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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 01:11:00 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
> Matthew Mihaly wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
>
> > Diplomacy. Always my model of a PURE multiplayer game.
> >
>
> After I wrote my first post on this subject (which basically said what you
> did except less succinctly), it occurred to me that politics (or diplomacy
> as you call it) are the essence of multiplayer games.
>
While I meant a particular game, yes, there is in fact a way to experience
all of the joys of politics, double-dealing, backstabbing, and deception
currently and on many muds. This might be just one reason why people play
on poorly run stockmuds run by committees of non like-minded administrators.
Are people not attracted to games that have a reputation for bickering
and acrimony between the administrators? I've been on muds with stable
populations of 60-100 which had no significant added features. Yet the
primary activity consisted of exchanging rumor and gossip, making friends
and enemies, and moving up social heirarchies. The metagames of a talker
overlaid on a HnS mud.
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