On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, dave mquackquadart wrote: > My slogan is 'By me for people who want to play it'. I haven't got this > half-baked bullshit elite'est mentality. If you can make a job easier for Okay, I will admit my response was slightly elitist, but I wasn't really meaning to be. "By me for people who want to play it" is a good attitude to have - I respect it. However, think of it this way. Joe Soap decides to create a mud. He downloads a circlemud with patches, compiles it, and runs it. He hasn't got any original ideas of his own, or if he does, they are relatively minor. Okay - so what, if his mud isn't any good people wont play it. Now though, another 50 Joe Soaps come along and do the exact same thing. Suddenly there's a lot of muds out there that are, and most of them are nearly the same. The CircleMUD genre gets a reputation of being full of stockmuds. That can't be good for the community. Now, I'm not saying this about you - I have no reason to believe that you do not have great original ideas for your mud. I'm talking about some people who obviously do *not* have original ideas and are just using a stockmud. So thats my point - has CircleMUD become so easy that it is a detriment to the *community*? > hard, and likewise I never thought it was bad to make things easy. If you > don't like the abundance of stock muds with the fresh new patches, choose > not to play them, and choose not to whine about them. Its not that simple. If those stock muds are affecting the reputation of the CircleMUD community as a whole, or affecting how people see my mud in particular, then it has become a problem. But this is what I want to discuss - *has* it become a problem? If it has, why exactly has it? And if you don't think its a problem, maybe you can try to explain our contrasting opinions? -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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