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29834: Re: [MUD-Dev] DESIGN: Online adventure games

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From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 19:38:50 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 25 May 2004 16:41:34 -0600 
Malcolm W Tester, <Malcolm> wrote:
> J C Lawrence wrote:

>> So every player is going to end up with a main character and a set of
>> two mules for the other activity types?

> Multi-playing will not be allowed...

They don't need to multi-play.  All they need is multiple accounts which
they play sequentially.

> ... although, IMO it is a near futile effort to stop it in muds.
> Strict rules against it (and consequences) help prevent it.

Which exposes the problem:

  The primary people that outlawing the behaviour will change are those
  who wouldn't be a problem in the first place.

Its a parallel to the old saw: 

  When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.

--
J C Lawrence
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw@kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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