Re: Olympia Gripes

From: cedman@capitalist.princeton.edu (Carl Edman)

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.951128152101.11645A-100000@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu>,
Mark Hendrickson  <eahg128@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
> You may have spoken blunty but you have failed to address the very
> real "fourth" option that we who don't want to end G1 have voiced over &
> over again.  If you're not having fun, quit & stop bothering us (as BtA
> _or_ Carl the gamer).  Instead of AOO kills all, or AOO builds monstrous
> power, or G2, we can have Servants of the Art & other important but bored
> factions quit & G1 goes on (independent of the creation of G2).

To be even more blunt: Neither the AOO as a whole, nor any of the AOO
factions choose what actions they'll take based primarily or I dare
say secondarily or tertiarily upon what the wishes and desires of your
particular faction happen to be at this time (and, no, your mage can
not have BtAs brains for breakfast next month).  So any additional
options are not yours to choose.  All you can help to decide is which
of our options (permanent stasis and repression, global war, official
declaration of victory with an afterlife of G1 until G2 starts) comes
to pass.

> I have not seen any other quitters argue that because THEY were
> quiting, the game should end.

The difference is that no one before has won G1.  As a matter of fact
almost all who quit before did so because they had been wiped out.

> Such an attitude is mind-boggling & frankly childish.  Most people
> learn around two years of age that the world does not revolve around them.

Please do try not to insult me.  Over the years I've done my best to
maintain friendly, or at least polite relationships even with players
with whom I was fighting in some game.  That policy has served me well
over time.  Your last statement suggests that it would be one which
you could stand to adopt as well.

> If the AOO quits will G1 change?  obviously.  Will it change for
> the worse:  maybe, but I doubt it.  I imagine that if the big superpower
> is elminated, other factors will rise to the surface.  You will note that
> the real world global situation is certainly not boring since the demise
> of the USSR, although it's certainly different.  Likewise, we can expect
> a new political climate if major AOO players quit.

On danger of pointing out the bleedingly obvious, let me say that
there is a difference between the real world and a game.  The real
world will go on, one hopes, for ever.  But in a competitive game as
soon as one party has won the competition in every measurable regard,
it becomes the other parties to concede and the winning party to
gracefully acknowledge this.  Then a new game can start with good
feeling all around.

Carl Edman

References

Olympia - Time for G2?
Rob Rodgers <rrodgers@unex.ucla.edu>
Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia Gripes
Mark Hendrickson <eahg128@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu>
Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Olympia - Time for G2?
Rob Rodgers <rrodgers@unex.ucla.edu>
Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Olympia Gripes
Mark Hendrickson <eahg128@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu>
Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000