/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1175352]

Anyone here playing MUDs?

[Anonymous No.1175420]

I tried MUDs for a while but most of them want you to roleplay in character and stuff and type up a backstory to join. fuck that noise

[Anonymous No.1175451]

>>1175420
>playing MUDs for anything other than roleplaying

[Anonymous No.1175565]

>>1175420
>>1175451
>MUDs will never suffer from the horrible playerbases of MMOs because of this effect

[Anonymous No.1175639]

Bump, I really want to play a MUD. Suggestions pls

[Anonymous No.1175679]

>>1175451
>>1175565
pffffffff whatever nerds. shame on me for wanting to have fun without having to type like a 12th century knight into my computer.

[Anonymous No.1175716]

>>1175679
>not wanting to be the knight

[Anonymous No.1175721]

>>1175716
that's so stupid knight with a limited spellbook

[Anonymous No.1175738]

>>1175420
You get light RPing and completely pretentious. I don't mind light RPing but if you're going to be a total faggot about who can and cannot be in your treehouse then keep your lonely world.

[Anonymous No.1176992]

>>1175738
The pretense in this case being that the fantasy world you're interacting with is real. Many MUDs require a minimum of adherence to this idea because it only takes one person to ruin it for everyone else, not because they want to be elitist or exclusionary. I hope everyone gives them at least an honest try without preconceptions.

[Anonymous No.1177017]

>>1176992
The problem is the level of pretentiousness.

I have seen people do 10 and 15 minute posts and DEMAND that everyone else in the M* do the same or GTFO. I'm sorry, posting just 3 times an hour is not my cup of tea.

Seriousy, WTF, man? These people aren't even posting an actual description of what their character is doing. They are describing the scenery, metagaming, and sometimes even filling in YOUR PART (god moding) instead of just describing one action and hitting send.

And that's why I don't do MU*s anymore.

[Anonymous No.1177038]

>>1177017
What I'm trying to make a case for is simple "always be in-character" requirements. What you're describing just sounds like people being jerks.

[Anonymous No.1177072]

>>1177038
I don't mind when people are always in character. The problem is that it frequently devolves into the 10 and 15 minute post garbage. The worst part is that these folks think they are the absolute pinnacle of roleplaying and in-character skill and either chase away everyone who isn't a total jerk like they are or force otherwise normal folks to also do crap 10 minute posts in order to avoid ridicule.

They also are the same players who leave their characters online 24-7 even if they aren't online which clogs the screen with idle folks, making it harder to find people to play with. When they do come online they fill the screen with their crap posts, which further kills any actual roleplaying going on.

Does the game have a post limit to try to stop this? They put [continuing] at the end of the post and keep on writing. Does the game time out when you don't post or move for 10 minutes? They use bots to keep things active while typing. Try to tell them they're slow, metagaming godmoders and they will baww about how they aren't and that you just SUCK at roleplaying.

The longer an MU is around the more of the idiots always show up. The only places I have seen this not happen is in pockets with dedicated GMs, and those are dead whenever the GM is not online. Even with GMS we still get the issue of the Mary Sue and Power Gamers! Good luck kicking them all out.

Sticking to tabletop for sanity's sake... it's the best thing I can think of until someone finds a way to kill twinks, godmoders, mary dues, powergamers, and metagmaers via game mechanics that said jerks can't circumvent.

[Anonymous No.1177078]

No because I have sex.

[Anonymous No.1177081]

>>1177078
Don't lie.

[Anonymous No.1177086]

>>1177017
It sounds like you want to play HellMOO.

It's basically a Fallout MUD. Modern-day technology, radiation everywhere, guns and drugs, and a surprisingly deep combat system.

As for the roleplaying aspects...

People do roleplay, but they're not retarded about it. Nobody para's (if you've played more than a handful of MUD's you probably know what this means) in HellMOO.

[Anonymous No.1177102]

>>1177086
I never felt comfortable with HellMOO, role-playing getting raped was too much for me.

[Anonymous No.1177120]

>>1177086
Yeah, I didn't want to scare off non-MU* players with crazy jargon. Para is ok when well-written. MULTIpara is when all hell breaks loose. Multiline/Semipara is best, IMHO.

I thought about HellMoo but am not 100% sold on it. I saw this in a help site:
>yiff thing
...does this mean there are furries all over or is this a joke?

[Anonymous No.1177136]

>>1177120
There are fursuits in HellMOO, but nobody uses them, and they're really only in the game as a joke.

There's a lot of other sex-related commands though. Fuck, Assfuck, Suck, Titfuck, Jerkoff, and maybe others.

Warning: Serious HellMOO players tend to look down on people who are openly sexual. If you want to sexhave, do it behind closed doors. And stay the hell out of Hellfire.

[Anonymous No.1177160]

>>1177136
>Reads manual
> Hellfire Sex Club. Stay out.
Is that due to the stigma of being into tinysex, because Hellfire is rape central, or something else?

[Anonymous No.1177350]

>>1177160
It's because there's a small minority of players who play ONLY for the sex content (called "sexhavers"), and they frequently visit Hellfire, because that's what Hellfire is for. It's like the sexhaver hookup place.

And the serious HellMOO players don't like sexhavers.

Also important to note: HellMOO has televisions. They can be tuned to a variety of in-game TV stations, one of which is a live feed of Hellfire. That's right, when you go to Hellfire, anyone online could be watching you. And there are players who will camp in front of a TV and wait for people to enter Hellfire, then run in and kill them.

HellMOO players are assholes. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

[Anonymous No.1178832]

I go back and play Ancient Anguish every now and then. SWMud had me playing for awhile too. I fell in love with the space/ships part of the game, but they stopped development of that, not knowing how to code it.

I don't like the always-in-character style.

AA has seen countless hours into many characters. Also where I met a GF I ended up living with for awhile.

[Anonymous No.1178858]

If I wanted to roleplay, I'd play tabletop/LARP.

A mixture of puzzle solving and light combat is fine, though.

[Anonymous No.1179121]

Oooh, a MUD thread.

My HellMOO character.

[Anonymous No.1179956]

What
I thought this MUD got shutdown

[Anonymous No.1180025]

When I'm playing a MUD it takes me 500 years to decide how I want my character described as
>A girl with straight black her that has seen better days, a pungent aroma emits from her
>"No that's too generic!"

[Anonymous No.1180036]

are there scifi muds?

[Anonymous No.1180038]

>>1180036
Yes.

[Anonymous No.1180043]

>>1177102
>you will never fondle an eleven year old's developing chest ;_;

[Anonymous No.1180053]

>>1175738
>and nothing of value was lost

[Anonymous No.1180058]

How did they know?

[Anonymous No.1180064]

>>1180058
sup Blainly

[Anonymous No.1180070]

>>1180058
There are no girls on the internet. Now imagine how much more that applies to MUDs.

[Anonymous No.1180089]

>>1180070
>no girls on le intarwebz XD

I only know two people in real life who play a MUD, and they're both women.

[Anonymous No.1180114]

>>1180064
How did you know?

[Anonymous No.1180151]

>>1180114
>How did you know?
If you type "who" it shows a list of everyone online. And newly created characters who haven't gone through character generation have an "n" next to their name.

>54Ernest
Ugh, hate that guy.

[Anonymous No.1180172]

>>1179121

[Anonymous No.1180184]

I used to play achaea a long time ago, played several others before that not that I can remember their name

[Anonymous No.1180239]

>>1180172
>Battle Angel Alita

Awesome. That's a great manga, and I feel like HellMOO has a really similar atmosphere to it.

HellMOO doesn't really have cyborgs per se, but it does have robots.

[Anonymous No.1180792]

>>1180114
>not sucking his dick

[Anonymous No.1180795]

>>1180038
any good ones?

[Anonymous No.1181728]

>>1180795
Well, HELLmoo seems to be highly praised in this thread

[Anonymous No.1181864]

Obligatory.

[Anonymous No.1181871]

>playing Achaea
>everyone is friendly
>everyone is roleplaying
>join a guild, a member takes me on a tour
>he's so good at it I'm convinced he's an NPC

>having to study texts to advance in the guild

It's heaven.

[Anonymous No.1181924]

>>1181871
I noticed you said guild and not house. Was this some time ago? I wonder if things are still as nice.

[Anonymous No.1181959]

>>1181871
That was pure hell trying to read the gray and gray text until I disabled the transparent background effect. Seriously why would they put a gradient bloom of white on black right behind one side of gray text...

[Anonymous No.1181975]

MUD1?

[Anonymous No.1181980]

Shalom! I am a level 102 Jewish Paladin and I hail from the land of hobbits.

[Anonymous No.1181978]

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[Anonymous No.1181991]

>>1177136
I'm going to play this and "jerkoff" right in the open.

if they ban me somehow i'll just ddos the hell out of them

[Anonymous No.1181992]

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[Anonymous No.1182028]

>>1182026
That's about everything I have on MUD1. Kind of interesting since it was the first real online RPG.

[Anonymous No.1182040]

>>1182024
>nicey wicey insecure "omg there are grills on teh internet and also guys who pretend to be grills!!" bullshit

This supports my theorem that while it may have been more literate on the whole, pre-Eternal-September web wasn't really any better than it is now.

[Anonymous No.1182063]

>>1182028
>fine print at bottom
>SUD is single-user dungeon

[Anonymous No.1182091]

>>1182063
The 90's flashbacks are always full of win.

Thanks for the old magazine, anon.

[Anonymous No.1182162]

>>1182040
what are you even quoting?

[Anonymous No.1182181]

>>1182063
It's kind of funny because I don't even see the term "SUD" used anywhere in the article.

[Anonymous No.1183848]

>>1182040
what

[Anonymous No.1184228]

Been working on a simple MUD framework as a project to learn network programming. Maybe I'll even finish it one day.

[Anonymous No.1185982]

>>1182162
>>1183848
Guys. Guys.

Greentext isn't just for quotes. He was paraphrasing the article, because the guy was so fixated and corny regarding the issue of player gender.

[Anonymous No.1186162]

>>1185982
That wasn't fixated. What we're doing now is fixated.

[Anonymous No.1187914]

>>1185982
what

[Anonymous No.1189504]

anyone play dragonrealms back in the day?

[Anonymous No.1189529]

Is there something like this but with cyberpunk theme?

[Anonymous No.1189656]

>>1182181
We call them "interactive fiction" nowadays.
http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page

[Anonymous No.1189702]

>>1189656
I don't think anyone asked what they were referring to, he just stated that they're defining a term in a footnote that isn't even used in the article.

[Anonymous No.1189715]

>>1189702
So I'm a second level footnote.

[Anonymous No.1190789]

I play Materia Magica sometimes

[Anonymous No.1190805]

>>1190789
I played it around 2003, it's a fun one. I remember it having lots of neat mechanics.

[Anonymous No.1191540]

>>1175679
>type like a 20th century sex slave being dominated in poorly dressed in 12 century garb to a 47 year old sysadmin pretending to be a fiery redhead dominatrix but is really the sysop into my computer.

It's actually pretty much like every-other MMO except you'll get abused and banned by the sysops more often and you won't be playing a furry panda with a troll with a blue and purple Mr. T haircut.

[Anonymous No.1191547]

>>1180114
If you're going to use what appears to be 80 column, why not just make your text large instead of having half a blank screen?

[Anonymous No.1191567]

>playing HellMOO for about three months
>have over $200,000, two planes, and a yacht

This game really isn't as unforgiving as everyone says it is. You just need to be a little bit street-smart, and watch your back in "seedy" places where the PK'ers like to hunt.

[Anonymous No.1192831]

>2011
>not making your own MUD

[Anonymous No.1193064]

>>1192831
I'm going to be needing sauce on that

[Anonymous No.1193109]

>>1193064
MUD Game Programming by Ron Penton

[Anonymous No.1194440]

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[Anonymous No.1194538]

>>1194440
>A&M logo
>laughingraiders.exe