you can do a lot with lord.

Indeed!

I think the thing that's missing at present is what a good LORD setup with only good IGMs looks like. It reminds me of that scene in Borat where he's at the supermarket with all the different kinds of cheese...that's the world of LORD IGMs. So many of them are shit, and so many of them break core game mechanics. I'd love to find an installation of LORD that expands on the core game mechanics in the most fun and fair ways to keep the game interesting without going too far. Yet I haven't really seen that :/ But if something like that existed in, say, a doorgame server, with maybe the mzk addon, it would be an awesome game that people would likely play very competitively in.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M

Re: Re: Lord Door Game
By: esc to MRO on Wed Jan 11 2023 08:33 pm

I think the thing that's missing at present is what a good LORD setup with only good IGMs looks like. It reminds me of that scene in Borat where he's at the supermarket with all the different kinds of cheese...that's the world of LORD IGMs. So many of them are shit, and so many of them break core game mechanics. I'd love to find an installation of LORD that expands on the core game mechanics in the most fun and fair ways to keep the game interesting without going too far. Yet I haven't really seen that :/ But if something like that existed in, say, a doorgame server, with maybe the mzk addon, it would be an awesome game that people would likely play very competitively in.

well some times the fun is in having a crazy game with lots of cheating.
so you have that game and then you have a clean game.

you can also do different menusets, different creatures and get some great igms. there was one igm where it was a doorgame made into an igm just to get the word out. that was very interesting. you can also write lord scripts and essentially have a game inside a game in that manner, too.

Seth was not a fish out of water when writing that game. he had a natural affinity for games and he understood what makes them work.

---
■ Synchronet ■ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::

MRO wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Re: Re: Lord Door Game
By: Jimmy Anderson to Nightfox on Sat Jan 07 2023 09:55 pm

BBSes these days than there used to be.

Yeah - I was specifically referring to why LORD is not full of players
like in the old days... Cause the BBS is not full of users. :-)

also before this big loss of users sysops thought it was a great idea
to install hundreds of doorgames. that's absolutely not how you help
user interaction. seth himself said how to get user interaction in the docs.

sysops thought making things complicated was a good idea.

Yeah, less is more, sometimes, but where I lived back in the heyday
sysops wanted several style of doors to attract different people. :-)



... Every crowd has a silver lining - Phineas Taylor Barnum
--- MultiMail/Mac v0.52
■ Synchronet ■ Final Zone BBS - final-zone.net - finalzone.ddns.net

Re: Re: Lord Door Game
By: Jimmy Anderson to Wormwood on Thu Jan 05 2023 11:13 am

Wormwood wrote to All <=-

Pretty sure I found a way to game LORD. Not sure if its a bug or not. I think I could probably be number 1 forever now but theres only like 3 players. Why don't people play this anymore?

I blame people not having local BBS's to log in to and we don't
'know our neighbors' anymore...

... Where quality is just a word we like to use.

I see a lot of guys playing it on the BBS I use. I have been playing it for 30 years now. Love me some LORD.

---
■ Synchronet ■ Rick's BBS telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23

John O'Rourke wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Re: Re: Lord Door Game
By: Jimmy Anderson to Wormwood on Thu Jan 05 2023 11:13 am

Wormwood wrote to All <=-

Pretty sure I found a way to game LORD. Not sure if its a bug or not. I think I could probably be number 1 forever now but theres only like 3 players. Why don't people play this anymore?

I blame people not having local BBS's to log in to and we don't
'know our neighbors' anymore...

... Where quality is just a word we like to use.

I see a lot of guys playing it on the BBS I use. I have been playing it for 30 years now. Love me some LORD.

I enjoy it. What's the BBS?



... Elvis has left the echo.
--- MultiMail/Mac v0.52
■ Synchronet ■ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com