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<LI><em>From</em>: "Eli Stevens (KiZurich)" <<A HREF="mailto:c718157#showme,missouri.edu">c718157#showme,missouri.edu</A>></LI>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu [<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu]On">mailto:mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu]On</A> Behalf Of
> Ling
>
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> A small gameworld would encourage crowding and more player-player
> interaction but this very same advantage can be a disadvantage. It
> could also help avoid the Brand New and Damn Empty Mud Syndrome that
> afflict most muds when they start out. More attention could be paid to
> detail so locations could be made more intricate.
This is insteresting... I had been trying to think of MUD aspects that are
accepted as truths without question. Bigger Is Better is almost certainly
one.
However, if a MUD is going to be run this way, somehow I doubt that there
will be any "secrets." If there are, it would probably be best if there
were in-game reasons to keep the knowledge to oneself. And they would have
to be strong enough reasons to fight the average teenager's (me five years
ago :) need to show off to newbies. Hmm.
PvP Politics would probably help keep player interest high. (There would
have to be something, imagine a freshly cloned Diku, with only Miggard...
*shudder*) As would allowing player programming, but that starts to tread
into MOO-land...
Expansion of the gamewould could be handled also, if rooms were added one at
a time. (I guess this would only work in wilderness - "Why does the main
street just end?") There would not be the typical "new area rush" that is
so common.
Interesting idea. *thinks more*
Silence is small
Eli
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] In-Game Languages</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00009" HREF="msg00009.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] In-Game Languages</A></strong>,
Michael Hohensee <a href="mailto:michael#sparta,mainstream.net">michael#sparta,mainstream.net</a>, Mon 05 Apr 1999, 03:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00010" HREF="msg00010.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] In-Game Languages</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Mon 05 Apr 1999, 17:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00016" HREF="msg00016.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] In-Game Languages</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00011" HREF="msg00011.html">[MUD-Dev] Confined Gameworld</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk</a>, Tue 06 Apr 1999, 05:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00012" HREF="msg00012.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Confined Gameworld</A></strong>,
Eli Stevens (KiZurich) <a href="mailto:c718157#showme,missouri.edu">c718157#showme,missouri.edu</a>, Tue 06 Apr 1999, 05:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00017" HREF="msg00017.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Confined Gameworld</A></strong>,
Richard Woolcock <a href="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</a>, Wed 07 Apr 1999, 03:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00013" HREF="msg00013.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Confined Gameworld</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 06 Apr 1999, 06:00 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00015" HREF="msg00015.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Confined Gameworld</A></strong>,
The Wildman <a href="mailto:wildman#microserve,net">wildman#microserve,net</a>, Tue 06 Apr 1999, 16:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00022" HREF="msg00022.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] In-Game Languages</A></strong>,
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