Re: alternative goals

From: jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (John Morris)

Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:07:01 +0000

Ennro wrote:

>We have always avoided publishing a top ten of best players, highest skills,
>etc, although we've repeatedly been asked to do it. First of all, it's
>pointless
>in a game where some players have played for five years and others have
>played
>for a week. Even if that wasn't the case, we don't want that kind of
>competitive
>spirit. It works counter the goal of "living" the game. Some people would go
>off
>and try to rise in the rankings, others would complain about it being unfair
>that they can never get thre because the race they choose is oh so much worse
>off than whichever race currently holds the most places in the top ten,
>players
>will create mules to rise help their faction rise in the ranks, and so forth,
>an
>endless stream of terrible things I wouldn't wish upon any GM. I've played in
>games where such highscore lists exist and fallen vistim to the same kind of
>thinking. Empiria was the game where I played the meanest yet, only to keep
>my
>alliance in that top ten.
>
I can see where rankings in an ongoing game would be a bigger challenge to do
correctly.  Maybe 'Top Traders who've played less than 50 turns' or something
like that?

It might be tough to pull off but a certain subset of PbM players really like
the feedback they get from quantitative scores, rankings, and various
comparisons with other players.

>> >> The official 'winner' of Gunboat Empires, the guy who gets the plaque,
>is
>> >the
>> >> player who is voted 'Best Player' by his fellow players for that game.
>> >
>> >In a game of 1400 players, where you only ever meet about 50-100 or so,
>> >that's
>> >something that would be heavily influenced by roleplaying. A nice idea,
>> >really.
>> >We might steal it :-)
>>
>> I'd be honored if you considered it a gift.
>
>*grin* Thanks. We're currently stabilizing the code and not adding too many
>new
>features, but this one goes on the big list of ideas.
>
I hear you about the idea list ;-)

--John
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References

Re: alternative goals
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Sun, 04 Mar 2001 03:32:06 +0000