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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00355.html">Pine.GSO.3.96.970803191909.11347G-100000@dryslwyn</A>>, on 08/03/97
at 11:39 AM, Martin Keegan <martin#cam,sri.com> said:
>On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 clawrenc#cup,hp.com wrote:
>> In <Pine.GSO.3.96.970628042112.7843O-100000@tay>, on 06/27/97
>> at 08:36 PM, Martin Keegan <martin#cam,sri.com> said:
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>> >On Wed, 25 Jun 1997 clawrenc#cup,hp.com wrote:
>> Precisely. Just what is there for a player to do once he's made Wiz
>> on a standard MUD other than thumb twiddle or torture the local
>> inhabitants?
>Nothing. For that player, the game is over. That is NOT to say that
>it's badly designed, nor that this isn't a huge problem. I spot an
>assumed orthodoxy here.
Yes, much the like assumed orthodoxy that MUD users want to play
heros. Nightmare provides a perfect case in point to demonstrate the
fallacy of that one.
>Which "Legend" is everyone referring to?
mud.aus.sig.net 9999
>Ok. But it's really depressing for us scratchers to have to hear
>unmodified Diku being passed off as original. It's demoralising.
Thou art a dino.
>> To an extent Bartle was right: don't worry about losing off players,
>> there are always more. The playing population refreshes itself,
>> fractionally, every year. (I'd be *really* interested in a study on
>> what that fraction was.) As the years pass that fraction accumulates
>Hmmm ... I smell the festering seeds of my next controversial
>research paper here ... :)
Fertilise, fertilise, fertilise.
>> >In recent discussions with EdFromO...
>
>He's now referring to "its/it's" as "Advanced You're".
I'll confess to knowing and largely ignoring the difference as my own
minor kick towards correcting Englush structure.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00053" HREF="msg00053.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Neighborhood watch</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 03 Jul 1997, 05:55 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00047" HREF="msg00047.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Another Approach (was: Integrating PK)</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 03 Jul 1997, 02:47 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00045" HREF="msg00045.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] "short" Introductory Message (fwd)</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 03 Jul 1997, 01:10 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00355" HREF="msg00355.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] "short" Introductory Message (fwd)</A></strong>,
Martin Keegan <a href="mailto:martin#cam,sri.com">martin#cam,sri.com</a>, Mon 04 Aug 1997, 01:36 GMT
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clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 12 Aug 1997, 21:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00514" HREF="msg00514.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] "short" Introductory Message (fwd)</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Wed 13 Aug 1997, 06:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00569" HREF="msg00569.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] "short" Introductory Message (fwd)</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 14 Aug 1997, 20:59 GMT
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