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

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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Chris Lloyd wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu [mailto:mud-dev-admin at kanga.nu]On Behalf Of
>> the_logos at www.achaea.com
>> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 21:32
>> To: mud-dev at kanga.nu
>> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)
 
>>> [...] This way the big quests are very sought after and guarded,
>>> whereas the smaller ones are more frequently given out due to
>>> their already low value.
 
>> This will not work. It only takes one person to blab. I, for
>> instance, would take much more joy in telling everyone how to do
>> the quest than I would in keeping it to myself. If the reward is SO
>> great that I just must have it all to myself (high unlikely), then
>> eventually someone will just pay me real money to know how to do
>> it, and the knowledge shall be theirs. It is pointless trying to
>> engineer knowledge-supression. Information wants to be free!  >
 
> So what if one person blabs? Its their own loss. I would expect
> people to give away the solutions to the lower-xp quests to the
> newbies, and to keep the higher-level, more xp ones to themselves
> and only share them with their close allies. From an admin point of
> view, do you really care how many people do those big quests? As
> long as they don't give out any world-changing items, its up to the
> mortals to decide if they want 1000xp for the quest or 10xp for the
> same quest after they tell a few people. I would hope that this
> might mean that players would actually have to trust each other
> occasionally!

The thing with the net is that if one person blabs, everyone
knows. One person makes a website and it does not take long, if it's
got useful information, for that information to disseminate. You say
it's up to the mortals to decide if they want 1000xp for the quest or
10xp for the quest, but that's not how the mortals look at things.

Players don't care about macro-issues like that for the most
part. They just want to know why doing the quest doesn't give them
jack shit. As for the players trusting each other....you can trust a
few other people (sort of), but you certainly cannot trust a few
hundred, few thousand, or few hundred thousand people.

--matt

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