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29875: Re: [MUD-Dev] believable NPCs (was Natural Language Generation)

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From: Douglas Goodall <dgoodall@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:48:46 -0400
References: [1] [2] [3] [4] <-newest
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Amanda Walker wrote:

> I don't have all the answers, I'm just speculating that the "movie
> / actor" analogy may not be the only one that could be used.
> After all, having a few dozen people try to entertain tens of
> thousands of people (the current MMO business model) isn't exactly
> a recipe for success either.

That ratio of creators to consumers is similar throughout all the
entertainment industries: books, magazines, movies, tv, even theme
parks. The recipe for success is to entertain the most people with
the least resources.
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