What if we were PG13?

[Akaramu]

I think the chinese prisoner in my example above would disagree that 'harmony sucks'. I realize you probably meant something different, but I'm just mentioning it as food for thought.

If all of us went through what millions of RL people endure every day, we'd happily play Smurfmud. And the only ones playing out detailed torture scenes in games would be VNPCs.

[sarahjc]

No, it would take away all the grit that we love so much.

[Larrath]

I don't think that's true.

The truth is that if Armageddon became a perfectly harmonic place where everyone are friends, every single character would become disgustingly powerful.
Think about how much easier hunting with your ranger is going to be when there's a maxed magicker of some kind that's giving you positive spells.


If you put together three maxed magickers and a couple of maxed warriors, rangers and a burglar, I doubt there's going to be very much that could possibly stand in your way for long.  The whole MUD will become based on dungeon crawls and mantis invasions.
A friendly, all-cooperative Arm will be pretty crappy.  The code is awesome and the mechanics are great, but it just won't work.

[Ghost]

Since we are all psychos loving the life in a harsh world..

        ......  I guess it suits psycho's like us better, to keep it the way it already is.

[jhunter]

Heheh, it would be funny to see what happened if a bunch of Arm players went to another mud like SmurfMUD and started playing as if it was Arm. I'm sure bannings would ensue, but it'd be kinda funny. (Not a serious idea.)

[Larrath]

I tried that once.  It didn't go very well.

[Blackfire]

I think what I meant to ask was "What if we were rated R, and no x-rated material was allowed?"  Basically, what I intended was, what if blatently pornographic or super graphic violence wasn't allowed, but all your regular violence, sexuality, and shit talking remained as it usually is.  Not going to start a new poll for that... but do people think they'd react to that change the same way?

[Larrath]

If Arm was made so that everything that would normally require consent (except actions indicative of rape, such as leaping on someone from behind) were always faded, I wouldn't really care.

I don't really mudsex all that much or even care too much about it.  I also trust myself and my fellow mudders to be able to imagine what "emote carves %guy finger off with a bone knife" would feel like without having to describe just how painful and bloody that would be.