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From: Matt Mihaly <the_logos@www.achaea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:02:19 +0000 (GMT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, John Buehler wrote:
> As I claimed in another reply to one of your posts, single player
> games (like books or movies) are well-suited to intense experiences,
> while multiplayer games - particularly those where you don't know
> who you'll be interacting with - are less capable of reliably
> providing such experiences. Because I can't guarantee the way that
> my players will interact with each other, I'm trying to lessen their
> belief that they will become mayors, barons and kings. Only one guy
> gets to be a king, and he's the most extreme player in the game.
Naah, that's not true. Was there only one king at any time in Earth's
history? Everyone can't be king in a meaningful sense, but not only
can there be many kings, there can be pyramids of power under the king
that expand downwards to include a lot of the players.
--matt
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