Hi Harmony, I don't know who that little comment was aimed at, but let me just say I think your opinion is based on some erronious assumption on how muds and mud clients work. As I basically understand your opinion you believe that because muds are constantly being updated that the mud clients must be regularly updated as well to support these muds. The problem with your assumption is that it is completely false. One absolutely has nothing to do with the other. How can I say that with authority?
Well, let's think about it. A mud is essentially a program, a multiuser dungeon, installed on a web server. People access the game by installing a telnet client, in this case mud clients, that log into the game server and access the program remotely. Nothing is physically installed to your computer accept the telnet client. So when the game, mud, is updated it is updated on the server side and has nothing to do with what version of mud client or telnet client software is installed on the client's computer. Now, we get to the mud client. Mud clients are basically just a fansy telnet client with extra scripts, sounds, etc specifically designed for playing muds. Although, not necessary mud clients are often updated with scripts, sounds, etc to better support popular muds. Is it necessary? No. It is not. If I wanted to I could walk over to my laptop, bring up the Linux shell environment, and type "telnet" and log into any mud of my choice. True using a plane text telnet client like that won't be as good as some of the fansier mud clients with scripts, sound packs, etc but they aren't necessary to play the mud in question. All that extra stuff is just extra stuff. I use a mud client called Gnome Mud, and it does what I want it to do. It doesn't have to be the latest and greatest version to give reasonable access to a mud. HTH On 4/2/11, Harmony Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > Well someone is lacking serious common sense. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
