Part One: Views on Botting
Personally, I script something, again the tedious stuff. I don't
generally take botting too far, but I am for sripting. Two reasons.
1. With most muds out there and I do mean THE MAJORITY (well,
non-strictly enforced rp muds), all there is to do is quest and level.
Botting adds another demension to an otherwise boring existance. If you
want the challenge of writing a script that actually works, which isn't
always easy, then more power to you. I used to allow it on the mud I ran.
2. And most importantly, it's a GAME. It's supposed to be fun. We are
all individuals and what is fun to you may not be fun to me.
Part TWO: Something I just remembered.
I know this is kinda old, but I just remembered something a mud I played
had. It wrecked hell on scripts.
On their channels, emotes and gmotes, they had a { color code that
resulted in \n\r. Players used to have fun setting off other's peoples bots.
The upsides:
Lets the players police themselves if you don't have a lot of imms.
Cuts down on the amount of botting to some extent.
The downsides:
Only the (semi)geeks can create complex enough scripts to use them.
It's more ooc than ic.
Just a thought.
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