[Home] [Groups] - Message: [Prev in Group] [Next in Group]

nu.kanga.list.mud-dev

15063: RE: [MUD-Dev] The Player Wimping Guidebook

[Full Header] [Plain Text]
From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@verant.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:24:04 -0700
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu 
> [mailto:mud-dev-admin@kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
> Greg Underwood
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 9:35 AM
> To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] The Player Wimping Guidebook
> 
> Why does it have to be that a MUD is "evolving"?  I'll agree 
> that minor
> tweaks are warrented, probably even required to maintain a 
> playable game. 
> But do we have to have games that change on such a large 
> scale as to be
> called "Evolving"?
> 
> [snip] IMHO, most MUDs suffer from the philosophy of "constant
> evolution is a good thing."

Yep. It's an admin-centric view. Just like "it's mymud, not the players'."
:)

One of the great assumed orthodoxies of the list is that it's pretty much
all admins. There's therefore a marked tendency to regard muds as the
admins' private playground, a certain level of arrogance regarding "I don't
care what the players think." If we were honest with ourselves we'd know
that it's never that clearcut even in muds which *are* someone's private
playground. 

-Raph



_______________________________________________
MUD-Dev mailing list
MUD-Dev@kanga.nu
http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev