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In article <353BC586...@acp.com.au>, Martgen  <ami...@acp.com.au> wrote:
>I'm conducting a bit of research about the online gaming community. I
>want to know which games YOU think have potentially been ruined by
>players who are, at the moment, grouped under names such as 'Player
>Killers' (Ultima Online) or 'Tank Rushers' (Total Annihilation et al.)
>and so on.

What's wrong with tank rushing? Or player killing?

I don't think rushing is a problem in TA though.

>Most of the time there's two sides to the argument -- or two ways of
>playing -- but the fact remains that some gamers feel multiplyer games
>played over the Internet can be ruined by players who don't 'play by the
>rules' as it were.

Tank rushers and player killers *are* playing by the rules.

>* What do you do to decrease the chance of this happening? Are there
>certain strategies, game configuration parameters, chat zones or methods
>of game hosting you use to minimise the chances of letting 'bad' players
>into or affecting your games?

Maybe if the games had been properly balanced in the first place, tank
rushing wouldn't be a problem. Why are people ticked off that someone has
figured out the "best" strategy and [gasp] actually uses it? As for player
killing on UO, that isn't so much a problem, but rather a symptom of the
multitude of other problems that UO has.
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