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7626: [MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun

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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@origin.ea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 15:40:34 -0500
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	J C Lawrence [SMTP:claw@under.engr.sgi.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 01, 1998 1:06 PM
> To:	mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject:	[MUD-Dev] Re: WIRED: Kilers have more fun 
> 
> There is an equation in Raph's text that the player base cannot
> cohesively and effectively enforce the ethical lines once the
> population size grows beyond some limit.  Its a common argument, used
> by admins in RP or otherwise constrained games (cf Cat's no violence)
> all over.  In essence, as Raph has also asserted, it is paternalism.
> Papa, in the form of the admin or code, knows best.  This is Papa's
> house, so you play by Papa's rules or Papa beats your butt and tosses
> you out.
> 
Whaddaya know, I was browsing the archives, and found this post:

URL: http://www.kanga.nu/~petidomo/lists/mud-dev/1998Q2/msg01062.html

which seems to have some relevance to the subject at hand... wasn't that
long ago either.

-Raph