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Old 03-30-2008, 09:26 PM   #101
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Re: Guidelines for an RPI mud.

Who cares if you think you coined the term. Who cares if you feel "demeaned." You sure as hell don't care about demeaning others, do you? Get over yourself.

You didn't coin the term MUD, you lack many of the core features of MUD, and yet you keep calling yourself RPI MUDs. But that doesn't seem to be a problem for you.

And frankly, some of the "features" RPI muds have are not, in my view and the view of many, intensive at all. Standing in a corner typing a command over and over to skill up is not "intensive" by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe you should use RSI MUD as an identifier.

And RPIs lack or completely ignore many "intensive" features that are standard on other MUDs, MUSHes, and MUCKs that call themselves "intensive." Many RPI features strike me as arbitrary and in some cases very unrealistic. But more power to you. Choose whatever features you want. But don't claim they are objectively better, more realistic, or more "intensive." That's where you go completely off the deep end and fail.

You have a set of features you like. They are not objectively better or more intensive than someone else's set of preferred features. So stop acting like they are, pick a specific term to categorize them, or STOP COMPLAINING when someone else calls their mud Role Play Intensive. You have a lot of choices available to you. Choose one of them and stop demanding that every other person and MUD in the universe obeys your every whim.
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