<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea --> <!--X-From-R13: Qnyvona Fverfvnf Rnexybpx <pnyvonaNqnexybpx.pbz> --> <!--X-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:16:18 -0700 --> <!--X-Message-Id: 199804290115.VAA28385#relay,mnsinc.com --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: 199804290046.TAA16295#smtp2,mailsrvcs.net --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, [MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</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="msg00221.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00223.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00221.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00234.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00222">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00222">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00222">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:16:00 -0400</LI> <LI><em>Delivery-date</em>: Tue Apr 28 18:16:18 1998</LI> <LI><em>Delivery-date</em>: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:16:18 -0700</LI> <LI><em>Envelope-to</em>: claw#kanga,nu</LI> <LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Sender</em>: "Petidomo List Agent,,,," <<A HREF="mailto:petidomo#kanga,nu">petidomo#kanga,nu</A>></LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> On 05:47 PM 4/28/98 -0700, I personally witnessed Jay Sax jumping up to say: > >Ha! thanks john, I love this one about junior monsters and so forth. >It inspires me to share one of my ideas which I hope I, or some of >the other fruitful-brainers among us can develop further at some >point. > >I call this one "the mobless mud" (aka "the monsterless mud"). Hmmm. I was looking at this and thinking about it and I had this other thought. Rather than have *all* the players come into a completely new world with nothing done, where things are really boring at first, why not have a period of time during which the players are given supreme cosmic powers they can use to build huge constructs and design areas? Basically, provide them with a completely different interface where they can dictate -- in an almost featureless world -- what places look like and where things fit together and what's in them. The thought here is that a group of players would come in, probably a relatively small one, and build this big world. After they've built this big world, they go out and tell people 'come look what I built', and advertise the place for you. Maybe you take the first hundred or so players and give them powers like this, but they have to pass a series of relatively difficult tests in order to actually get to where they can do anything; something like the 'tutorial' a lot of MUDs have, which always infuriates me because you start up a character and you know what you're doing and how to do it and they still force you to go through this annoying little series of rooms to pick up all your little starting pieces of equipment. Hopefully a quiz like that would weed out the easily bored, while the people who are excited by the concept sit there and say 'Ooohh!' and keep going. Once you have your 'elite' class in place, they're expected to take some form of important position in the world, while the other players play by different rules. This has some definitely sticky social aspects that are not altogether pleasant. This is why I think the 'elite' characters should play by different rules; you certainly don't expect one of the Greek gods to be complaining about his hemorrhoids, so the founding characters should be likewise different from the rest of the player base. However, the Greek gods also played by some rather sticky rules in their own world, and wouldn't very well be able to do something like create a powerful monster with no weakness or just blindly kill some person they didn't like. The founders of the world would be expected to operate indirectly in several respects, using various strange rules. Some of the suggested rules would be like, Eldar the Everstrong creates the mighty Sword of Dragon Slaying, which will decapitate any dragon with one swing! So he offers it to Bob the Wimpy, only to receive the message "You cannot give an item of this power directly to a player." So he goes, fine, I'll leave it somewhere and tell Bob to come and get it! Then he goes to drop the mighty sword in a room, and receives the message "This item is far too powerful to be left unguarded." So he has to construct a big powerful monster to guard it, which he does, and then drops the monster in the room. Cunningly, he then tells the monster to leave, but the monster refuses -- he's on guard duty! So Eldar tries to kill the monster, but is told that he cannot directly assist in the destruction of his own guardians. And so on. And so forth. This would probably be an interesting (and harrowing) experiment. A corollary might be, imagine if you let the first hundred people to log on to your Diku have level 55, or gave the first hundred people to log onto your TinyMUSH a wizbit. Basically, the people who join the MUD first get to define the MUD's shape and direction. -- MUD-Dev: Advancing an unrealised future. </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <ul compact><li><strong>Follow-Ups</strong>: <ul> <li><strong><A NAME="00299" HREF="msg00299.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></strong> <ul compact><li><em>From:</em> J C Lawrence <claw#under,engr.sgi.com></li></ul> <li><strong><A NAME="00234" HREF="msg00234.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></strong> <ul compact><li><em>From:</em> Ling <K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk></li></ul> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <UL><LI><STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="00221" HREF="msg00221.html">[MUD-Dev] re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> "Jay Sax" <cimri1#gte,net></LI></UL></LI> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00221.html">[MUD-Dev] re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00223.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00221.html">[MUD-Dev] re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00234.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00222"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00222"><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><A NAME="00233" HREF="msg00233.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) MOB or player? Re: Global Communications on Muds</A></strong>, John Bertoglio <a href="mailto:alexb#internetcds,com">alexb#internetcds,com</a>, Wed 29 Apr 1998, 05:46 GMT <LI><strong><A NAME="00224" HREF="msg00224.html">[MUD-Dev] META: Mail archives and MIME attachments</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 29 Apr 1998, 01:25 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00320" HREF="msg00320.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: META: Mail archives and MIME attachments</A></strong>, Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sat 02 May 1998, 06:36 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00221" HREF="msg00221.html">[MUD-Dev] re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></strong>, Jay Sax <a href="mailto:cimri1#gte,net">cimri1#gte,net</a>, Wed 29 Apr 1998, 00:47 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00222" HREF="msg00222.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Wed 29 Apr 1998, 01:16 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00234" HREF="msg00234.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></strong>, Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk</a>, Wed 29 Apr 1998, 12:43 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00299" HREF="msg00299.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 01 May 1998, 18:16 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00301" HREF="msg00301.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></strong>, Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Fri 01 May 1998, 18:58 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00421" HREF="msg00421.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: PK and my "Mobless MUD" idea</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 06 May 1998, 17:48 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </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>