January 2008

• no levels / temporary levels Timothy Dang
• • no levels / temporary levels Sean Howard
  • • no levels / temporary levels Chris Laponsie
  • no levels / temporary levels cruise
  • no levels / temporary levels Peter Harkins
• The Illusion of World Size (Was: Player Choice - How Much is Too Much?) Christopher Lloyd
• • The Illusion of World Size (Was: Player Choice - How Much is Too Much?) cruise
• [Design] Non-cliche content creation Mike Rozak
• • [Design] Non-cliche content creation cruise
  • • [Design] Non-cliche content creation Damion Schubert
    • • [Design] Non-cliche content creation Mike Rozak
      • [Design] Non-cliche content creation cruise
      • • [Design] Non-cliche content creation Damion Schubert
        • • [Design] Non-cliche content creation cruise
          • • [Design] Non-cliche content creation Joshua Clausen
            • • [Design] Non-cliche content creation Richard Boehme
              • • [Design] Non-cliche content creation Joshua Clausen
              • [Design] Non-cliche content creation cruise
        • [Design] Non-cliche content creation Richard Boehme
• Specialization Damion Schubert
• • Specialization Sean Howard
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                      • • Specialization Roger Hicks
                          On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Sean Howard <squidi@squidi.net> wrote:
                          > "cruise" <cruise@casual-tempest.net> wrote:
                          >
                          > > It's not success if everyone has it all.
                          >
                          > I had a teacher who believed the same thing, such that test scores were
                          > given relative to other students. If five students got a perfect score and
                          > one student missed one question of hundreds, he would automatically get a
                          > B by virtue of not being in the top 10% scorers. There were students who
                          > literally failed his class with work that would've been consider B-quality
                          > work. How well you did in the class was entirely dependent on who else was
                          > in your class. Needless to say, he wasn't a particularly favored teacher.
                          > He caused people to drop out of computer science. He caused people to drop
                          > out of COLLEGE.
                          >
                          > Competition for something so universally required as success is not just
                          > detrimental, it's cruel.
                          >
                          Not cruel....realistic. Thirty applicants apply for a job but only one
                          gets it. The company doesn't expand its offer of a job to the top ten
                          (or twenty, or thirty) simply because they all "did good" on their
                          interview. Of course, that doesn't mean you want this kind of realism
                          in a game, but most "professional" level games do require this level
                          of realism:
                          * Only one NFL team can win the superbowl
                          * WOW Arena teams can only get a good rating by defeating a certain
                          quantity/quality of other teams
                          * Any MMO PvP environment demonstrates this on a small scale
                          
                          BobTHJ
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