[MUD-Dev] Re: Marian's Tailor vs. Psychopaths

["Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com>]

On  3 Oct 98, Peck, Matthew x96724c1 wrote:
> 
> On the contrary, unrestricted and unlimited PK is death for a mud.  I
> remember reading somewhere about the four different types of mudders:
> explorers, killers, achievers, and socializers.  Killers tend to kill
> socializers, because they are easy prey.  Socializers will move on if there
> is nothing protecting them.  Then killers move on because there is no prey
> (achievers and explorers can generally kill killers, according to the
> article).  Thus, you can lose about half your player base, even those who
> might seem to benefit most from your policy.  By the way, anyone have an
> address for that page?
> 

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