Well to be honest while I do find at times the music a bit
distracting volume wize the ffact I need to rely less on my speech
and more on the sounds is good.
However I have never been a windows text gamer.
The only reason I havn't touched alter is because for one thing I
have gone so far and havn't tried to go further.
I also have a bit of a hectic lifestyle.
That and the fact realitysoftware related stuff is something I need
to do daily pluss the fact I have just started another sound project
and have a possible computer servicing project on the cards, I have
more than enouggh on my fire to burn all night.
However this flame is dampened by the upgrades on my bathrooms so
while I may from time to time be able to play that nice online game
as long as its not noisy or something extra work like sound voice and
serious testing need to be juggled.
The only reason I have started seriously to go back into full work is
because the smashing and bashing has stopped for the time beeing.
That doesn't mean it won't startt again any moment so.
Playing alter requires me to be in a peacefull mood and I am vary muchly not.
At 11:22 a.m. 6/05/2015, you wrote:
Dark,
You're not the only person to notice or be bothered by this trend
either. As a regular player of Alter, I find the mush-z user's
assumption that everyone is a. using mush-z or b. wishes to have the
numerous sounds included in the game's sound pack disturbing. I began
playing Alter on Telnet. I now use the monkey term scripts developed
by Valiant8086, but I also worked with Aaron to strip out a lot of the
sounds I did not like. The changeover to kxwt strings has eroded my
nonsound position somewhat, but that's more a laziness issue on my
side.
The mush client is a real triumph for the contributors: while much of
the work was done by one person, many have now contributed to its
success on Alter with plug-ins, scripting workarounds, and the like.
The emphasis on the sound environment is the blind player's equivalent
of moving from mud to graphics based mmorpg. A lot of current gamers
probably don't even read the incoming text. At least, I get that
impression often while trying to help them trouble shoot issues. That
said, I think it was probably a brilliant move to go this route and
adopt the existing sound pack and use it as a flagship method of
connecting to the mud. It's brought in a number of players, and
introduced them to A.A. When I first started playing, a good day was
30 or 40 players online, many of whom were idle or multies offloading
equipment. Now, we have upward of 80 or 90 players on at a time with
another 15 or 20 idlers and mules. For a mud in this day and age,
that is truly amazing.
Is it mudding? Probably not in a traditional sense. Is it keeping
the idea alive? Yes. Does that present problems of its own? yes.
Can it be solved easily? No, not without dedicated people willing to
devote time and effort to developing sound packs, and mud admins
willing to give feedback and help by setting up cues in the code to
alert the client when to play sounds. Do most muds have this kind of
dedicated player base and admin staff in the numbers needed to support
the project? Maybe, but probably not. My personal answer to your
problem proposal is that I don't a. necessarily see it as a problem,
though I do regret its impact on mud play b. I don't see an easy
solution. A note in the introductory text won't change anything as
most people do not read such, and there's no way to develop such an
extensive pack for every mud that someone finds interesting or
intriguing. The final issue is this one:
Most people don't have the savvy and the knowledge to fiddle with a
mud client beyond a very basic level. So providing them a tool such
as mush-z gives them a platform from which to expand their play and
horizons on Alter at least.
Don't think I really extended the discussion, but there's my two cents:)
Take care,
Jeremy
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