[Discuss] Organising Adventurers - intended or not?

[Timothy Collett]

On Jan 2, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Anthony Anderson wrote:

> Replying to myself, I know.  Got too zealous on the Send button.
>
> Ultimately, it comes down to the question of- do you want to treat  
> the disease or the symptoms?  It makes so much more sense to work  
> on changing everyone's minds about micromanaging, and bolting those  
> who still don't get it.  It makes very little sense to implement  
> new mechanics every time an instance of micromanaging is present.   
> You always want to treat the disease if you ever want the patient  
> to get healthy.  Symptoms are secondary and are taken care of when  
> the disease is removed.

While the principle is sound, the practice is...ah...impractical.

People won't change.  They will continue to want to powergame, and  
micromanage, and circumvent.  *They will continue to want to win the  
game.*

Yes, we can institute harsher rules, and bolt anyone who even thinks  
about putting a foot out of line, but that'll only drive off people  
who aren't doing anything wrong, and get punished anyway.

Unless we're willing to make treating the disease our full-time jobs,  
we're not going to be very successful at it.  The best we'll be able  
to achieve is people grumbling about not being able to do things they  
feel like they should be able to.

Changing code is a LOT easier than changing people.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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