Re: Olympia combat

From: skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 16:24:29 +0000

jwoolsey@cad1.gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey) writes:
> Olympia needs new user protections.

There are many suggestions for this problem.  All of them have
problems of one sort or another.

> 1) Primary characters can not be killed for 20 updates.

The old players would sure know who to ally with.  Just give
all your stuff to a newbie, and it will be safe.

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

Not a bad idea.

> I think entertaining should always produce more cash
> then menial labour. It makes sense to me. People will always show up for
> good humour.

So quit you day job and pursue a career as a stand up comic.  Try doing
it in a city with lots of other stand up comics.  Try to find a city
where all the comics have more talent than you, too.

Bet you'll end up washing dishes.

srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner):
> One solution to the newbie problem would be to have a city where
> combat (and certain other commands) weren't allowed, and which you
> couldn't enter once you'd left it.  Start all the newbies there, and
> let them move out into the real world once they felt ready for it.

What would prevent the newbie PC's from staying there forever, and
just sending formed units out into the world?

Sure, all of these proposals can be hacked and kludged in one way
or another to address the holes.  I'm still looking for the simple
solution which doesn't offer too many holes for abuse.

Perhaps just scattering newbies across the land, and making them
invisble for a while would work.  This might be folded into a bigger
sighting/contact scheme.

--
Rich Skrenta

References

Re: Olympia combat
jwoolsey@cad1.gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey)
Tue, 12 May 1992 21:27:59 +0000