someone's fucked up MMOG wishlist

[Leisher]

People don't want challenge

Like real life these days.

[GORDON]

Which leads to our second invention.... feeding tubes with 180-day nutrient supplies.

[Malcolm]

I know that they've proven monkeys will pick crack over food, but even human crackheads eat.

In the same vein, there's some people that won't commit passive suicide by pissing away their lives pressing a button. Quite frankly, it'd feel very strange to me to be happy all the time. I doubt I could handle it. But, quite a few suckers would get addicted to it.

[GORDON]

We'd probably have to make a huge underground network to jack people up, on the down-low. The government doesn't like peeps horning in on their "control the population" rackets, unless you have really good* lobbyists.

*free with the cash and hookers



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[TPRJones]

There's got to be a good middle ground. Some way for PKs to do their thing, but also have to dodge some harsh consequences.

Is there some way to simulate forensics, police, jury trials, and all that? Force the PKs to be smart about how they do the crime or end up being penalized for it. Probably a silly idea, I guess...

[Malcolm]

I suppose if you hired people to kill the PKs, then you could get cops. Controlling the behaviour of others is a full-time job. & as such necessarily requires getting to people at weak points. Vulnerability in reality is not vulnerability online. I can't sneak into k3w1d00dZ's four-story tower when he's sleeping at night & slit his throat or arrest him.

[TPRJones]

Well, hiring cops isn't hard, that's just a questing system. With good enough rewards, some skilled players will take on the job.

[Malcolm]

Well, hiring cops isn't hard, that's just a questing system. With good enough rewards, some skilled players will take on the job.

Ah, so you propose to hire a mercenary army? Such a Carthaginian solution. Hope they never bitch about their pay. If they do, they'll just turn rogue & start killing for items.



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[TheCatt]

So... when do we hook all the humans up and generate power from them?

[Malcolm]

When it becomes financially viable. Then we can put all those life w\o parole prisoners to use.



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[TPRJones]

Ah, so you propose to hire a mercenary army? Such a Carthaginian solution. Hope they never bitch about their pay. If they do, they'll just turn rogue & start killing for items.

You assume they aren't already playing both sides from the beginning.

Actually, I was thinking more of a bounty hunting system of some sort.

[Malcolm]

Bounties? Unless you make the penalty for death severe, it'll go along these lines ...

1) Get your bounty up to an astronomical number
2) Have your buddies kill you
3) Collect cash
4) Goto line 1

[thibodeaux]

Give people an arena or battle area where they can "free battle" without consequences, but make the rest of the game vulnerable.

EQ had (has?) that. It was actually called "the Arena."

[Malcolm]

EQ had (has?) that. It was actually called "the Arena."

Precisely. The debate of whether the mass market prefers PvM or PvP was settled long ago. Right around the time EQ overtook UO in volume.

[Cakedaddy]

By the time EQ overtook UO, pretty much all PvP had been removed from UO.

[Malcolm]

By the time EQ overtook UO, pretty much all PvP had been removed from UO.

Partly, I would argue, in response to the growing account volume EQ was boasting.

[Paul]

I've got another one for the list:

The game makers should design and produce an anatomically correct body suit that allows the player to feel all the sensations that a player in the game would feel. They can feel the grass under their feet, the wind in their hair, and a slight pangs of pain where they wounded.
Also, um, maybe, uh, the characters should be capable of having sex?

[TPRJones]

Unless you make the penalty for death severe...

Well, yeah, the theory is that the bounty collection is to put the character on trial for crimes of theft and whatnot. So the penalty would be restitution; maybe have the system take all their gold from the bank and split it among their known victims on a pro-rated basis. If you want to go all the way, have it return items still in their possession to whomever they were looted from, and maybe even sell off everything else to help with the restitution.

Get caught by the authorities, and your bank gets cleaned out, basically. Would that be severe enough?

[Malcolm]

Get caught by the authorities, and your bank gets cleaned out, basically. Would that be severe enough?

Only if you can assure that they gotta keep their shit in a bank & not in some player-owned housing somewhere.

[TheCatt]

So... the super rich could grief less rich by just placing bounties for no reason, wiping out their gold whenever they wanted? Say, trading bounties with a few other friends so money just revolves?