Anyone play MUD's?

Daz · March 4, 2004, 07:27

I know its somewhat retro, but I enjoyed playing Avatar Mud a couple of years ago. Does anyone play those.....

Unfortunately, I ended up behind a very restrictive firewall , thus I cannot play anymore (at work )

General Ludd · March 4, 2004, 10:24

I used to play a MUD called Aaaaarrgh (or something to that effect) quite alot a few years ago.

Garth Vader · March 4, 2004, 16:13

I did back in University but it's been quite a while.

Urban Ranger · March 5, 2004, 00:02

I played it when I was a pupil at uni

Asher · March 5, 2004, 00:07

I played them -- and created one -- when I was a pupil in Jr. High.

Suck it, Suck it, SUCK IT!!!

Space05us · March 5, 2004, 01:25

I used to play MUDs a year or two ago, but I couldnt find a good one so I gave up on them. I also created a region in a MUD. But the person didnt stick with it and ended up trashing the project

Quote:

Suck it, Suck it, SUCK IT!!!

getting desperate, or was that the name of the MUD?

Daz · March 5, 2004, 02:50

I kinda liked the social aspects of it. Folks helping you out and stuff....

Urban Ranger · March 5, 2004, 10:32

Yeah, that's the only reason I played MUD.

FlameFlash · March 5, 2004, 11:51

I played one back when I was a freshman in high school... a friend of mine plays one currently, I often remind him of his geekyness.

Jac de Molay · March 5, 2004, 12:15

I think about half my dorm flunked out of school playing MUD 24/7 back in '92. Huge player-to-player battles with massively powerful characters. Those were the good ole days

I have an old computer that I use exclusively for MUD, which has an excellent version of ZMUD, the best client out there. I haven't played in a while, but I used to play on NannyMud, BatMUD, and End of the Line Mud (my fave with the best stat and combat system out there)

Yes, I am a no-life geek

Barinthus · March 5, 2004, 12:56

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Originally posted by Osweld
I used to play a MUD called Aaaaarrgh (or something to that effect) quite alot a few years ago.

Castle Aaaaargh, is that the one?

I love mudding but the problem is it consumes up literally every second of my free time. During college years, that wasn't a problem especially over the breaks. I used to work in a computer lab so that was an ideal job for a mudder.

My first one was TimeWarp, a LpMud back in uhhh '95. I was a human warrior based on the Renshai clan in that book series - no armour at all except for leather jerkin and only uses swords, dual wielding.

After that, I moved on to 3K (Three Kindgoms, still at 3K.org 5000 if I remember correctly). One of my favorite muds ever. I believe this was based on Castle Aaaaargh but it's now a completely different mud. Only thing that it still retain from the old days of Castle Aaaargh is whenever someone dies, everybody will see on their screen " scream 'Aaaaarrrrggggghhh!' as he dies to ".

However I wondered if there was better muds out there so I floated among muds for a while. I found one named Village Rivalry (or something like that). The community there was very welcoming and friendly, excellent guild themes, really, the mud itself was awesome and unique. Unfortunately not many people found it so at the best there are perhaps only at around 15 players at a time. The low numbers of players basically just disencouraged me from staying there. From what I understand, there were two major crashes which all players' files were lost so that didn't exactly help either. It's a shame really.

I eventually returned to 3K. When I moved to California, a friend persuaded me to try out his mud - Dark and Shattered Lands (DSL). This would be my first serious attempt to mud a DikuMUD (all muds listed above are LPMuds). I fell in love with that mud - it's very rich detailed and your roleplaying actually do count for something in there. Not as buggy as other DikuMUDs I've tried so that's a big bonus too.

Unfortunately the structure of my life right now just doesn't permit for mudding so I had to quit.

BTW if you check out my profile you will see some references to my character I had in DSL, one of three anyway. Other two were this chaotic evil dark dwarf clerc (I planned to reclass him as a shaman) and a chaotic good sea elf bard (planned reclass - either a charlatan or a skald). The human mage mentioned in my profile was a lawful netural.

www.dsl-mud.org if you're interested...

Tuberski · March 5, 2004, 15:26

We were so poor when I was young that we had to make our MUD's with dirt and water.

ACK!

SCG · March 6, 2004, 02:09

i used to be really into them - having high level characters in various high level guild positions, then got burnt out on them. now i have 1 or 2 i stop by from time to time to chat and occasionally go out and xp on.

Verto · March 7, 2004, 15:39

I played the Two Towers MUD pretty often at one point. Good times.

Dis · March 8, 2004, 04:53

now for a stupid question.

What is a MUD?

I'm sure I once knew what this was- it sounds very familiar. But for the life of me, I cannot remember.

Asher · March 8, 2004, 05:21

Multi-User Dungeon.

Text-based online RPGs, typically.

Daz · March 8, 2004, 08:53

Anyone know of a MUD that can be played through a mean firewall?

Obviously, no FTP will work....

SCG · March 8, 2004, 11:50

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Originally posted by Daz
Anyone know of a MUD that can be played through a mean firewall?

Obviously, no FTP will work....

i may be missing the point of the question, but ftp isn't needed to mud, just telnet. if you wanted to start your own mud, ftp was useful to download the initial mudcode (ie circle etc)

of course where i went to school, they disabled the telnet ports, and set up a java interface to simulate telnet so i wasn't able to mud from certain computers after that point...

Barinthus · March 8, 2004, 13:40

Try ZMUD client? Same thing happened at my school re: telnet so I downloaded ZMUD and was able to use that.

Barinthus · March 8, 2004, 13:42

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Originally posted by Asher
Multi-User Dungeon.

Text-based online RPGs, typically.

Yep. For those completely clueless, I tend to ask them if they ever heard of Everquest. If I'm lucky and they have, I'd just tell them imagine an online game similar but completely text-based.

Urban Ranger · March 8, 2004, 23:27

Telnet or ssh. Depends on the settings of your server.