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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</H1>
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<LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI>
<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies </LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Richard Woolcock <<A HREF="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 23:20:53 -0700</LI>
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Michael.Willey#abnamro,com wrote:
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> Here's a question: What collective feature of these examples engages the
> player imagination and inspires this status game? I could just as easily
> see an attempt at creating a player currency flop spectacularly. What does
> it take for a simple perpetual prop to become a player currency, and how
> can we incorporate these ideas into our own MUDs?
Well I'm no expert in this area, about the closest I've got (in godwars only,
darkcity has nothing like this yet) is players who collect the severed heads
of other players whom they have killed, artifacts (unique items) and quest
tokens (players earn quest tokens from automated quests, which can be eaten or
regurgitated at will to create a sort of currency). I would guess that some
of the following rules could apply to helping a player currency become
successful:
1) Make the currency very difficult to get.
2) Give the currency some special value (like my quest points, which can be
spent to customise equipment). Gold/Silver/etc used to be used as currency
because it was - literally - worth its weight in that material. In other
words its value wasn't just face value.
3) Give the currency some sort of collectability value; something which makes
it fun to own.
4) Somehow arrange for the most powerful players in the mud to aquire some of
this currency (in other words, make some sort of apparent link between this
currency and being powerful).
5) Have something else in the mud equally (or more) powerful, or else have the
currency varied, to encourage the trading of it.
Well thats me out of ideas for now...IMO the most important of the above is
actually number 4 - if the greatest warriors in the land walk around with
hydra-teeth necklaces that they made themselves, all aspiring warriors will
eagerly await their chance to take on a hydra, thus "prooving themselves" to
the mud community. Not long after, you'll hear things like "group looking
for an h-warrior" over your public channels (if you have any)...in a mud
without levels, such trophies might well be the *only* way to judge the power
of individuals...
KaVir.
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<LI><STRONG>[MUD-Dev] Re: Administrative Meddling</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00900" HREF="msg00900.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Administrative Meddling</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 09 Jun 1998, 00:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00874" HREF="msg00874.html">[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00886" HREF="msg00886.html">[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Fri 05 Jun 1998, 18:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00887" HREF="msg00887.html">[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</A></strong>,
Michael.Willey <a href="mailto:Michael.Willey#abnamro,com">Michael.Willey#abnamro,com</a>, Fri 05 Jun 1998, 21:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00888" HREF="msg00888.html">[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</A></strong>,
Richard Woolcock <a href="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</a>, Fri 05 Jun 1998, 22:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00894" HREF="msg00894.html">[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</A></strong>,
Mike Sellers <a href="mailto:mike#bignetwork,com">mike#bignetwork,com</a>, Sat 06 Jun 1998, 03:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01060" HREF="msg01060.html">[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 16 Jun 1998, 01:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00921" HREF="msg00921.html">[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 09 Jun 1998, 21:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00927" HREF="msg00927.html">[MUD-Dev] Re:(fwd) Re: Multiple currencies</A></strong>,
T. Alexander Popiel <a href="mailto:popiel#beldin,snugharbor.com">popiel#beldin,snugharbor.com</a>, Wed 10 Jun 1998, 02:13 GMT
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