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[ThtblovesDF]

God I miss the days where we had more MUSH then MUD

(or, rp instead of number games)

[genmac]

God I miss the days where we had more MUSH then MUD

(or, rp instead of number games)

Actually the biggest text games are dedicated entirely to the "MUSH" arts.  TapestriesMUCK has 900 people online and it's theme is something about furry dragon roleplay

[DrPoo]

God I miss the days where we had more MUSH then MUD

(or, rp instead of number games)

Actually the biggest text games are dedicated entirely to the "MUSH" arts.  TapestriesMUCK has 900 people online and it's theme is something about furry dragon roleplay

eew.

[Lord Dullard]

Spoiler: Derail-ish (click to show/hide)

God I miss the days where we had more MUSH then MUD

(or, rp instead of number games)

When I was on MU*s, I was the same way at first. After a while I came to love games with hard numbers and decent combat systems in place because it allowed my characters to just shoot/maul the pretentious purply prose motherfuckers when they became too annoying.

I REALLY need to dig up my Fallout MUX, though. That thing has a giant-arse custom-made combat system, map system, inventory system, and fully featured GM commands that allow the creation of controllable NPCs, items, yadda yadda... and it's based on F1/2. I want to play around with it again but I probably don't have time, really. But I always wanted to find some Fallout junkies and convince them to run the thing for me so I could just sit in the background and do my coding thing in peace. Never materialized. :/

Some of the logs from when I was running the thing all by myself are here: http://fallout-mux.wikidot.com/ -- that was a ton of fun, but trying to GM + code + admin is really too much for one person.

Anyway, sorry for the derail - reading about MU*s got me thinking of old times. I may check this game out, as it looks quite neat, and has some of the most interesting code I've seen on a MUD.

[GlyphGryph]

Tangent:
I would totally play that... if not for the fact that a few minutes would probably enough to pick up the Fallout 1/2 MMO again, and then I would be lost to the cause... heh.

[Sowelu]

Spoiler: Ahh, MUSHes. (click to show/hide)

It all started out with MUDs.  There's always been lots of big and plenty of small MUDs, and always a fairly steady number of MUSHes.  MUCKs don't count since they are basically all furry dragon roleplay.

Hell there's even like three MLP based roleplaying MUSHes.  The one I admin on is reasonably all-ages and takes a dim view of, uh, Tapestries-like activity (read 'strictly forbidden'), while still keeping regular fun inclusive plots going just about every night.  And while some of the old MU*s have long since fallen into cliques, there's always new blood and always new places.  No...the MUSH community is alive and well, all you have to do is go looking for it.  Finding the perfect place has never been an instant easy process except in hindsight.

(An ElfQuest MUSH got me onto the Internet back in like...'94, so.)

It does kinda make me sad that there are more MLP players than Pern players right now, and all the ElfQuest ones are at least a decade dead, but oh well, life goes on and I'll always have my logfiles~.

Oh yeah, and if you remove MUDs from the picture here:  http://mudstats.com/  you'll find that there are about 2700 players on MUSHes/MUXes right now, and 1500 on MUCKs.  Furthermore, not even half of those places are 'adult' or 'furry'.  There's also like five hundred MOO players, but as far as I can tell they idle all the time (max players per day - min players per day).  MUSHes on the other hand, have way more swing, which means that most places are not populated by people who just idle for days at a time!

The best MUSH experience has always been on a game where you can get to personally know and be friends with a large chunk of the population.  For me, that means oh...15-60 regulars.  With 2700 players on MUSHes/MUXes alone, that's an awful lot of varied, active places to play.

Oh yeah, and while I already keep editing this post, I just wanna say I find it fascinating how many posters on these forums are familiar with Tapestries.

That said!  This place looks super impressive.  While I haven't connected yet, it reads like one of those places I always dreamed of making and never did, only it appears to be done /properly/ (and without the ATITD trappings I probably would have dumped into it).  Awesome.  You already blow Core out of the frickin' water (it's been my baseline for this kind of thing since forever).

[Android]

i am finding difficulty finding a fun point to this game.. i am trying to get inert metal, but i am told i need an expensive tool to get this, something like 1500 if i am not mistaken. Trying to sell stuff like lumber or fiber only gives 2 each. Sounds like a terrible grind to me.

[genmac]

i am finding difficulty finding a fun point to this game.. i am trying to get inert metal, but i am told i need an expensive tool to get this, something like 1500 if i am not mistaken. Trying to sell stuff like lumber or fiber only gives 2 each. Sounds like a terrible grind to me.

You start with a full spread of harvesting tools, including one for opening caverns, which I recommend doing in a mountain area if you want metal.

[Android]

i am finding difficulty finding a fun point to this game.. i am trying to get inert metal, but i am told i need an expensive tool to get this, something like 1500 if i am not mistaken. Trying to sell stuff like lumber or fiber only gives 2 each. Sounds like a terrible grind to me.

You start with a full spread of harvesting tools, including one for opening caverns, which I recommend doing in a mountain area if you want metal.

Already looked into this, there does not appear to be mountains.

[martinuzz]

Why is the command reference in Spanish or Portuegese? Can I change that to English?

[genmac]

i am finding difficulty finding a fun point to this game.. i am trying to get inert metal, but i am told i need an expensive tool to get this, something like 1500 if i am not mistaken. Trying to sell stuff like lumber or fiber only gives 2 each. Sounds like a terrible grind to me.

You start with a full spread of harvesting tools, including one for opening caverns, which I recommend doing in a mountain area if you want metal.

Already looked into this, there does not appear to be mountains.

Oh whups - I think there are one or two tiles on the starter planet that are mountain, but I added a few more manually on 17-EGRET. 

The spanish is something on the web client and will be english someday - we added some more help files so try checking the HELP index in the meantime.

[genmac]

The base database that I use to make Wayfar is officially cleaned up and available for download, thanks to hellmoo.org:

http://hellmoo.org/node/6328

It includes the source for the moo binary.  You need Linux!  It doesn't include any armor, weaponry, or items, but it does include combat and many useful features.  I've been enthused about this for a while - HellMOO was kind enough to give me a copy when I told them my idea, and there really are some serious advancements in the hellcore compared to anything you can google up and download.

And here's a couple screens:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I have two twitter followers.  One plays Wayfar.  The other one works for SpaceX.


I moved a lot of the basic/survival items to my take on IMPROVISE.  I want to reduce drudgery and item count at all times, so this reduces the materials for the things you'll need early on.  learn improvisation~

edit: As a swanky bonus, here is an offer for free MUD hosting on a stable server: http://zeno.biyg.org/

[beorn080]

Got into this myself. Amazing game. I know I'm necroing a bit, but this is worth it, especially considering where Hell and HATE have taken themselves lately. The crafting is very intuitive, just make a macro that sends 25 1's at a keypress if you don't want to worry about quality of the finished project. Seriously, the game is amazing, spent 3 days just fiddling about with crafting things.

[nate9090]

This is great! Having played HellMoo before this feels familiar, yet novel at the same time. For the last few hours I've really enjoyed the resource gathering and crafting, and yet I feel like I have barely scratched the surface.

If anyone else takes a look one thing that drove me nuts in my first 30 minutes was I could not figure out how to use the crafting tools. The help lists the command as: 'craft <something> <something> basic crafting tool'

Took me a bit to figure out it is 'craft <something> ON basic' etc.

Did a little facepalm when I figured it out. Hopefully this will save someone else the trouble though.

[Android]

i dont know, i played this for a few days about a month ago and I got really bored with the game.. the crafting was mind-numbing, and the combat required you to somewhat button mash.. I didnt care for it at all