<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD --> <!--X-From-R13: pnyvonaNqnexybpx.pbz (Qnyvona Fverfvnf Rnexybpx) --> <!--X-Date: from babe.globecomm.net [207.51.48.8] by in11.ibm.net id 865580438.24422-1 Fri Jun 6 07:00:38 1997 CUT --> <!--X-Message-Id: 3397b09e.24549711#relay,mnsinc.com --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: Pine.GSO.3.95q.970605105128.11337C-100000@uhunix2 --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg01228.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg01230.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg01208.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg01201.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#01229">Author</A> | <A HREF="#01229">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#01229">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#null,net">mud-dev#null,net</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A> (Caliban Tiresias Darklock)</LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 07:02:22 GMT</LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997 19:49:58 PST8PDT, Nathan Yospe <yospe#hawaii,edu> wrote: >Bullshit. Had to be said. There is nothing exceptionally special about >tinys. [...] >There is NO justification for this degree of >seperatism. Elitism sucks, and I have never seen anyone who claimed that >Tinys were not muds who didn't suffer from a healthy dose of elitism. Excuse me. I was stating, and I think this was lost somewhere, that both types of server did certain things very well and other things rather badly. Somehow this turned into a Tiny vs. everything else war, and that is NOT what I intended. I have absolutely no interest in some server against server holy war, because I got over that bullshit when I was about 15. It's sort of like the Windows/Mac wars. Nobody really gives a shit, you're going to use what you want. My POINT, which I am going to restate here, is that an RP-centered environment is more easily created on a MUSH (read Tiny) than on a MUD (read whatever the hell you like). A system-centered environment, on the other hand, is more easily created on a MUD than a MUSH. (Tiny doesn't even have a dice rolling facility. Imagine that.) I was trying to present my own personal thoughts on what potential areas we could address to change this. I'm not sure whether we can even discuss this here. Evidently it's not acceptable to say that the vast majority of MUDs just may conceivably possibly need a little bit of work on the interface and command structure instead of flash-bang gee-whiz systems that can model the path of every single atom in the world all at the same time and simulate nuclear winter. But I was under the impression that we *did* have an ongoing thread about RP versus powergaming, and I wanted to try and turn it toward something that might have a productive result. So much for that idea. -+[caliban#darklock,com]+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- I am here to grind your eyes harder into the miasmic bile of life; to show you the truth and the beauty in the whisper of steel on silk and the crimson scent of blood as it rises to meet the caress of a blade. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+[<A HREF="http://www.darklock.com/]+-">http://www.darklock.com/]+-</A> </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <UL><LI><STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="01208" HREF="msg01208.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> Nathan Yospe <yospe#hawaii,edu></LI></UL></LI> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg01228.html">Re:[DESIGN] the physcis of magic.</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg01230.html">web archive for MUD Design List ?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg01208.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg01201.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#01229"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#01229"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="01233" HREF="msg01233.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>, Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Wed 07 Jan 1970, 22:41 GMT <LI><strong><A NAME="01236" HREF="msg01236.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Sat 07 Jun 1997, 00:43 GMT </LI> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="01199" HREF="msg01199.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>, Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Thu 05 Jun 1997, 23:35 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="01208" HREF="msg01208.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>, Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Fri 06 Jun 1997, 04:46 GMT <LI><strong><A NAME="01229" HREF="msg01229.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 06 Jun 1997, 14:00 GMT </LI> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="01201" HREF="msg01201.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] RP=MUSH/PG=MUD</A></strong>, Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Fri 06 Jun 1997, 00:02 GMT </LI> </ul> </ul> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="01100" HREF="msg01100.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>, clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 04 Jun 1997, 00:27 GMT </LI> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00933" HREF="msg00933.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>, Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Fri 30 May 1997, 01:27 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00971" HREF="msg00971.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Life</A></strong>, clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 31 May 1997, 06:29 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>