🚀 go-pugleaf

djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:

>It's not that player-player combat is wrong, it's that if not agreed
>upon by both sides, it is socially unacceptable.  98% of the people
>who do kill other players end up complaining when players try to
>prevent this (and how it's not fair that players are ganging up
>against them).  It is extremely disruptive to players who are trying
>to play the game, solve the puzzles, etc., to suddenly have someone
>kill them, take all of their possessions, and lose a level.  In a
>single-player game, at least you can restore a save game.
>(Imagine a multi-player nethack, where high level players waited
>on the first level to kill players just entering)

I am currently fiddling with the Diku source, working on my own MUD.
I may or may not run it on my SUN 4/100 for people in local Seattle area.
If I do decide to run the thing there will be the following changes:

1.  One character per account.
2.  Death is FINAL.
3.  Computer enforced mourning period where a specific account may not
    access the game after the death of their character for a certain
    time period (depending on level).
4.  No restrictions on player killing.
5.  There will be no Gods, Immortals, Wizards, or any support staff.

I think I will call it AnarchyMUD.  I expect people to deal with "bad
people" the same way they do in real life.

I am not sure if people will enjoy playing this mud, but it will be an
interesting experiment.  Oh yeah, gotta get more phone lines, sigh.

mikeh