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From: "Jason Booth" <zombie.shakespeare@verizon.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:14:46 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On March 27, Jon Leonard wrote:
> It seems to me that it'd be possible to have other ways of
> limiting high advancement to players of greater skill. The first
> method that came to mind was having a scheme with exponentially
> decaying unspent experince.
I have actually considered a similar method of controlling character
advancement; however, such a system only gives you control over how
fast the most dedicated player can advance in power in your game; it
does not control how many players advance. Again, persistence is
still the prime requisite for game advancement, you've only provided
yourself a way to throttle the rate of that advancement. While I
haven't been able to find the statement from Dr. Bartles you
reference, I will tentatively agree with it here. If you are
equating "high level" with "hero" or "villain" status, then I
believe some system of permanent death is necessary to keep the
integritity and uniqueness of those terms.
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