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From: Mike Sellers <mike@bignetwork.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 17:57:28 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
At 09:03 PM 8/7/98 -0700, brandon wrote:
> When I first discovered the online world, I paid a decent amount of cash
>to play a full IC mud in which OOC was not accepted. ...
> The thing is, this mud wasn't spectactular in the way of combat, or
>interface, but it was strong in Roleplaying and that kept people coming
>back...
> I believe though that the roleplaying aspect died a little bit when they
>expanded their user base beyond what they currently had...
Another example of Koster's Law: the quality of RPing is inversely
proportional to the size of the user base. =20
This goes along with Hanke's Law: in every aggregation of people online,
there is an irreducible proportion of ... jerks (he used a different word
:-) ). =20
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