[MUD-Dev] Star Wars Galaxies: 1 character per server

[Michael Tresca]

Marc Fielding posted on Monday, December 16, 2002 3:38 PM

> Actually, with the new-account requirement, you're actually *more*
> likely to see this scenario than before. Now that players need new
> accounts for each character on a server, they're more apt to think
> "Why not bring them in the game at the same time? I'm paying a
> full fee for each of them!"

> Be careful what you wish for. ;)

Uh, what?

No seriously, what?

What are you talking about?  As Rayzam already pointed out, we have
a similar rule on RetroMUD.  We have a time and place for metagame
content, we recognize that a viable community is critical (even if
it's talking about non-game stuff) and thus provided an appropriate
channel for it.  If you talk about non-game stuff, it goes there --
the playerbase knows this and instructs people to "move it to chat."

I don't understand why paying for more characters would make one
want to bring them on at the same time.  Barring the fact that
there's a lot of complexities in keeping both characters active
simultaneously, I'm aware that Raph's comments against muling will
not stop muling.  That's not the point.

The point is that muling is not appropriate to Star Wars.  It's
metagaming.  It shouldn't happen.  It will happen -- but it will NOT
be encouraged or ignored.  This helps create a filter for players
who are not all about squeezing every ounce of blood out of every
character to win some inane race (against themselves, presumably) to
be uber-powerful.  A bunch of folks said they wouldn't play Star
Wars now that they know they can't have mules.  Thank god -- I don't
want to play on any game where someone is so attached to the ability
to mule that they wouldn't play a MMORPG because they could metagame
that way.

Lost accounts and income?  Sure.  Longer term viability by creating
a playerbase who wants to play Star Wars as opposed to abuse the
Star Wars universe?

Priceless.

Mike "Talien" Tresca
RetroMUD Administrator
http://www.retromud.org/talien



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