[MUD-Dev] SW:G

[Marian Griffith]

In <URL:/archives/meow?group+local.muddev> on Tue 09 Sep, Matt Mihaly wrote:
> Amanda Walker writes:

>> Luckily, I like to talk, so I set up macros to do the boring part
>> and spent 6 weeks of casual but regular gameplay running those
>> and otherwise treating the game as a chat room.  Would I have
>> taken a less predictable path if it were available?  You bet.
>> Unfortunately, this particular reward (in-game performance
>> options) are given solely based on odometer reading.  If there's
>> a desirable goal with only one path to it, that path is going to
>> become very well trodden by people interested in that goal.  On
>> the flip side, of course, is that if there are alternate paths,
>> the achievers will figure out (and post web walkthroughs of) the
>> least-effort path.

> So here's a question then: Why are you playing SW:G at all? You
> can get a chat room elsewhere, in a myriad of forms, for free. I
> don't know what the range of things you're interested in is but
> all you mentioned was liking the music stuff. At the same time,
> you said you found the music stuff so boring that you triggered it
> and just chatted. Why not just go to a free medium like a text mud
> or even an IRC channel if you want to chat? There MUST be
> something about SW:G that is making you continue to fork over
> $15/month. Are you just a huge fan of the Star Wars license or are
> there other game systems you didn't mention that you are into?

This really shows where the 'achiever' mindset and the 'socialiser'
mindset fail to meet :)

Why pay  15 dollars per month  when you can play counterstrike  for
free? Or go to any of the free ultima servers? The point that often
is missed  is that for players chosing to specialise in entertainer
on SW:G the advancement is not really important, it just means that
more tricks become available, but for the most part their fun is in
roleplaying with and entertaining other players.  The game mandates
a certain amount of downtime to heal various wounds,  and the theme
mandates  that they spend some of that time in seedy bars and other
similar places. The entertainers, while mandated by the theme, make
sure that the downtime is minimised for those who want to go out to
destroy some more pixels as quickly as possible, while the rest can
have a marginally good time chatting with somebody who is there for
that purpose. It is not chatting but roleplaying (and that also ex-
plains why the entertainers are so incensed about the macro singers
or dancers who get in the way,  spam everybody  and are seen as not
to entertain the guests)


Marian
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out of all the seeking, I have found you, young sister of
my heart! You are mine and I am yours - and never again
will there be loneliness ...

Rolan Choosing Talia,
Arrows of the Queen, by Mercedes Lackey
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