At Wed, 3 May 2006 12:42:14 +0200, Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So let's modify my use case your distinction: the game could be > configured to enable cheating. For this, it would drop the capability to > the hall of fame, because the hall of fame is only useful when you > participate in competition.
You probably misunderstood me. I think that a shared high score file is useful even if cheating is allowed. Think about the shared high score file as a billboard, where people can talk about their experiences with the game. In fact, I think it would be nice if the high score entries would also provide a log of the game (so one can watch how the others played, or cheated), and if it would be associated with a forum. Also, it would be nice to allow others to watch while one is playing (I have this particular idea from nethack.alt.org --- try to telnet into it). We can talk about competition, however, I would rather avoid it because my views on that are pretty strong and not very relevant to the discussion. I think for now it suffices to observe that any type of competition can not possibly be confined. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
