Quoting: liamdaweThe troll example game has been moved to here. It also has quite a number of changes since the initial test game ;)

Cut to 5 years later.....

@Liam
Hey gang.
Dev Update 3578 is out.
Samsai fixed Syntax errors in the Deer AI in the Desert biome.
The Plasma rifle now has fire speed increased by 0.40 and damage up per class type.
Mesa optimized and working with Nvidia to improve dual card performance.
Dynamic shadows causing frame drop resolved.
Server population currently at 100k strong during weekdays.
Taking the Bentley for a spin.

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Quoting: Crystal Dagger

Quoting: razing32I did hear of aardwolf.
Was asking on a few MUD sites when I wanted to remotely login to my Pi from work and play MUDS try MUDs in my spare
time
Might finally give it a go.
And your English was very good ;-)

Let me know if you try one, I'm curious to give one a try now... so I can totally not slack more at work and home.

AardWolf, BatMUD, SlothMUD, Achaea? It is hard to pick one! I wonder if the server being in the USA REALLY matters on this games if you live in Europe...

Hmmm , tell you what. May give Aardwolf a go this weekend.
Don't think the connection is that sensitive to the US.
I had Skype calls to phone numbers with US friends and had no issues/lag etc.

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Quoting: NanobangDammit! Why am I not playing this game? I own it. I've set up a Steam Controller config for it. I've fooled around with it. But I haven't ever settled in and begun playing it!

I'm just gonna plead alien abduction.

Do aliens kidnap penguins now ?

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I liked the story and atmosphere.
Can;t say I take Liam's side on the whole politically correct thing , but then again I am getting old and I have no idea what teens are like.

One thing that does irk me was the way they built a very beautiful mystery suspense without giving details and drawing me in and then the reveal is cliche. I won't spoil , but it just felt like you were building up some cool parasitic creature like Alien and then explain it away like Vampires !!!. It just felt let down.
Still , if you don't mind lack of gameplay , and don't mind doing some backtracking to collect all the easter eggs to get he good ending , a definitive recommendation on my part.

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Heh , that's kinda fun.

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Quoting: AryvandaarHevn is vengeance in Norwegian.

Is this one of those things that spoils the premise ? :(

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Quoting: Crystal Dagger

Quoting: razing32OK , curios now.
What would you recommend to a complete n00b of MUDs ?

How unforgiving are they and how time consuming (compared to a MMO RPG) ?

I haven't played much MUDs mainly because they aren't "from my time", I wish I would give a good effort to get into one because I'm sure they are great. I've known plenty of people that have played them and I've even tried them myself a little so I hope that I can reply your question.

From what I've heard they give you very unforgiving memories since a good side of MUDs is that you use your imagination (just like reading a book) and you generate a mental construct, so, in a way, your brain creates the "graphics" the way you want them to be. I've seen some graphical MUDs with really simple and static graphics, ascii maps, maybe an avatar, etc.

Secondly the "time consuming" aspect varies a lot depending on the MUD as far as I'm aware, some might be very punishing, sandboxy, etc while others are not as much, just like the vast variety of mmos you got like 5-10 years ago when they were "a thing". An MMO that gets quite often compared with a MUD is Wurm Online (which works on Linux, I highly recommend it since I play it on a daily basis lol).

Also, I've been told (not really sure about this but I can imagine that it is true) there are MUDs were you can literally do anything and I mean ANYTHING you can imagine, making look open-world sandbox MMOs look like nothing.

Last but not least the communities there are "old" and by old I mean mature, so the chances of finding that "special snowflake" or a raging "kid" are lower, but you'll surely will come across someone eventually I'm sure...

The first one that comes to my memory is Aardwolf, it has been around for a long time - http://www.aardwolf.com/ [External Link]

pd: Sorry for the long reply and my English...

I did hear of aardwolf.
Was asking on a few MUD sites when I wanted to remotely login to my Pi from work and play MUDS try MUDs in my spare
time
Might finally give it a go.
And your English was very good ;-)

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Quoting: Mountain ManGoG has had a Linux version of Planescape Torment for some time. It's a Wine wrapper, but it works perfectly.

Couldn't you technically install it with GOG installer and then load the files into GemRB ?

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OK , curios now.
What would you recommend to a complete n00b of MUDs ?

How unforgiving are they and how time consuming (compared to a MMO RPG) ?

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Sounds more complete than a lot of the crap that made it to steam via Greenlight vote groups.
May check it out.

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