[MUD-Dev] New Bartle article

[the_logos at www.achaea.com]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Vincent Archer wrote:

> According to the_logos at www.achaea.com:
 
>> But wasn't Sierra's LOTR 'permadeath' really not permadeath? Didn't
>> most of the work and time invested in the character go to amember
>> of that character's family, who the player then took over?
 
> None of the very few MMOG out there have a "pure" perma-death
> concept, i.e., when your character dies, all you take with you on
> the next one (if any) is what you - as a player - learned out of the
> game. They all feature a form of player-tied XP points.

Right. Perma-death to me is like being pregnant. Either you are or you
aren't. If you take things with you, then I don't think it deserves to
be called perma-death.

--matt

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