May 2005
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMO community? Jaycen Rigger
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMOcommunity? Barry Kearns
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMOcommunity? Jaycen Rigger
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Matt Mihaly
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Barry Kearns
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Jaycen Rigger
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurttheMMOcommunity? Matt Mihaly
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurttheMMOcommunity? Barry Kearns
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheatinghurttheMMOcommunity? Tom Hunter
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheatinghurttheMMOcommunity? Steve "Bloo" Daniels
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheatinghurttheMMOcommunity? Jon A. Lambert
- SOC: Will company sanctionedcheatinghurttheMMOcommunity? Freeman, Jeff
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Morris Cox
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMOcommunity? Chris Richards
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMOcommunity? Paul Schwanz
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMO community? Peter Harkins
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMO community? Sean Marshall
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurttheMMOcommunity? P J
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMO community? John MacQueen
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt the MMO community? Peter Yu
- Concerning "Groups" Paolo Piselli
- Concerning "Groups" Jeff Gaskill
- Concerning "Groups" Koster, Raph
- Concerning "Groups" Jason Downs
- Action Figures John Buehler
- Action Figures John Buehler
- Action Figures Tom Gordon
- OT: UO Robin Hood Jaycen Rigger
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Jaycen Rigger
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Matt Mihaly
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy John Buehler
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Chris Richards
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Jaycen Rigger
John Buehler <johnbue@msn.com> wrote:
> This makes me wonder if the player governments work in smaller
> games because of greater cohesion in the player community.
My experience is with servers of 300 to 500 active accounts. Peak
player counts are typically below 60 on the best nights due to
badwidth limitations (very few free shards can afford a T1 line).
I find that even on small servers (40 to 60 active accounts, peak
player count at 20), player-run governments were collossal failures.
> Players on top of six or seven layers of vassals tended to live in
> the game, getting online during odd hours so that they could
> actually play the game, while all mainstream hours were devoted to
> helping vassals.
I think the problem there is what I'm trying to work around with
this system; the player is playing two games. I guess I assumed
that the Ruler position is going to be so busy being a Ruler that
players who are Rulers will be consumed with that role, and the
status and power conveyed by that role means they literally won't
have time to bother with grinding for the sake of whatever their
character class is. This might not be true for a lower-level Ruler,
but as the size of his city and responsibilities increases, he won't
have time or inclination to grind in the traditional ways.
As a completely mechanic-supported system, the Ruler should be a
social/political character. I think the failure you saw was because
they just didn't take the thing far enough. They poorly defined the
power and the role of that character "sub-class" in the game society
and players started dropping Peter-builts through the holes.
> Is it community size or some other attribute of games where the
> political process works? Is it that players inclined to read all
> the text in text MUDs are more inclined to be participants in
> complex processes?
Community size does have an effect. Read the essays:
http://www.legendmud.org/raph/gaming/index.html
Interesting question about text MUDs. I could tell you, though,
I've only ever played graphics-based.
Jaycen
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy cruise
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Jaycen Rigger
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Paul Schwanz
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Jaycen Rigger
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Paul Schwanz
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Jaycen Rigger
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Paul Schwanz
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy benton
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Rayzam
- DGN: Lords, Vassals, Serfs and the Clergy Jaycen Rigger
- DESIGN: Loot on demand (was: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity?) Freeman, Jeff
- DESIGN: Loot on demand (was: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity?) Cosmik
- DESIGN: Loot on demand (was: Will company sanctionedcheating hurt theMMOcommunity?) Koster, Raph
- DESIGN: Loot on demand (was: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity?) Jaycen Rigger
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games Shannon Appelcline
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games Joseph Hewitt
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games Mike Rozak
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games Jaycen Rigger
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games J C Lawrence
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games Paul Schwanz
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games Mike Shaver
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games J C Lawrence
- Guest Voices #2: Griefing in Online Games John Buehler
- [ANN] Solipsis, a shared virtual worlds in python J C Lawrence
- SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurttheMMOcommunity? ghovs
- Mud Dev FAQ - Part 2 Marian Griffith
- DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Jaycen Rigger
- DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Otis Viles
- DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? David Wright
- DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Otis Viles
- DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? J C Lawrence
- DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Michael Hartman
- DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Adam Spivey
- DGN: Emergent Behaviors spawned from - SOC: Will company sanctioned cheating hurt theMMOcommunity? Jaycen Rigger
- DGN: Absolutes, percentages and ranges cruise
- DGN: Absolutes, percentages and ranges Paolo Piselli
- DGN: Absolutes, percentages and ranges Brian Hook
- What level maximum do players like best? Eric
- What level maximum do players like best? Mordengaard
- What level maximum do players like best? Pandora
- What level maximum do players like best? cruise
- What level maximum do players like best? Jaycen Rigger
- What level maximum do players like best? Damion Schubert
- Comments on Griefing Article J C Lawrence