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Responding to the two points above: - It sounds like most people in the zone wanted to fight, they just didn't want people to use the professor's specific tact

Responding to the two points above: - It sounds like most people in the zone wanted to fight, they just didn't want people to use the professor's specific tactics, which is eminently reasonable, since the professor's tactics were so powerful as to make fighting no fun. - The game designers do not make the rules in a multiplayer game. They provide an environment, and they might have rules in mind when they do it, but the players make the rules and define their own limits and conditions for victory and defeat. To say that you're playing "by the rules" because what you're doing is possible in the game is absurd. It's akin to beating people up on the street and insisting that you're not doing anything wrong since you aren't breaking the laws of physics, and God has not struck you down with lightning. In both instances, you will suffer the consequences for your antisocial actions.

carbon8 17y ago
"The game designers do not make the rules in a multiplayer game." Wha? Of course they do. All video games (including MMORPGs) are highly controlled environments and good game designers account for different playing styles.
- winthrowe 17y ago
  The game designers write the laws of physics, the players write the Code of Hammurabi. I think a great example of this comes from Eve-Online: There are no friendly fire restrictions, but people generally agree that shooting your teammate is a bad thing, so it's not generally done. However there are some corporations that have a different culture, and your ship is destroyed by your commander to set an example to keep the fleet in line. This is one of the main reasons I find Eve interesting; The single shard sandbox style brings out a much more interesting social dynamic. The only game I know of that has a daily updated map of player territories, here's a time lapse of almost 2 years of player warefare, ending with the destruction of one of the in game superpowers, in 59sec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MuyMlT9hY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MuyMlT9hY

carbon8 17y ago

"The game designers do not make the rules in a multiplayer game." Wha? Of course they do. All video games (including MMORPGs) are highly controlled environments and good game designers account for different playing styles.

winthrowe 17y ago
The game designers write the laws of physics, the players write the Code of Hammurabi. I think a great example of this comes from Eve-Online: There are no friendly fire restrictions, but people generally agree that shooting your teammate is a bad thing, so it's not generally done. However there are some corporations that have a different culture, and your ship is destroyed by your commander to set an example to keep the fleet in line. This is one of the main reasons I find Eve interesting; The single shard sandbox style brings out a much more interesting social dynamic. The only game I know of that has a daily updated map of player territories, here's a time lapse of almost 2 years of player warefare, ending with the destruction of one of the in game superpowers, in 59sec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MuyMlT9hY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8MuyMlT9hY