[MUD-Dev] PvP solutions WAS: UO rants

[Paul Schwanz - Enterprise Services]

> From: "Zak Jarvis" <zak at voidmonster.com>

 
> That doesn't stop me from being interested in how players would react to
> characters who refuse to do certain actions. My sense is that if it's
> presented correctly, most would accept it.

As I understood the "character psychology" planned for the original Middle-Earth 
Online, this was what they were considering.

Quite some time ago, I was playing around with having relationships defined in 
the game based on race, alignment, political agreements, etc.  A relationship 
value would then determine what actions were possible when interacting with 
other characters.  So you wouldn't be able to kill someone who was a "friend," 
for instance.  I gradually moved away from this in favor of a system that didn't 
prevent actions, but instead handed out appropriately harsh consequences 
depending on a number of factors which included relationship.

--Phinehas

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