Thread: MUDs!!!!

Anyone play MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons)? Text based ones, not graphical MUDs like World of Warcraft or Everquest. I'm currently playing Azilar, using the AL Client. I'm really starting to get into it, perhaps a little too much? Post what MUD you play and what client (if any) you use.

I play Imperian, occasionally using their own Java client (Nexus), but usually using RoAClient. To be honest, I'm not impressed with any of the MUD clients. I'm going to give zMUD one more try, but I'm already most of the way through coding my own, so if I don't like it either, no big deal.

I used to use JMC (Jaba Mud Client)...
It's new versions are worse than the older ones.

Clients aren't really a big deal for me. Their job isn't complicated, but, it's more appealing to look at Windows GUI then use plain old console window.

I used to play Shadowdale MUD (sdmud.org 7777) using an old and no longer supported version of zMUD. I didn't care so much about the zmud client, it did the connection, formatted stuff in pretiful colors for me and allowed me to use macros. I was almost as happy playing with niftytelnet or even windows console telnet app.

SD Mud is based on Shadowdale and uses DaleMud (a Diku deriv), but is heavily modded and customized. SD is a very colorful mud if you turn the color options on; room exits are highlighted in different colors which helps you see at a glance where you can go, certain spells are done in certain colors to stand out, etc. The userbase is (was, I haven't logged on for lack of time in probably a year now so I don't know if it is still up... it probably is) very loyal and at one point very tight, but also very friendly and helpful to newbies. At any given time, if you were new and one of the older players was on, they'd offer to take you around and get you equipped and get you some xp and whatnot.

Oh, many happy memories on Shadowdale. )

We should do a CProg MUD. Maybe like a Cyberpunk type atmosphere, where you can hack fake machines. And form 'hacking teams' to be more powerful. Then you can get viruses and keyloggers to help you hack better. Just an idea....

Hmmm, in one of the newbie areas of this proposed MUD, Quzah could be a mob that the newbie has to find a way to bypass; the puzzles of this area would be programming excercises, and until the newbie competently put a simple program together, the Quzah mob would keep teleporting the newbie back to the beginning to re-read the mud tutorial and then solve the problem correctly, or if this newbie confronted him enough times, Quzah would simply eviscerate the player...

you'd be surprised how much changes over a short period of time (approx five years).

Really short period

We managed to get rid of Russia in 1991.