MUDs

Not to play one.

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Original post by andy-pandy
Not to play one.

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If that wasn't an attempt to be funny, then I'm sick of these smartass one-liners. You could find something more productive to do like maybe RESPOND TO HIS POST instead of trying to look too-cool for MUDs...they happen to be great in my opinion and if you don't like them, leave that to a different thread. He asked "what would you suggest?" as in which MUDs, not "do you think I should attempt to play a MUD?"...yeesh...learn some oberservation skills, manners too...anyways OctDev...I highly suggest 3 Kingdoms (http://www.3k.org/) as a starter. Its been around a long while and will definitely show you what MUDs are all about.

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Telnet to winterkill.org port 4000

I code there.

one public one I know of is RetroMud.org (port 3000).

Although.. google is your friend.

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Mud Connector has the largest number of MUD listings that I know of. If you have a specific category you are interested in, choose the "Category Listings" at the right. I prefer Wheel of Time based MUDs myself.

Just what is your typical MUD like? I''ve never played one either.

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Original post by mr_dejao
Mud Connector has the largest number of MUD listings that I know of. If you have a specific category you are interested in, choose the "Category Listings" at the right. I prefer Wheel of Time based MUDs myself.

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Used to be a regular on Dragon''s Fang way back in the day...ahh, the days of roleplaying an Asha''man losing his grip on reality.

I used to MUD quite a bit. Stated early on with Shadowdale, moved on for a long time to AstroMUD, got fed up there and moved on to building for a few never-took-off projects. Played a couple of Godwars varients for a while, then Dragon''s Fang for a long time, paired that with quite some time spent on Aliens vs. Predator. And then somewhere in there I got distracted and stopped playing totally. This was all almost three years ago, though. Last I checked a few months back, MUDs had lost most of their population, and had become wastelands of maybe 3-4 people on at any given time, compared to the 14-20 I was always used to.
Which is sad.

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Gemstone III is, IMHO, the best ever! But it costs $9 a month. Imagine that, a text MUD actually CHARGING people to play! I mean, this is 2003! And they''re charging people to play a text MUD for the same price as a 3D MMORPG! You KNOW it''s gotta be good!

Realms of Despair is quite popular, and starts you out fairly slow. You have a choice of many races, and classes, and lots of people play it, up into the hundreds at times. Anyway, give it a check out.

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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires..." Godsmack
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Its still sad how back in the day you could find a couple thousand players in a MUD. They were HUGE too. Now, its "lots of people play it, up into the hundreds at times." And they have to be so SMALL or else you wouldn''t ever come into contact with anyone.

We oughta make a GameDev MUD! Well, at least one that isn''t secret.

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Original post by BradDaBug
Gemstone III is, IMHO, the best ever! But it costs $9 a month. Imagine that, a text MUD actually CHARGING people to play! I mean, this is 2003! And they''re charging people to play a text MUD for the same price as a 3D MMORPG! You KNOW it''s gotta be good!

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Lol... that, or they realise that some people haven''t caught up to the 00''s and will actually PAY that!

I used to implement on a Circle 2.2 back in the day (95''). I think one of my old partners is still keeping it up- AugMUD. I tried my hand at writing a C++ version from scratch around 98''... please don''t laugh. I had all db in place, socket handling, combat routines, spec proc and a ternary-tree based command parser, when I lost everything to a hd crash. @#$%@#$ Trojans.

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I get the retromud screen but can''t type... I''m using the winxp command prompt telnet...

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Start -> Run -> telnet

Then, in the options/configuration, select Local Echo, which will display what you type.

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I've been playing Divine Blood for about three-four years now. Small player base (About 20 people online at peak time), but I prefer that over a larger one. I play as Dameon.

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[edited by - wild_pointer on May 7, 2003 3:39:57 PM]

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Original post by Drevay
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Start -> Run -> telnet

Then, in the options/configuration, select Local Echo, which will display what you type.

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"Few creatures of the night have captured our imagination like vampires..." Godsmack
(c) 2003 DigiCode - My solo company in progress.

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I get the command based telnet...

-~-The Cow of Darkness-~-

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Original post by cowsarenotevil
I get the command based telnet...

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type ''set localecho''

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Better yet, download gmud. It''s the only good free mud client I know of, and it doesn''t require an install.

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