Hi.
A couple of thoughts, and bare in mind I am not an advanced user.
Firstly, a client is what you connect to a mud with. Think of it like an
internet brouser. You can't just view the internet on your computer without
anything, you need a program to display the pages and perform other
functions, whether that is internet explorer, firefox, safari or whatever.
The web pages are out there on the internet, but you aren't going to get to
visit them without a brouser to display them for you.
Once you have your brouser, you need the address of the page your going to,
which is like the mud connection information, ie, the hostname and port
number. For instance materiamagica.com port 4000. You can just type this
into your mud client and your client will start displaying a mud.
As regards clients, I personally am a big fan of vipmud, even though i
freely admit the manual isn't useful. The reason i suggest vipmud is that it
has a very easy interface, you can just tab between the in put and output
windows, and type stuff, and use functions like the find text feature to
easily find say a keyword.
I'm not sure how it is with scripting, since I'm not really that advanced at
scripting myself, but for basic playing it works well, provided that you set
stuff like speech interupt etc, and that is all just in the speech menue.
I would also suggest you pick your mud carefully, since some muds are harder
to play than others.
I'd strongly recommend trying alteraeon, and indeed the great soundpack for
it. Alteraeon is highly newbie friendly, has directions to help you get
around, and you don't need to monkey about with scripting or hiding text
since the mud already does it for you. Oh, and if you use the mushclient
soundpack you get basically a full on rpg as well.
All the best,
Dark.
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