[Detah]

I do not really have a strong position on the question of how a mud owner determines his/her own Payment model nomenclature. I also do not have a strong position on how these categories are named. Most of the proposed categories all seem reasonable to me. I do have a strong position on the way the mud search engine lets players do searches. When I was just a player (and not an admin) I did not want to play on muds which were "Pay Muds" in the strictest sense (eg. registration fee to login); I was a poor college student after all. So when I did searches on mudlists, I wanted to search thru all muds which were not strictly "Pay Muds". I did not care if there were optional donations, pay for perks, donations with perks or whatever. The current search engine design would force me to do X-1 searches (where X is the total number of choices in the payment models dropdown menu) to find all the muds that I would play on. So I am in favor of making it CHECKBOXES (yes, I mean checkboxes) for the searches. The mud admin should probably be required to select only one type for their mud; but as for the player's searches, I think they should have the freedom to generate their searches however they wish. Google lets me do searches for 'final fantasy -movie'. That is, a search for "final fantasy", but NOT including the word "movie". I think this CHECKBOX approach would allow the same functionality for the mud search engine. Incidentally my suggestion may also alleviate some of the apprehension by the "100% free" and "100% pay" camp folks, who might get excluded from searches that the new player intended. Isn't that the goal? To search for what the player intends?

I have the same criticism for the PK dropdown menu. Please let me select "No PK" AND "Restricted PK". It saves me tons of time doing searches.



EDIT: changed 'Its' to 'Isn't' in second to last sentence of first paragraph.