Many MUSHes with combat systems in fact discourage their players from using them.

RealNetworks initially tried to discourage development of alternative players by keeping their audio format secret.

Thus, players who hold weak poker hands attempt to convince other players at the table that they are strong: staring down an opponent, throwing chips down forcefully into the pot in an effort to discourage others from calling.

* Overshooting – Fields may discourage players from overshooting ( also regarded as bonus balling, " overkill " or lighting up ), which is to repeatedly shoot a player after they are eliminated from the game.

Some games will discourage camping by nagging players who remain stationary for a time to move on, or applying harsher penalties to alleged campers such as small amounts of periodic damage ( which, if ignored, will eventually kill the player and force him to respawn elsewhere ).

Once a mark enters the circle of apparent players and faces the operator, the gang surrounds the player to discourage an easy exit and to keep other pedestrians from entering and disrupting the confidence trick gang's action on the main mark.

The intention is to discourage the practice, which upsets other players ' strategies to the point where the only acceptable resolution may be to declare the round void.

Some chess players and fans believe short grandmaster draws or even all draws by agreement are bad, but attempts to stop or discourage them have not been effective.

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They need to have a good free throw percentage too, to be reliable in close games and to discourage opposing players from fouling.

This was especially common in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, where players would become angry and bitter when others would try and advance the game ( e. g. planting a bomb at a target location that, if allowed to detonate, would end the game ) and would discourage their team from protecting the bomb so the enemy could defuse it.

Some occasions where the crowd noise is extra loud can be before kickoff ( Liverpool fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone as the players run out ); during the buildup to and scoring of a goal ; when encouraging the team to come back from defeat ; to discourage an opposition penalty taker ; or to harass a referee giving a free kick to the opposition team.

Originally Hecklers Online virtual " tokens " were given out as prizes to the highest scoring player on each team at the end of the month, but this practice was later dropped at the request of players who wanted to discourage new players from joining just for the tokens.

To discourage players from accidentally learning what awaited by reading all the questions, each booklet contained a number of plausible-sounding " fake " questions.

* Beginning in 2010, the NFL implemented intra-division scheduling only during Week 17 in order to discourage teams who have secured playoff berths from resting key players and phoning in games at the end of the season.

As the chromatic harmonica is designed to play melodies in any key, many 16-hole and special version chromatic are only made in the key of C. Because of this, there are many approaches to get over the limits of the chromatic harmonica: the first approach, encouraged mainly by classical music players ( such as Franz Chmel ), is that a good harmonica player should try his or her best to use the chromatic in the key of C ; some even discourage switching to other keys.

Presidential coercion had succeeded not only in poisoning the courtiers, `` toadies '' and sycophants of the `` bench '' against me, but it had been so far-reaching as to discourage any lawyer in the nation from representing me!!

The main vocalisation is the male's loud advertisement call which seeks to both encourage a female to approach and discourage other males from intruding on its territory.

The abbess tries to discourage her from working with the irreverent Beethoven.

In fact, the perceived need for some kind of graduate credential is so strong that some undergraduate BME programs will actively discourage students from majoring in BME without an expressed intention to also obtain a masters degree or apply to medical school afterwards.

In both these countries, private trade associations within the industry have established loose standards, some say as a stop-gap measure to discourage independent government agencies from establishing tougher consumer-friendly standards.

Even though slaves outnumbered the Portuguese colonists, the lack of weapons, the colonial law, the disagreement between slaves coming from different African cultures and their complete lack of knowledge about the land and its surroundings would usually discourage the idea of a rebellion.

" Poll " is an archaic legal term referring to documents with straight edges ; these distinguished a deed binding only one person from one affecting more than a single person ( an " indenture ", so named during the time when such agreements would be written out repeatedly on a single sheet, then the copies separated by being irregularly torn or cut, i. e. " indented ", so that each party had a document with corresponding tears, to discourage forgery ).

In the past, the age group could compete only springboard, to discourage children from taking on the greater risks of tower diving.

Additionally, the nesting sites needed to be close to rich feeding areas and be far enough from the mainland to discourage visitation by humans and Polar Bears.

He was imprisoned in Lancaster for five months, during which he wrote to the king offering advice on governance: Charles should refrain from war and domestic religious persecution, and discourage oath-taking, plays, and maypole games.

Heart of Darkness attests to Conrad ’ s paradigm through its motif of, as Sandya Shetty puts it, “ ontradictions, ambiguities, and discontinuities .” Conrad contradicts himself in the novel both to discourage people from believing that they can understand the world and, paradoxically, to encourage people to explore the vast awe inspiring world more.

The barriers must be strong enough to prevent or discourage any potential competitor from entering the market.

Digital instruments typically discourage users from experimentation, due to their lack of the feedback and direct control that switches and knobs would provide, but patch editors give owners of hardware instruments and effects devices the same editing functionality that is available to users of software synthesizers.

Some programming styles discourage mutual recursion, claiming that it can be confusing to distinguish the conditions which will return an answer from the conditions that would allow the code to run forever without producing an answer.

Such perceived or actual safety issues discourage many New Zealanders from cycling.

The UN, after approval by the Security Council, sends peacekeepers to regions where armed conflict has recently ceased or paused to enforce the terms of peace agreements and to discourage combatants from resuming hostilities.

Despite Gorbachev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected as president, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote.

Inhaling nitrous oxide from tanks used in automotive systems is unsafe, because the toxic gas sulfur dioxide is mixed in around 100 ppm, specifically to discourage recreational use.

For example, Orthodox, Haredi, and Hasidic rabbis discourage women from wearing a yarmulke, tallit or tefillin.

To discourage competitors from making compatible products, publishers of proprietary software often keep the details of their programs ' serialization formats a trade secret.

Following the US invasion of Grenada, countries previously looking for support from Cuba saw that the United States was likely to take violent action to discourage this.

Ancient Sparta minted coins from iron to discourage its citizens from engaging in foreign trade.

A trust that uses distributions from income or principal as an incentive to encourage or discourage certain behaviors on the part of the beneficiary.

The local merchants stipulated that the railroad station had to be at least two miles ( 3 km ) outside of town in order to discourage students from leaving on the weekends and spending their money elsewhere.

Through such broadcasts, the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda attempted to discourage and demoralize British, Canadian, Australian and American troops and the British population within radio listening range, to suppress the effectiveness of the Allied war effort through propaganda, and to motivate the Allies to agree to peace terms leaving the Nazi regime intact and in power.

In 2009 several major Canadian retailers had their own version of the day by running promotions to discourage shoppers from leaving for the U. S. Canada's Boxing Day is comparable to Black Friday in terms of retailer impact and consumerism, but Black Fridays in the U. S. seem to provide deeper or more extreme price cuts than Canadian retailers, even for the same international retailer.

In April 2002, she told a reporter of her work to discourage teenagers from idolizing Manson and her hope of someday leaving prison to live in Laguna Beach, California.

The 2007 exams were the first with only 1. 5 points awarded for a blank, to discourage students from leaving a large number of questions blank in order to assure qualification for the AIME.

Their recommendations included leaving the windows of the mill open at night, fumigation of rooms with tobacco ( as this was thought to discourage disease ), regular cleaning of rooms and toilets, and occasional bathing of children.

Singapore's law requires that every Singaporean-registered vehicle leaving Singapore must have at least a three-quarter-full petrol tank, due to the fact that the Singapore Government wanted to discourage Singaporeans from going over to Johor simply to buy cheaper petrol, although in the past, a half tank of petrol was sufficient.

Drug decriminalization is in some ways an intermediate between prohibition and legalisation, and has been criticised as being " the worst of both worlds ", in that drug sales would still be illegal, thus perpetuating the problems associated with leaving production and distribution of drugs to the criminal underworld, while also failing to discourage illegal drug use by removing the criminal penalties that might otherwise cause some people to choose not to use drugs.

In some countries, the government may implement similar laws or policies to prevent or discourage employees from leaving certain companies or government organizations.