Re: Player-Killers II - (Was Playtests and other game comments ... )

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:01:11 +0000

>>I’m glad that DW doesn’t suffer from it. But that might be down to the
types of players you have and not just the game world and how it
handles things ?<<

Of course it isnt.  We have dozens of players who are exactly the sort of
people who are infamous for PKing.  And with the amount of players we have you
are seriously suggesting we just 'got lucky' with all the non-aggressive ones?
Its the system, Jason.  Ask the players.  They'll tell you.

>>As for protecting income, we’re not looking at it that way. Yes, a
player that stays with us continues to pay us to play. But what’s
important is that the players continue to play.<<

Hmmm.

>> We’ve actively looked
into setting up the game and allowing people to play for free, so that
playing STSI and other games would be completely free to play, and
based on recent thinking that’s probably the way we’re going to go.<<

Best of luck.

>>I think there are more reasons than just game design for Pking, though
I’ll  agree that it is a major part of it. <<

Game design can most definately discourage antisocial play.  The problem is
that theres a big difference between a game designer, and somebody who can
program and wants to design a game.  (And no, this is not a reference to you at
all, since I've never seen your game I reserve my opinion, and hope for a good
one I can play!)

>>Sometimes it’s the calibre
of the players. Or the fact that it costs money to get new characters
in DW <g>.<<

Not really.  Maybe thats true in a game with ten players.  But in a game where
player numbers creep towards the thousands you get all sorts of players.

Steve T.

References

Re: Player-Killers II - (Was Playtests and other game comments ... )
MindShift Design <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Player-Killers II - (Was Playtests and other game comments ... )
MindShift Design <teammsd@mindshiftdesign.com>
Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000