From: doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 00:11:09 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Virtual City (tm) and Virtual Capitalism (fwd)
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Er...there are a *lot* of different kinds of mu*'s, and at least as
many different definitions of "wizard". In some worlds they call people
wizards who would simply be players elsewhere; in other worlds "wizards"
have godlike status. Similarly with "programmer"; it can mean an advanced
builder, or it can mean somebody who actually hacks the C underpinnings.
You'd have to be a hardcore afficionado of the whole range to have basis
for sweeping statements.

(The kind that I'm least familiar with is apparently the most common,
where people earn wizard status by advancing in some kind of game, but
there's endless variation. When people create their own worlds, they
tend to create ranks to suit their own tastes, too. Gonna legislate
world creation? ;-)
        Doug -- a sometime but partially cured mu* wizard and programmer