[MUD-Dev] Summary of PvP attempts?

[Vincent Archer]

According to Matt Mihaly:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Koster, Raph wrote:
...
>>   Player-based: Free
>> 
>>     * Anyone can attack anyone 
>>     * Often accompanied by admin-based solutions 
>>     * Does not scale to larger populations very well 
>>     * Relies on social mechanics to curb grief player behavior 
>>     * Reduction in audience of up to ~40%

> You think that low? I bet if you just ins'otituted open PK on
> Everquest as a whole, they would, within 20 months, lose more than
> half their audience.

Judging by what I know of the "carebears" (yeech) players, I can
tell you it wouldn't take more than 4 months to halve the
population. Not 20.  Changing the rules and social dynamics in such
a major way during the life of the game will alienate the players in
a big way.

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Vincent Archer                                         Email: archer at nevrax.com

Nevrax France.                              Off on the yellow brick road we go!
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