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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
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[Adam W:] (attribution done the hard way!)
:This is a pretty usual scenario. The question I pose to you, Jeff, or
:any other admin-type reading: would you be angry at the player? They
:basically circumvented a major device of the puzzle and allowed themselves
:to get the quest rewards before they really "should" have been able to.
:Would you applaud their inventiveness (while quickly fixing the brownie bug
:to make sure no one else decided to copy the idea), shrug your shoulder
:in indifference, or be angry at the player for not solving the quest correctly
:and what's more, utilizing a known bug in order to do so?
I've never been a read admin, but I've done lots of quest programming.
>From that point of view, I would applaud the solution and fix the problem.
Actually, I might even deliberately leave a hole in the problem so that
others could do the same thing, perhaps with a bit more thought/planning.
Something similar happened in my little world. The "Packrat" NPC can be
told to do things. A player found this out, and proceeded to order her
around, and down into the deep caves, etc., to help out in fighting.
The player was feeling guilty about "cheating". Well, I had already
noticed that you could do this, and had in fact gone in and made some
minor changes to support it better. My position is that I like players
to be inventive and original, and will go to some trouble to support
them, even if it in some way circumvents some artificial limitations.
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01099" HREF="msg01099.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 22:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00924" HREF="msg00924.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01117" HREF="msg01117.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
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Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 14:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01082" HREF="msg01082.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 15:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01081" HREF="msg01081.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Maddy <a href="mailto:maddy#fysh,org">maddy#fysh,org</a>, Thu 04 Sep 1997, 15:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01098" HREF="msg01098.html">[MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01153" HREF="msg01153.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Character evolution</A></strong>,
Brandon J. Rickman <a href="mailto:ashes#pc4,zennet.com">ashes#pc4,zennet.com</a>, Mon 08 Sep 1997, 06:54 GMT
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