NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/fan/pern/2634

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From: [e-mail] (Jonobie Baker)
Subject: Re: MU* keeness (may be long)
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Bob Green) writes:
|> In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Keith Hearn) writes:
|> |>
|> |> [e-mail] (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 ;-)
    Yeah, but then the male/female ratio would be to far the other way...
balance is preferable to either...Not to mention that some would just keep
creating characters over and over to see if they could get this ability...

|>
|> |>
|> |>   A'lon
|> |>   Bronze Zienth's rider
|> |>   High Reaches Weyrleader
|> |>   PernMUSH
|> |>
|> |> --
|>
|> Anjilon
|> Craftless ;-(
|> PernMUSH
|>
|> --
|> | Bob Green          Inmos Ltd, Bristol       [e-mail]
|> |                                         or  [e-mail]
|> |The opinions above are the rantings of a madman and therefore could
|> |not possibly reflect Inmos policy.

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