[MUD-Dev] On grouping, thoughts

[Douglas Goodall]

Jeff Freeman wrote:

> There is a basic assumption that newbies ­ true newbies ­ login to
> the game world for the first time /and they don't have any
> friends/.

I think there's an equal assumption that experienced players tend to
move with their friends. However, players like myself who have been
playing on-line games as long as a mere decade can find friends in
almost any game. The on-line gaming community is always getting
larger, but the internal links are increasing as well. I've run into
alot of old friends in WoW, even though I didn't go to a particular
server with a pre-planned group of friends. Since I can find (old
and new) friends in any game, I'm less tied to particular games or
to a single "group" of friends.

One thing I would find very useful, if there was some way to ensure
it's accuracy, is a "directory" of avatars--the games they used to
play and where they are playing now. That way, if I wanted to find a
particular friend or group of friends on-line, I could do so more
easily than running into them by accident. The scary thing is that I
probably run into people I've played with alot more often, but
simply don't recognize them. It's only through chance conversation
that I recognize many old friends. Someone makes an obscure joke
about, say, AberMUD and through the following conversation I realize
that I'm playing with someone I first "met" over 10 years ago...
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