Re: Olympia combat

From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Fri, 15 May 1992 23:19:04 +0000

In article <1992May15.224931.4748@aero.org> srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner) writes:

>As Rich would say, modern art is on the to-do list :-).

Yeah, once we started talking about Merchants of Venus in regard to an
economic system, Psychedelic Sculpture can't be far behind.

[...]
>That's my objection to the monthly obit reports, for instance.
>They're an unnatural (in the sense that they don't have any
>explanation in terms of the game universe) mechanism for alerting
>everyone to who's being anti-social.

They don't have any explanation in the *player* game universe. But
you're assuming that players are everything. There are 460 people
living in West Habyn; perhaps you should be happy that they don't
remember your unit numbers and tell people about them after you leave.

This being said, I don't strongly believe for or against the obituary
list; I just don't think it's obvious that it's evil or against the
spirit of the game. Murder is something that Joe Peasant doesn't seem
to like very much -- and combat traditionally is something that people
care about and talk about.

References

Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 15 May 1992 21:10:21 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Fri, 15 May 1992 22:49:31 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Fri, 15 May 1992 20:45:03 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 15 May 1992 21:10:21 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Fri, 15 May 1992 22:49:31 +0000
Re: Olympia combat
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Fri, 15 May 1992 20:45:03 +0000