[MUD-Dev] New Bartle article

[the_logos at www.achaea.com]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Vincent Archer wrote:

> According to the_logos at www.achaea.com:
 
>> 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.
 
> You always take things with you. At least OOC knowledge.
 
> But saying "start from scratch" is a tough sell. A very tough
> one. The challenge then is not retaining players who suffered thru
> PD, it's attracting them in the first place.

I'm not arguing that it's a tough sell. I'm just saying that if you
take anything with you that gives you an advantage over an entirely
new player, ICly, then you don't have permadeath in my opinion. It's a
big fat obvious line to me.

--matt

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