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- From: bob@eagle.inmos.co.uk (Bob Green)
- Subject: Re: MU* keeness
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.154930.4895@titan.inmos.co.uk>
- Sender: bob@eagle (Bob Green)
- Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
- References: <1jl3ugINNhja@gossip.pyramid.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:49:30 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In article <1jl3ugINNhja@gossip.pyramid.com>, khearn@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Keith Hearn) writes:
- |>
- |> alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy) writes:
- |> >I have to agree with A'lon on this matter. What rankles me (who plays a
- |> >non-rider on PernMUSH) is how did ONE character get chosen for this? And
- |> >since she's established (I'm presuming), how did her `keeness' not appear
- |> >before now?
- |> >
- |> >Tariana
- |> >Headwoman
- |> >Fort Weyr
- |> >PernMUSH
- |>
- |> To the best of my knowledge, the person chose herself, w/o wiz or Weyr
- |> permission. There are currently no persons on PernMUSH who can hear
- |> all dragons, largely for this reason. How would the wiz/weyr councils
- |> decide on who would be allowed to do it? It'd create a bigger uproar
- |> that picking a new wizard. Everyone would be screaming 'Why that
- |> person and not *me*?!?!'.
- |>
- |> I doubt there will be a person on PernMUSH who will be allowed to hear
- |> dragons for quite some time. I don't object to there being someone,
- |> but I do object to just letting anyone who wants to do so, declaring
- |> that they can hear dragons, and I don't *even* want to think about
- |> trying to pick a person to run such a character. I don't want to
- |> deal with the backlash such a decision would create.
- |>
- |> The only way I can see a person being allowed to do it, is if they are
- |> a good roleplayer who has proven their ability for a while, and if
- |> they started up a new character to do it, since, as Tariana points
- |> out, 'keenness' isn't likely to just pop up. This still leaves the
- |> issue of picking the player to do it, w/o upsetting the rest of the
- |> players.
-
- Could the server do it ? Every time a new player is created, give them a 1 in
- 10 million chance (or thereabouts) of being able to hear all dragons ? I suppose
- it should oly do this for people registering themselves as female, since earlier
- threads decided that it was sex-linked (I think). It'd also have the side effect
- (maybe) of altering the male/female ratio of players in a way I'd approve of ;-)
-
- |>
- |> A'lon
- |> Bronze Zienth's rider
- |> High Reaches Weyrleader
- |> PernMUSH
- |>
- |> --
-
- Anjilon
- Craftless ;-(
- PernMUSH
-
- --
- | Bob Green Inmos Ltd, Bristol bob@inmos.co.uk
- | or bob@inmos.com
- |The opinions above are the rantings of a madman and therefore could
- |not possibly reflect Inmos policy.
-