Hi Lindsay.
to be honest I've not played many muds, since I tend to find if I am playing
a game with descriptive text the real time elements get in the way of my
appreciation of the game's atmosphere. After all, if you walk into the
Dragon's laire and before you have time to read the description your typing
commands like a demon and having your mud client saying "the dragon attacks
you for x damage" you don't really get time to be ored.
In fairness Dentin did stick in a really nice command the preview corpse
command which gives you enemy descriptions after you have defeated them so
that you can appreciate what things are like, but still generally speaking I
find myself less attracted to muds than to other forms of interactive
textual games such as gamebooks or browser rpgs.
I also confess I'm a rather antisocial player in and am more interested in
exploring and interacting with the game than with other players, for all I
don't mind saying a quick hello. Indeed the Alteraeon blog had a very nice
article a while ago which listed different types of game players, and the
explorer type definitely fit me :D. This also means any mud with
unrestricted pvp is a complete, absolute and very much major turn off for
me, since frankly i don't care about fighting other players and don't want
my game ruined by them fighting me.
I'm also not personally interested in online rp with other players, (I
prefer my rp live with a real human gm and a few friends), although i do't
necessary mind that so long as there is plenty of solo stuff to do in the
game as well.
Of the mud's I've playedAlter has been my favourite and the one I've spent
most time on. I tried out project bob but found it so stat heavy as to be
rather confusing to play and rather thin on actual atmosphere, I also tried
medevia, but the ascii maps sort of got on my nerves a bit which is a shame
since I rather fancied the random content (though I have heard bad things
about that game).
materiamagica I have spent a reasonable amount of time withhowever at that
point I got irritated with the quest system in the game since it was
possible to level up and miss a lot of quests, and even to complete the
newby area with things half done. Mm has however had some verye extensive
changes recently to alleviate some of these issues, as well as to make
accessible many aspects of the game. Actually their access fixes are very
nice indeed, although I've not yet got around to giving them as much of a
try as I really should.
I'd love to try miriani, or another space mud with different planets,
spaceships and exploration, indeed I've read several parts of the Miriani
docks and online helpto get a handle on the game, however every space mud
I've seen has either been so pvp it's ridiculous like Miriani, or run by
Rp inforcement Nazis.
I really in fairness ought to try more muds, and to spend some more time
with games like Materiamagica, since I know there is more out there, it just
seems whenever I am wanting to play a text game muds never really occur to
me first, I'm more inclined to go and play a gamebook or a browser game
where I can read the text and relax as I play.
This might just be me or a matter of experience though.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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