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<b>Message ID:</b> 16249 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Thu Mar 16 14:41:48 GMT 2000 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Sylly Songsynger <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Worldly Issues & &quot;Play Nice&quot; <br/>
<br/><br/>
<div id="ygrps-yiv-1366031445">Here are 2 articles that deal with &quot;online worlds&quot; worth reading (well<br/>
skimming at least - first one is ok, but second one is very long)<br/>
<br/>
Basic premise of game mechanics:<br/>
<br/>
Jonathan Baron&#39;s article entitled, &quot;Glory and Shame&quot;, which may be found at<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991110/Baron_01.htm.">http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19991110/Baron_01.htm.</a><br/>
<br/>
For &quot;politcs&quot; and community issues within a world:<br/>
<br/>
Check out <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000309/mihaly_01.htm">http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000309/mihaly_01.htm</a><br/>
<br/>
With Verant deciding they want to go &#39;hands-on&quot; with their &quot;Play Nice&quot;<br/>
policy, these have some merit reading.<br/>
<br/>
Play Nice is doomed to fail.  The number of issues that will come up for<br/>
resolution is so much greater than the resources that Verant has allocated<br/>
to handling them (ie not enough Guides to handle all of the whiners that<br/>
will surface.)  Verant should have stuck to the mechanics of computers that<br/>
gives them power: program code.  If a program lets the user do something,<br/>
some user (or many users) will do that thing. If Verant wanted to stop<br/>
KS&#39;ing, they should have done it in code.  That way they stop each and every<br/>
instance and rules get applied to everyone.<br/>
<br/>
Sylly</div>