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25934: RE: [MUD-Dev] Retention without Addiction?
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From: "Marc Fielding" <fielding@computer.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:47:29 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
[Damion Schubert]
> My suggestion would be: kick people out of their patterns. Reward
> players for how many different monsters they kill. Give players
> different goals. Nudge them to go towards empty areas. Only
> reward them for the first dragon they kill that day.
> There are a near infinite number of ways to fiddle with the
> rewards (advancement and loot) so that you're encouraging
> exploration and diversity of activity instead of waiting in line
> for 12 hours to kill the same thing you killed yesterday.
Agreed. Here's a reasonable tactic: if a group has been camping Orcs
in a particular place for too long, why not put a note on one of the
corpses saying that a caravan of Orcish plunder will soon be passing
by a certain location a few miles away? Then spawn the encounter at
the desired time.
Make it worth their while, and they'll move.
-Marc
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