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Message ID: 11957
Date: Thu Dec 16 20:35:41 GMT 1999
Author: Perhaps a Princess...
Subject: RE: PoF pulling
>-----Original Message-----
>From: kim@... [mailto:kim@...]
>Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 12:07 PM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] PoF pulling
>
>
>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.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
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