> At 07:15 PM 6/6/00 +0000, Reece, Tom CPT- 25IDL G4 wrote:
> >But that would violate The Vision(tm). Abashi has said all alone that
> >players who devote more time to the game are the ones most entitled to

reap

> >the rewards. Casual gamers be damned.
>
> there's nothing wrong with that. do you disagree with the statement that
> if you spend more time in the game you should have better items and attain
> higher levels? True casual gamers aren't concerned that much with items
> and levels. the only people upset by this statement are the power gamers
> who don't have time to put into the game.

Uhh that's not true at all. Casual gamers are generally still interested in
being able to participate in quests and adventures to attain neat or unique
items. I would hazard that most "Casual" gamers would even like to some day
reach high levels. Even Role Players like to reach high levels.

All players should be able to participate in events. The problem that I
have with most GM event's isn't that they are "Stupid", however, it's that
unless the GM's get very "evil" and start punting players who interfere
there is no way for a dynamic event to keep the 50's from ruining the fun of
low level events.

I was a Guide and I can tell you that MANY of the events are actually aimed
at those around level 15 to 35 or so. The problem is that whenever one of
those events kicks off the 50's waltz in and blast the actors to smitherines
because they think it may have neat stuff. Which ruins the event for the
players.

Let me rephrase that:
It's not the GM's fault that the PLAYERS can't respect events enough not to
ruin it for themselves.

Lyrnia