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 BALANCE BALANCING

   "Game Balance" is a term that brings a different thing to mind for every
person that hears it. What is most important about game balance is to keep in
mind what each zone is designed for. For example, high-level players, newbies,
or small groups.  The objects and monsters found in the area should match the
level, abilities, and needs of the players expected to use the area. Most 
players do not like to be given vast treasure with no difficulty in getting 
it, but on the other hand, nobody likes to fight the most difficult mob on the
MUD? and get nothing for doing it.  Zones should not be impossibly hard or
absurdly easy.    
   Understandably, builders want their zones to be popular, but they sometimes
attempt to achieve this goal by purposefully making their zone unbalanced,
adding powerful weapons or armor with no harmful side-effects or mobiles that
are easy to kill yet give massive numbers of experience points.  Such zones are
destined both to become very popular and invariably to bring about the death of
the mud.  Every zone, every room, every object, every mob, will be checked
before being implemented into the game.  Do not waste everyone's time, (ours for
having to recheck your zone, and yours for having to fix any problems we find)
keep the balance.  

See also: STANDARDS
Abigail