[MUD-Dev] Problem Players [was: Guilds & Politics ]

[Koster]

On Tuesday, December 09, 1997 7:04 AM, Stephen 
Zepp[SMTP:zoran at enid.com] wrote:
[snip]
> Well, I agree, if you're talking about trying to see if a player 
always
> conforms to the "perfect player" model.  However, I'm talking more 
of an
> npc actor sayin "do I like this person? what have they done to me or 
my
> friends, what have they done _for_ me or my friends?"..then 
interact
> accordingly.  The person that pkills endlessly will be hunted by 
guards,
> bounty hunters, etc., prosecuted/threatened/finally assassinated by 
the
> Assassin's Club, but may even be approached secretly by the King who 
needs
> one of his enemies ( player or npc ) taken out.  Here's how it would 
work
> in my system ( partially coded ):

[snip example]
> Zoran

The above sounds wonderful, given that you have email registration, 
characters who never log out, etc. These provide important "identity 
tracking" which permit the enforcers of justice to track the villain 
down. Without them, though, it's next to impossible... Also, as scale 
grows, anonymity will become increasingly easy as well. Eventually, it 
may break down on you.It will be interesting to see if this is the 
case. It relies a lot on players' willingness to gossip, which may not 
work out that well (is it possible for a group of 100 players to get 
together and purposely report the same person for something nasty, to 
get their character destroyed?)

-Raph