[Jazuela]

A *non* MUSH-style game would certainly not rely on the players to determine if a wall is scaleable. That would be up to the people who created the game. If a king's crown isn't coded in, but the king is an NPC, and a player wanted to steal the guy's crown, and it was assumed he had one - then a request to the mud-creators is appropriate. If the king is a PC, then that scenario would be moot, because the king doesn't HAVE a crown to steal, and there's no need to ask the king's player if you can steal it.

If in a game where such things are coded, there's a door to a treasure room, and it isn't guarded by NPCs or PCs, and the room description doesn't imply that it's guarded, then you can be assured that - it isn't guarded. Now, it might be trapped - but you have no reason to know whether it is or not. You'll have to find out by picking the lock or bashing the door in, won't you? So why would you, the player, need to know? And why would the guy who playes the owner the treasure room need to know you're trying to get in? If it was trapped, then it's already trapped. You don't need to tell the guy to go ahead and put that trap on the lock so it can injure your character. If it isn't trapped, then there's no need for the OOC conversation in the first place.

MUSHes work totally differently, and their "family" of text games. Games that rely on emotes/poses for all movement of the game world are of course more reliant on player cooperation.

But games that have coded doors, coded crowns, actual items, mobs, damage, healing, etc...are not reliant on player cooperation and there's no need to share your intentions - unless as I said previously, there's a matter of consent for rape/torture (not that the torturer has permission to torture someone, but rather whether or not he has permission to act the torture out. The "scene fades to black" is a common OOC construct to allow something to take place, without anyone having to read the details on the monitor).