[MUD-Dev] Cheating in the world

[Matt Mihaly]

Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> "Matt Mihaly" <matt at ironrealms.com> writes:

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

> Mm... Fortunately Head Admin doesn't cut in. :-)

Well, I agree with you, but most of those people praying to the Head
Admin fervently believe he/she/it does cut in.

> The same people also believe in the Evil powers in the world that
> try to ruin your life... So there you go... Yes, you can have the
> one without the other, but I am not sure if the analogy is a good
> one either way.

Nod, fair enough. I'm not sure it is either.

>> 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).

> But, doesn't that just make the negotiation of the enforcement of
> the PK rules a game to play with OOC connotations?

Everything you do in a virtual world has OOC connotations. It's
impossible to escape given that input is flowing in from an OOC
source and output is flowing out to an OOC source. Real, OOC people
are affected by nearly everything you do in one, even if that real,
ooc person is yourself.


>> 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.

> The overall implications of hardcore roleplaying admins in a RP
> environment is a bit difficult to assess for me. It is a different
> aesthetical ideal, and I can of course never prove that it will
> have a negative affect on the experienced world in general.

> However, for many MUDs the admin presence seems to be more an
> issue of either covering up deficiencies in the design or just a
> desire for personal power ;-).

That may be the case, but that's just the designs they are
using. It's not a result of anything fundamental about admin
presence.

--matt
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