Re: Continuing anger from game to game

From: chrisk@yogi.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Chris Kessel)

Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article <799282325snz@sandj.demon.co.uk>, simon@sandj.demon.co.uk (Simon Reed) writes:
|> What discussions have occurred about players carrying greivences from one
|> game to another in Galaxy or any other games?  I ask since this may be
|> about to happen to me.  I am in two Galaxy games and role-playing both
|> positions as *very* different characters this feels not right.
|>
|> What do you think?

Well, depends.  I an honest guy and I don't play mind games or lie to
win in PBM games, well, in all games really.  I like to pit wits against
wits.  I'll bluff, fake, try to set up allies to nail him when he's
not expecting it, but all in good fun.  I try to be on good relations
even with those I'm attacking.  Hell, in one game my worst enemy was
one of my best friends in the game and we didn't even know each other
before the game.

However...there are some true assholes out there who will sacrifice
anything and anyone to win a stupid game.  People who play that way
without regard to the fact that there are other *people* in the game
who build friendships and trust like in any other group activity.  Those
people I do not forgive...

The jerks I remember and I do my level best to slam their reputation in
every game I play with them there after.  My motto is you may win one
game by being a jerk, but I'll make sure your reputation precedes you
in game there after and you'll be lucky to even survive.

On the flip side, those who have shown themselves to be good, trustworthy
people I'll promote as someone worth allying with...even if it's not
to my advantage.

Some, and this has been said to me before, might say, "Relax, it's
just a game."   And my response is that is exactly my point.  The core
of a multi-player game is the people and sometimes the friends you make.

Winning a simple game is never worth treating people in a shabby fashion.
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Christopher Robin Kessel	Portland, Oregon | Yes, I was named
chrisk@protocol.com		Protocol Systems | after *that* Christopher
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Why, I have piglet pasted on my window!          | is my hero. :)
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Continuing anger from game to game
simon@sandj.demon.co.uk (Simon Reed)
Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000

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Continuing anger from game to game
simon@sandj.demon.co.uk (Simon Reed)
Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000