Re: Olympia combat

From: jwoolsey@cad1.gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey)

Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 21:27:59 +0000

In article <1992May12.143728.17634@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>In article <18656@ector.cs.purdue.edu> sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin) writes:
>>
>>It came to pass that Rocko 'The Truth' Zigarelli tried combat in
>>Olympia, and found it lacking. [...]
>
>Poor Rocko.
>
>The one thing that you do have going for you, at least, is that you
>drink the proper soft drink for hacking: Mountain Dew. But the life of
>a game writer is never easy, for the people hasten to heap praise on
>you until they lose, whereupon they flip cowpatties all o'er your
>apartment.
>
>:-)

Killing newbies wouldn't be so bad except that you are killing people who
can't fight back cause they haven't been playing for 20-30 turns, which
isn't really fair.

Olympia needs new user protections.
1) Primary characters can not be killed for 20 updates. They always run away.

2) Primary characters have a hidden period. For the first 10 days nothing
they own shows up on everyone else's reports.

3) Newbie is not widely available. ie There isn't a sign on 7K gold players
saying shoot me in the foot.

4) Decrease the rewards for killing people in general.

5) Make the law a real force. Lock people up for 4 updates if they kill
someone, and there is a witness. Or at least pump out a real force to deal
with them in capture mode. Of course you can get out of jail for a mere
20K gold :-)

6) Retire people as Noghtinghams if they kill more the a certain number of
people per updates on.

-----cut ---- :-)

I have no real idea what I am talking about. I am about to be a newbie myself
I have just seen technieques like this in other games that had similar newbie
killing problems.

I just wanted to point this out. I know that entertainers recently got changed
so that people get bored. I think entertaining should always produce more cash
then menial labour. It makes sense to me. People will always show up for
good humour.

References

Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 12 May 1992 14:37:28 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia combat
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 12 May 1992 14:37:28 +0000