More on levels, was Re: [MUD-Dev] What is an RPG?

[rick cronan]

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 01:15, Mike Rozak wrote:

>> Furthermore, being able to compare with other characters *across*
>> classes / professions is important to players.  The player of a
>> 15th

> This is true in a combat-oriented game, which MMORPGs currently
> are.  However, in a game where crafting is possible and
> encouraged, an 8th level fighter is not comparable to an 8th level
> basket weaver. It's apples and oranges. Indicating that a quest is
> for 10th-15th level characters also falls apart when basket
> weavers are added.

Fair point.  Levels, as has been pointed out, hark back to the days
of D&D and its ilk, where they were a generalised metric of the
'adventure-worthiness' of a character.  If a character simply isn't
adventure-worthy, then I guess they would stay at 1st level, despite
being the king of the basket-making world.

At that point there simply aren't any ways of summing up the value
of two characters that have drastically different aims and goals,
any more than in the real world.  I'd find it hard to say who was
'better', the Pope or Michael Schumacher.

- rick
_______________________________________________
MUD-Dev mailing list
MUD-Dev at kanga.nu
https://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev