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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 02 Sep 97 11:15:17 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00903.html">3.0.2.32.19970831122610.007a5320#mail,tenetwork.com</A>>, on 08/31/97
at 01:36 PM, Jeff Kesselman <jeffk#tenetwork,com> said:
At 08:37 AM 8/31/97 PST8PDT, AdamW wrote:
>An idea I personalyl like though its wa y to redical to get itn oa
>comemrcial product is "Karma Dice". As your Karma gets worse your
>dice get "loaded" so taht you have less and less ability to effect
>anything in the world.
This would seem a variation on a theme I espoused here several months
ago:
Creation of an effect on another character by a player increases the
player's own liability to having that effect created on him.
>>others give you positive, plus the admin can manually fool with your
>>character's karma...or slightly more interesting, one where the players
>>actually get a number of karma points that they can deliver each day to
>>people other than themselves.
Ala the rank points discussion we had here?
>We've played with this idea and in fact are workign with oen group
>who are very seriosu abotu it. Internally we have our doubts. The
>problem is that ANYTHIGN players can do to effect each other ends up,
>in our experience, becomign just another weapon or coercion tool.
>period. If Karma is very effective IMO yo uwill end up with "Karma
>wars" with guilds pooling their karma points and aoiming them aqt
>leaders of opposing guilds and such..
<shrug> This would seem a massive advantage to the system as you've
automatically created group action, cohesion, involvement, and
conflict. Ahh well. Different goals.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01074" HREF="msg01074.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 10:25 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="01086" HREF="msg01086.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Nathan Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 18:59 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01089" HREF="msg01089.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 19:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01090" HREF="msg01090.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 19:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01018" HREF="msg01018.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01021" HREF="msg01021.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Tue 02 Sep 1997, 19:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01022" HREF="msg01022.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Tue 02 Sep 1997, 19:41 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00878" HREF="msg00878.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Matt Chatterley <a href="mailto:root#mpc,dyn.ml.org">root#mpc,dyn.ml.org</a>, Sun 31 Aug 1997, 09:40 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00798" HREF="msg00798.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
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