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From: cruise <cruise@casual-tempest.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 09:23:22 +0000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Byron Ellacott wrote:
> I'd say the most entertaining combats are those which you want to
> engage in. The "grind" combats are those combats you must do in
> order to advance. The "fun" combats are those you choose to do in
> order to gain some personal benefit - loot, the experience (I mean
> real experience, not little numbers ticking over), the challenge,
> or whatever you get out of it.
> Increasing the complexity of an engagement the player never wanted
> in the first place wouldn't, I should think, help matters any.
Thank you phrasing the problem better than I did :P
To re-iterate, then: "How do we make players /want/ to fight
monsters?" Everything so far seems to suggest making combats more
dynamic, allowing players (and mobs) to counter and counter-counter.
Are there any other thoughts?
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