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Old 08-01-2008, 12:14 AM   #60
Fiendish
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Re: Triggers, scripts, and bots

You still don't get it.
There is just the simple fact that many people desire a bot-free environment. Those people choose to play on MUDs that cater to those desires. Other people may choose to play on MUDs that cater to different desires. If you don't like playing Monopoly, you don't write angry letters to Milton Bradley demanding that they change the rules for you. You find a different game to play that you do like or you make up your own rules in the privacy of your own home where all parties involved can agree to the rule changes. But you don't go to the national Monopoly championships and yell at them because they're stupid idiots who obviously don't know anything about anything. Because that makes you the idiot for not understanding the simple fact that not everyone wants what you want. If Monopoly were the only board game in the world, and use of the game with different rules had an affect on the experience of other players not affiliated with you, then you might ask Milton Bradley politely to make concessions for you in the next version. But it isn't. There are thousands of board games with all sorts of different aspects, just like there are thousands of MUDs all with different aspects. You pick the one that you like and you play it.
Want to play baseball with a metal bat instead of a wooden one? Ok, go play. But you can't be part of MLB, because that's a rule that everyone in the league has agreed to. Don't like that? Go play in a different league with other like-minded individuals.
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