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From: "F. Randall Farmer" <randy@communities.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:59:41 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
A question: In what way do you manifest yourself as the immortal?
The services I've been involved with have never had manifested deity,
even when the universe had a mythology (as was the case in Dreamscape.)
We've never needed an immortal "in-world." [Of course, I've never
built a combat-mud like most of you here seem to build.]
The closest thing we had to an "immortal": Lucasfilm's Habitat had
"The Oracle" which was a fountain in the middle of town. If you spoke
to it, the reply was always "I'll see what I can do." and it logged the
message for later admin review. The Oracle never made appearances.
(Every Habitat since then has featured a fountain in the middle of town,
but they aren't "a transmitter for talking to God" like the original.)
Dreamscape has Morpheus who, of course, has many faces but also never
appears.
We've always used a combination paid and volunteer moderation model,
usually tiered, with the paid folks at top. :-) Each tier has a reserved
title. Administrative capabilities are usually tiered, though there is
not always a one-to-one correspondence with moderator tiers. A classic
example of the difference is the separation of "authoring" capabilities
from "crowd control" capabilities. As I'm sure most here will agree,
these are two different skill sets. :-)
Back to the question: In the products I've been closely associated with -
Product Immortal Manifestation Live Admin offices
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Lucasfilm's Habitat The Fountain Oracle (batch) Guides
Club Caribe None (no myth) Guides
Guardian Angels
Fujistu Habitat ??? Oracles
WorldsAway/Dreamscape None (Morpheus myth) Oracles,Acolytes
The Palace None (think CHAT) Owners, Operators
(formerly Gods,Wizards)
Randy
F. Randall Farmer "Home pages are passe', everybody's
Communities.com building a palace" - Time Magazine
Cofounder and VP Services http://www.communities.com
randy@communities.com
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