[MUD-Dev] Bay Area Press re: UO, the good the bad and the Ugl y.

[Richard Tew]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Hughes [mailto:charles.hughes at bigfoot.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:50 PM
> To: 'mud-dev at kanga.nu'
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Bay Area Press re: UO, the good the bad and the
> Ugly.
> 
> 
> On Monday, June 05, 2000 11:18 AM, Dave Rickey 
> [SMTP:daver at mythicgames.com] wrote:
> > Deliberately including things that are not fun in your game 
> is stupid.
> 
> Actually, that's a personal call.  I make bannocks (food) on MUME,
> something that takes considerable time, can be automated, and is *not*
> fun to many people.  I happen to like it.  I also happen to like
> exploring, and on the rare occasion when some evil thing crosses
> my path, I like to kill it. (Or, more often, be killed by it. :)

I was going to use things like this as a basis for my mud, that is
using actual medieval tools and processes to do everyday tasks.
The only thing that stops me is the extreme difficulty in finding
the amount of indepth information needed.  That and how boring it
is to do the required research.

Richard.



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