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29900: Re: [MUD-Dev] playing the mob (was: believable NPCs)
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From: ceo <ceo@grexengine.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:43:08 +0100
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Eli Stevens (WG.c) wrote:
> J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:
> What I want to play is Caesar, not the mob. Almost nobody wants
> to play the mob; finding a Brutus wouldn't be hard (yeah, I'd like
> to be Brutus, but I'd settle for playing Caesar if the game was
> fun enough ;).
Well, I can see possibilities in being "the mob" ;)
Mob taunts you
> say Who said that?
> say Come and say that to my face!
Mob laughs and jeers
> attack mob
Being the godlike swordsman you are, you leap forwards, quickly
despatch 4 of the mob, and step back without taking a scratch. 5
more quickly take their places...
> north
The mob is surrounding you. You cannot move.
Howabout putting the mob in the hands of your worst griefer? "Shared
struggle" pulling the playerbase together and all that. I can
imagine it would be quite a struggle (although I also imagine
several MUD's probably have something like this already :)).
Adam M
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