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Fifi · 05-01-2008, 10:10 PM

On another thread someone said, they felt that they could invest a great many hours in character development only to lose their pc.

Someone else mentioned (or I understood them to mention) that players who play permadeath muds were less attached to each individual pc.

My experience, and I think that of the people I mud with, on role play muds with permadeath, is that you do invest. You can spend thousands of hours crafting a life for a pc, making them a part of a world, making friends and enimes and plans and a life. And you get to a point where you think you have enough power, social or political or physical power that maybe your pc will escape random death. You can cheat it. Your pc will die of old age. And then wham. And it's awful. You never want to play again. You want to take it back. And you can't. They're gone. It's not sad. It's TRAGIC.
And that's the lure.
(Yes, this post was subjective and tangential)

05-01-2008, 10:10 PM	#122
Fifi Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 227	Re: How many muds have permadeath? On another thread someone said, they felt that they could invest a great many hours in character development only to lose their pc. Someone else mentioned (or I understood them to mention) that players who play permadeath muds were less attached to each individual pc. My experience, and I think that of the people I mud with, on role play muds with permadeath, is that you do invest. You can spend thousands of hours crafting a life for a pc, making them a part of a world, making friends and enimes and plans and a life. And you get to a point where you think you have enough power, social or political or physical power that maybe your pc will escape random death. You can cheat it. Your pc will die of old age. And then wham. And it's awful. You never want to play again. You want to take it back. And you can't. They're gone. It's not sad. It's TRAGIC. And that's the lure. (Yes, this post was subjective and tangential)