[MUD-Dev] PvP Systems

[J C Lawrence]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:21:28 +0000 (GMT) 
the logos <the_logos at www.achaea.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:17:33 -0800 John Buehler <johnbue at msn.com>
>> wrote:
>>> J C Lawrence writes:

> That's a pretty old idea actually. Some text MUDs used to just run
> during off-peak hours, for instance.

Which is not what I find interesting.  What's interesting is taking
thje idea of staged timed announced events (which have been
extensively discussed here) and combining that with limited staged
runtimes.  It really becomes a ticketed ride at that point.

>> Oddly enough I'm no great fan of anonymity, and consider it
>> highly over-rated.  What I'm defending against is the ability to
>> absolutely identify.  If you want to put it into sound bite
>> terms, I'm against the technology being present to establish a
>> universal and inescapable means of identifying the human behind a
>> transaction.  The potential and invitation for abuse is just too
>> high.

> Just as a side note to this, there is going to be increasing
> demand from internet merchants to develop systems that provide for
> a positive identification rate higher than we have now...

Yup, I've already started to see this with drivers license numbers
and other forms of ID being requested (and recorded).

> It seems almost inevitable to me that sometime in the next 10
> years we're going to have wide-spread use of biometrics in credit
> card holder identification. 

This I doubt, but for other off-topic reasons.  It fails to basic
reuirements of leverage and integration.

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
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