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<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
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Sometime at or around 08:01 AM 1/8/98 +0000, I personally witnessed Miroslav
Silovic jumping up to shout:
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>I'd think that it would be
>possible to design a way to financially compensate players who turn
>former hack/social MUD into immersive roleplaying experience (MUSHers
>do it for free... ;) ) - in the form of free hours, for instance.
>
>Of course, the challenge is to do it in the way that'd be fair to all
>the players.
A similar situation: In most RPGs, you receive XP bonuses for good
roleplay. On
most MUDs, you receive XP for combat. Period. A challenge I've often looked at
and considered is how to reward the roleplayers without being unfair to the
combat folks -- for example, on most White Wolf-based systems, you receive XP
*only* for RP and never for combat. As a result, combat is rather rare. On
most
MUDs, as I've mentioned, there are XP for combat but never for RP. As a
result,
of course, RP is considered a waste of time (what does it get you?) and hence
not invested in. I've considered a few ways of handling this, but I'm having
real difficulty coming up with something fair. Has anyone managed to come up
with an equitable method of awarding RP-based XP with an automated system, or
does anyone have any thoughts on the matter?
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00102" HREF="msg00102.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 08 Jan 1998, 01:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00124" HREF="msg00124.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
Vadim Tkachenko <a href="mailto:vadimt#4cs,com">vadimt#4cs,com</a>, Thu 08 Jan 1998, 21:15 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00114" HREF="msg00114.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
Mike Sellers <a href="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</a>, Thu 08 Jan 1998, 14:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00115" HREF="msg00115.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#zesoi,fer.hr">silovic#zesoi,fer.hr</a>, Thu 08 Jan 1998, 15:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00116" HREF="msg00116.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 08 Jan 1998, 16:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00119" HREF="msg00119.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00125" HREF="msg00125.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 08 Jan 1998, 21:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00219" HREF="msg00219.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00168" HREF="msg00168.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP</A></strong>,
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