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DonathinFrye · 01-08-2006, 05:04 PM

There is strong reason to do it - it would increase player awareness when they are scanning through. Some players may see the commercial or P4P color and think, "Oh, this MUD is probably held to a higher standard than most other 100% free MUDs". Some might see it and say, "I don't want to compete with people in a game where credits can be bought with cash." Either way, the players deserve to know as much as possible about the MUDs they are looking at on a -resource website-.

Whether or not IRE is clear in the first five minutes of its system(and I disagree that it is), we have to ask the question; are we protecting IRE? Is that the purpose of TMS? Or is the purpose to be as informative and helpful to players as absolutely possible. It seems that all of these debates, at the core, come down to this. If TMS is meant to be as helpful to players as possible, then it's obvious what should be done. If it's meant to protect IRE's interests - than that should be public knowledge as well.

01-08-2006, 05:04 PM	#237
DonathinFrye Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Name: Donathin Frye Location: Columbus, OH Home MUD: Optional Realities Home MUD: Atonement RPI Home MUD: Project Redshift Posts: 510	There is strong reason to do it - it would increase player awareness when they are scanning through. Some players may see the commercial or P4P color and think, "Oh, this MUD is probably held to a higher standard than most other 100% free MUDs". Some might see it and say, "I don't want to compete with people in a game where credits can be bought with cash." Either way, the players deserve to know as much as possible about the MUDs they are looking at on a -resource website-. Whether or not IRE is clear in the first five minutes of its system(and I disagree that it is), we have to ask the question; are we protecting IRE? Is that the purpose of TMS? Or is the purpose to be as informative and helpful to players as absolutely possible. It seems that all of these debates, at the core, come down to this. If TMS is meant to be as helpful to players as possible, then it's obvious what should be done. If it's meant to protect IRE's interests - than that should be public knowledge as well.