Subject: Re: Suggest Birth System in Majik
From: Timothy Little (tim@lilly-villa.little-possums.net)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 00:13:46 EET
Tommi Leino wrote: > Not all are willing or capable of making a character profile, myself > included, before entering the world, seeing places and people. I agree -- this is the quickest way to stuff up a character. You need to know a lot about a world before committing to character details. Otherwise, the profile 'examiners' have to either accept contradiction with existing world details, a multi-staged feedback process before allowing the new character into the world, or vague and world-generic profiles omitting anything that might conflict with in-game culture. > 1) It would be great to have a guiding player for the newbie who would > teach the basics of culture's way and guide them to do something. I fully agree with this point. Children are expected to get things wrong and have to find out from older people. Having native adults get basic cultural things wrong can be really annoying, both to the new player and to more experienced ones. The other side of the coin is the prevalence in existing MU*s for the in-game culture to be completely different from the documented culture. - Tim
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