[MUD-Dev] Geometric content generation

[Nathan F. Yospe]

Travis Nixon <tnixon at avalanchesoftware.com> said:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan F. Yospe" <yospe at kanga.nu>
 
>> Demosthenes and Locke.  I've played around with the idea of using
>> script controlled, admin tweaked mobs to influence social
>> development while the mud culture is developing, to try to create
>> a social pressure model.  If enough people are muttering about
>> certain behaviour, and they are making the PCs all mutter too, it
>> may have an effect on such behaviour.  Maybe.

>> Now, I leave IDing the ref at the begining of the above paragraph
>> to the reader...

> Oh come on.  That's an easy one.  Ender's Game.  (er, actually,
> did they show up in the first one?  I don't rember.  lol)

Yeah, they do show up in the first one.  Rare Peter and Valentine
scenes...

> All it would take to blow the whole scheme wide open would be
> exposure, though.  Just as in the books. :(

I'm trying to figure out if that's actually true.  If who wasn't a
real player could be hidden well enough (as in, I don't know a
player, so are they a stranger or a mob or some admin controlled
puppet, or ...) and the pressure could be kept less than blatant
(shopkeepers and bar patrons making comments, say) it might work
even if exposed...

--
Nathan F. Yospe - Physicist, Artist, Programmer, Writer, JOAT with a SAK


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