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<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 22:19:19 -0700</LI>
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On 10:05 PM 6/9/99 -0700, I personally witnessed claw#kanga,nu jumping up
to say:
>On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 21:25:51 -0700
>Caliban Tiresias Darklock <caliban#darklock,com> wrote:
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>> Nobody *likes* to fail. It's okay if your game is hard and takes
>> time, but it's *not* okay if the user is expected to fail
>> repeatedly in the process of learning it.
>
>A lot of the, err, failure of failure can be mitigated if every time
>the player fails, it is reasonably obvious to him that if he only
>did XXX or YYY differently next time he'd have a decent chance of
>coming out a winner.
I'd also add the caveat that the failure needs to be small enough to allow
getting back onto your feet without much trouble. CR's in Diku derivatives
are a good example; if you wander into an area you can't handle, and you
get killed trying to get out because you're lost, not only are you unable
to easily find your corpse -- you're in no condition to even go looking for
it. As a result, I tend to consider helping people with CRs to be among the
noblest things you can do, provided you don't request some outrageous
payment. ;)
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00641" HREF="msg00641.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00668" HREF="msg00668.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00671" HREF="msg00671.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00674" HREF="msg00674.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00676" HREF="msg00676.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 05:26 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00697" HREF="msg00697.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00479" HREF="msg00479.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>,
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