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Everwar, Utopia, and other MUDs I've worked on and alongside(and I assume MUDs such as Godwars II and many others that I have less immediate experience with) have their combat system's immediate goal be to challenge PKers in an innovative way, using a balanced and player-skill oriented system.
Whereas skill is certainly a factor in any online PvP game, including IRE games, there are many things about IRE's combat system that does, indeed, show its goal to be to entertain the masses and turn a profit, as opposed to creating the most balanced, player-skill oriented, innovative and challenging system that it can.
You cannot assume all games have the same goal.
I believe KaVir was trying to using ascii picture generation as an example of an idea that could be worked with and implemented to reduce player combat scripting.
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