[MUD-Dev] Cheating in the world

[Matt Mihaly]

Ola Fosheim Gr=F8stad wrote:

> What you do have in MUDs are bugs and flawed designs.  Whenever a
> player has to appeal to admin power the world has failed.

I wonder if Christians/Jews/Hindus/Muslims feel that praying to
their Head Admin means the world has failed?

> The gameability of admin presence have been discussed extensively
> on mud-dev before. I hope this won't evolve into a discussion on
> admins, to me it is obvious that MUDs should be admin free.

Not to me it doesn't. In fact, quite the opposite. AI is
pathetically incompetent and could never accomplish many of the
things admins can.  For instance, soft enforcement of PK rules
(which all of our games use).  Further, what about admins that are
disguised with a role? All our admins play in-role Gods (God of
Justice, God of Pancakes and Syrup, whatever), for instance.

--matt
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