muds. It leads to a need to adjust the static data in your
game's database, or else continue adding data only at the top end.

-Raph




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