[MUD-Dev] Re: UBE/high: Re: FW: UBE/high: Re: W IRED: Kilers have more fun

["S. Patrick Gallaty" <patrick#gric,com>]

Erm, speaking for myself - I think I understood the hypothetical dilemma here 
in the tailor problem, but I don't make affordances within my virtual domains
for those sorts of people.   There are more satisfying places for people who
want to heavy RP than my muds... and I won't build in exceptional 
compromises to accomodate them.
Thus I did not respond.  It's not that I am some kind of aboriginal backwater
tyro (thank you for the analogy dr cat), but rather that abstracted 
non-competitive nonviolent role playing isn't why I write games.
So I suspect that there are other game designers here who feel similarly.

I also suspect that those of us who *do* understand but don't commiserate
chose not to respond. :)

I do make affordances for non-combat players, but they fit into the mileu
somewhere.  They are blacksmiths, healers, etc.  the logistical element.


Dr. Cat coughed:

|I think you explained it fine.  It's just like a travelling salesman from 
|America who sells TV antennas and sparkplugs going to someplace with some 
|tribe that's never encountered TVs or cars, and trying to explain what his 
|antennas and sparkplugs are for.  Like Australian aborigines or someone.