Shadow Dragon, The Greenhole area is actually finished - or rather, it was considered finished, many years ago, when it was installed. The biggest problem with the area is that it needs maintenance, someone to come in, really learn all the details, and take care of it in a manner that the builder would have intended. Because it's such a complex area, it's unlikely that will happen soon.
One of the big problems with history on the Alter Aeon server is that it's being written by so many people at the same time. There's also not much payoff for going back to clean up or add history to an older area - I could spend a week making an older area beautiful, but most players would prefer that I work on brand new material. Regarding 'guess the syntax' games, I abhor those, and have put in place a pretty strong policy of keeping them limited. Games and puzzles should be something you can figure out, given obvious clues and a little effort. They should not be guessing games. If you find syntax puzzles in the game, please report them with the 'bug' or 'typo' command. (Note that the chess area is the one big exception to this, but only because the syntax is standard in professional chess, and because there's no other reasonable way to make the area work with the current server code. If it makes you feel any better, I have never once completed the chess quests.) For more information about how much I hate syntax puzzles, please see the 'help catrub' page on the server. The web url is http://alteraeon.com:8080/help/catrub_puzzles Dennis Towne Alter Aeon MUD http://www.alteraeon.com On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Shadow Dragon <elementalult...@hotmail.com> wrote: [snip] > There's a > couple areas on alter where you can see a little history, but not many. My > favorite area is still the greenhole, simply for it's amazing level of > interactivity, and it's unfinished and will probably remain so. > > I think what it boils down to is you either have no problems with muds at > all and play them, or there's just one little flaw that you can find in > every mud that eventually breaks the whole game for you. At least that's > what I'm finding. Your flaw, dark, is time, and mine is lack of things to do > and in a lot of cases, lack of interactivity with the world. Oh, and guess > the syntax. Guess the syntax is terrible. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
