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19358: RE: [MUD-Dev] I Want to Forge Swords. [Another letter to game des igners]
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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster@verant.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:11:48 -0700
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Nixon
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 12:43 PM
> To: mud-dev@kanga.nu
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] I Want to Forge Swords. [Another letter to game
> designers]
> Raph Koster wrote:
>> As a side note, originally, some of us opposed having moongates
>> either, because of the reduction of travel time. We were told that
>> they had to be there. We then pointed out crowding issues and
>> slowdowns that would occur if they were placed in cities (their
>> traditional location), so they got moved outside of the cities.
> Huh?
> Silly nitpicking point, but the moongates were never in the cities.
Yah, someone else pointed that out. But I do seem to recall Richard
Garriott holding out for moongates in the cities, that's where the
"subway station" metaphor came from...
-Raph
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