tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170674472098446028.post2623460298511426656..comments2024-03-27T03:18:19.290-04:00Comments on Aeons & Augauries: Look into the darkness for hope and the gutter for who shall answer the callJDJarvishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170674472098446028.post-36179187797248148632018-06-02T09:19:11.279-04:002018-06-02T09:19:11.279-04:00A multilayered game that rewarded more than conque...A multilayered game that rewarded more than conquest and theft would certainly help avoid that pattern. We do have to recall people are also into RPGs for escapism, hopefully people are involved in whole heap of socially redeeming and constructive projects in their normal lives. <br />As for Ultima IV I recall playing it twice and even and I was no saint in the second more successful but did fairly well by avoiding petty mayhem.<br /><br />There was an online game at my university many years back and my character (a thief) had managed by bizarre quirks of the game system to be a member of the dark sorcerers guild and the good healers guild which was exposed to one of the bigshots in the game when he noticed I had a bunch of bologna sandwiches and the only place in the game to get bologna sandwiches was from a kobold child that respawned every 12 minutes or so and god guys had no clear path to the sandwich that wasn't really cumbersome but bad guys well they could get the sandwich pretty easily. <br /><br />Hmmm...I'm starting to suspect I could also be part of the problem with the players going all loot and stabby.JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8170674472098446028.post-64207498089891135192018-05-14T11:47:27.487-04:002018-05-14T11:47:27.487-04:00I think rewarding experience for things other than...I think rewarding experience for things other than killing would help. I also remember the computer game Ultima IV where one advanced by doing virtuous deeds. My buddy never finished that game because he couldn't stop taking things out of the vendors chests.imredavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791259426241403181noreply@blogger.com