[MUD-Dev] Re: Selling Godhoods!?!

[Christopher Kohnert]

Kevin Scott London wrote:
> 
> The next point is that being able to buy gods, will breed resentment, and
> mortals will lose respect for those Gods.  Now Matt says that he only
> picks immortals that can deal with that, but my question to Matt is if you
> can see these traits why do you need to charge 3000 at all (other than for
> the cash flow)?  I know of a player on Realms of Despair that paid almost
> 2k for equipment he has on the game, and peoples view of him are not very
> high (we don't sell or condone the sell of equipment).  When you sell gods
> I think this viewpoint will be even greater.  Matt said once that when
> people say they can reason things out without experiment that they don't
> have much experience admin. muds (not a direct quote ;) ).  But there are
> some things, like I know giving a mortal 30000 hps and a great weapons
> would not be a good idea, with or without experimentation.  And I think
> selling godhoods is one of these things that can be reasoned out.
> 
> Finally, besides giving them some incentive (IE they don't want to lost
> their money), I don't see how money weeds out bad gods, to me it seems
> like it just weeds out alot of potentially good gods.

I think the idea is being a bit misunderstood.  If I understand it
correctly, the idea is not really to sell godhood at all.  Merely as an
incentive (after approval as a God) to stay a god.  Simply increase the
investment the player has in the God, so to keep them around a bit
longer.  It's not really an issue of letting just anyone become a god if
they've got 3k just lying around (or eat nothing but dirt to afford
it).  He has said that the traditional path of becoming a god (ie chosen
by him) is still available, which is based upon the merits of their
mortal character(s), those being longevity, commitment, general good
character qualities, roleplaying abilities, etc.  The only real problem
I can see with the whole arrangement, is the 'deflation' of the godhood
status in the eyes of mortals.  But this can be avoided with a clear
statement, that it is not that the god bought the position, merely a fee
they had to pay to stay one. (Such as the dues to a club one may join).

Chris



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