[MUD-Dev] Realistic travel times/virtual terrain

[Matthew Mihaly]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Richard Tew wrote:

> > From: Inq Admin [mailto:inqcode at excalibur.inetsolve.com]
> > Granted, we lost a
> > rather large number of our playerbase when it was implemented 
> > (I estimate
> > 30% of our 'regulars' ceased stopping by so often, with probably 10%
> > totally leaving the MUD), but it is now rarely even complained about.
> 
> Nice to find an admin that doesn't toady to the "change is implicitly
> bad" crowd :)  I find it so frustrating that people let their mud be
> limited by player objections against things that improve the depth of
> the game - although its not my playerbase at risk, obviously :)

Well, this is probably because a game with depth is not the object of the
muds that have 95% of the players out there. A mud that players enjoy (and
in at least 75% of the cases, that people will pay for) is the goal.

--matt




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