[MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)

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On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, msew wrote:

> Unless that background story has some impact on the game, then it is
> just time wasted.  Unless Boffo has some over reaching significance
> in the game, then knowing about some peasant's grandfather just
> really should not matter in the game.  And if you are using NPC's as
> world background information transmittance, ALL of it will be posted
> to some website within 5 minutes of ANY player talking to the mob
> with that data. And this means that talking to mob to get that info
> -> pointless as there is a more efficient method out there.

The above is true only if all your players are 100% GoP types.

--matt

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