Beyond those initiations, seven challenges exist for each discipline, arranged into themes: Of these, the first in each group is a trivial request, intended to introduce players to the discipline - the group that challenge is in. The majority of ATITD challenges take the form of 56 defined "Tests", separated into several groups. More than one player has wondered (correctly) if this game is a sociology experiment in progress.
While players do not engage in direct combat, the social tests in the game (many of which require community votes) encourage social combat which encourages the best and worst social behavior in players. This game has no physical combat system, however, the psychological combat of social PVP can be very intense. Finally, the legal system also requires a great deal of cooperation between players, as a petition must be spread, signed, and returned with a certain threshold of signatures. The legal system as currently defined can only restrict players' options, alter ownership rights, or change a minor portion of a challenge however, within those options, the possibilities have not been exhausted. With the legal system, players have the option to create petitions of any kind, like the redistribution of expired accounts' materials, the direct ban of a player, or even a change in an avatar's sex. Upon reaching the mainland, the first goal of most players is to begin the central challenges of the game (Tests), find public resources, and expand upon what knowledge they have while integrating themselves into the community at large.ĪTITD has a legal system, a controlled variant on Nomic which is generally restricted by what the developers can code, as well as the nature of such a system. When a new player exits the welcoming island into mainland Egypt, they may immediately begin trekking around to look for a suitable settlement location or community.
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After completing a series of tasks given to them, players may make their way to the mainland and begin the real game. Additionally, there are sufficient activities to be learned and performed that it is considered exceedingly difficult to be a Jack of all trades: this too leads itself to a much more social aspect.Ī recurring theme is a "welcoming island" which established players can enter at any time: this allows them to train new players at their own leisure, and introduce them to the specifics of the game. Players can mint their own currencies but these have never had widespread adoption. There is an in-game economy, including an amount of regional or global trade however, there is no official, backed currency.
Within a Telling, players can write, introduce, and pass laws (including player bans), and make feature requests. To be clear about this, the game actually ends a wipe is performed, and the game (and all players) start from scratch using the mechanism that it is now a couple of player generations removed. ATITD has a global foregame, midgame, and endgame: on average so far, every year and a half the game ends, achievements are tabulated, and a new "Telling" begins, with certain modifications requested by the player base, or by arbitrary developer choice. The game's main focuses are building, community, research and personal or group challenges called "Tests". Instead, a variety of social activities provide for the basis of most interaction in the game. A Tale in the Desert is a social MMORPG which does not include combat.
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