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From: Joel Kelso <joel@ee.uwa.edu.au>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:18:22 +0800
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Lovecraft wrote:
> Embarassingly, I don't know of other games that reduce bandwidth/daily usage
> by game mechanics. I imagine you, gentle listmember, may offer examples. I
> offer one I know well.
<dark ages usage control strategies>
Starlane (which I'm testing at the moment) uses a constantly
regenerating
"energy" value that to restrict movement. Starlane's not an RPG, its a
strategy game, but with a real-time rather than turn-based control
system,
so it's absoutely vital for game balance to limit the number of moves
that
a player can make in a day.
Despite this, a few of the test players were in the habit of connecting
every half-hour or so and waiting for his energy level to go up by 0.1
so they
could perform a move (there was a war on) ... I guess there's a balance
here
between rewarding enthusiastic players and penalising players with
limited
time to devote.
Joel Kelso
-- joel@ee.uwa.edu.au -------------------------------
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Bruce: I wouldn't touch that with a barge-pole.
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