On Thu, Dec 16/99, kim@... wrote:

> From: kim@...
>
> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 jhenders@... wrote:
> > >
> > > Think for a moment. If CT *really* had a death touch, what
> > > would he do the moment he discovered mortals were messing
> > > around in his realm? DT all of them. Isn't that what *you'd*
> > > do if you were playing CT? If you want a balanced (i.e. fun)
> > > game, you can't go willy nilly giving mobs all sorts of
> > > super-powers.
> >
> > Unless you lack the imagination to do anything better.
>
> My point was, if you were playing Cazic and had this power,
> would you ever die?
>
> If not, and a mob with this power can be killed, then what's
> the point of giving him this power? All it's done is made him
> more difficult to kill. Well, there are lots of ways to make
> mobs more difficult to kill without resorting to random
> insta-death.
>
> You folks are trying to justify the DT saying that he's a god
> and should have it. That's fine and good, but if he doesn't
> use it like a being of super-intelligence, then I don't see it
> being much different than death by router crash - i.e. it gets
> applied more or less randomly and without reason. You can't
> justify either being necessary for the game IMHO.

I don't know why you picked my message to tack this replay onto, I'm
agreeing with you. The lack of imagination I'm referring to here is not
you but the game designer's.

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