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15431: RE: [MUD-Dev] PvP solutions WAS: UO rants

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From: Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services <Paul.Schwanz@east.sun.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:06:37 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> From: "Zak Jarvis" <zak@voidmonster.com>

 
> That doesn't stop me from being interested in how players would react to
> characters who refuse to do certain actions. My sense is that if it's
> presented correctly, most would accept it.

As I understood the "character psychology" planned for the original Middle-Earth 
Online, this was what they were considering.

Quite some time ago, I was playing around with having relationships defined in 
the game based on race, alignment, political agreements, etc.  A relationship 
value would then determine what actions were possible when interacting with 
other characters.  So you wouldn't be able to kill someone who was a "friend," 
for instance.  I gradually moved away from this in favor of a system that didn't 
prevent actions, but instead handed out appropriately harsh consequences 
depending on a number of factors which included relationship.

--Phinehas

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