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appelsienThu 18-Nov-04 03:29 AM
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#27, "Staff controlled quests?"


          

I recently noticed that you added some basic information about the MUD on the 'UCMM Detailed View' pages of the website www.mudworld.org. There was one thing I found a bit odd about the info that you provided them with - you listed 'questing' as being 'staff controlled'.

As a player who has always enjoyed doing the various automated quests that can be found across CF's virtual landscape, this struck me as quite odd indeed. Wouldn't it be more accurate to state that questing on CF is automated, as well as staff controlled depending on what the size and impact of the quest is?


  
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ValguarneraThu 18-Nov-04 08:37 AM
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#28, "That was the closest option."
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"Automated" wasn't on the list. "Staff-controlled" is meant to differentiate it from systems where players can basically walk up to a (usually OOC) staff member and say "I want a quest now", and they pick one off a list.

Needless to say, those systems get labor-intensive very quickly, and would be very difficult on a MUD as large as ours. The one I've played that had a system like that basically came down to "Uh, fetch me X and get a Quest Point.", and I got the impression from other players that pretty much all the quests were of that format.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

  
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