Posted by Joshu on September 13, 1999 at 17:22:46:
In Reply to: A response. Or a rant. Take your pick. posted by SphereMaker on September 13, 1999 at 04:01:05:
If I were to test a new class I would do two things:
first I would let Gareth, Nepenthe, Guerric, Challen and whoever else, try out tactics against different classes on the test mud. Have some sparring matches, testing their abilites against other different classes. That should work out the most obvious things.
secondly I would do what's been done here, allow everyone to play the conjurers.
Letting everyone play a conjurer was the right decision, that way everyone has a chance to learn how they work, what their weaknesses are, how a smart conjurer operates, what their abilities are, etc.
I've personally reported two exploitable bugs in the last month, so I do not think that critique is appropriate to put on me.
As to why it's never felt like a partnership, I personally blame the imms. Sometimes you get the impression that you guys feel it's you against the players, and that the players are always trying to angle things, exploit every bug etc. And I guess the problem being, that there always will be some players who behave that way.
>There's maybe a handful of players that
Again, I'm not bitching about conjurers being overpowered. I'm playing one myself.
I cannot understand what would be gained by letting people who've repeatedly shown that the single thing that interest them on this mud is seeing how high a PK-ratio they can get.
>Ideally the players and the implementers
>make some sort of team in which we all try
>to make this a better game in some way.
> Why has it really NEVER felt that way?
>There's maybe a handful of players that are
>interested in pointing out things we need
> to fix in a respectful way"
> aren't interested in bitching about every
> single thing that is implemented on the
>MUD. Is it really that hard to believe that
> we created this thing because we cared
> about making a quality game? Do you really
> think we're trying to inflate our own egos
> by implementing new things? If so, why
> play here? Really. Why?
-Joshu