[the_old_crowd] Re: Retro-game (OT)

[silmariel]

> Talisman:
> For many of his teen years one of my now grown sons was immersed in
> a MUD called Return of the Shadow.
>
> He would beat it and then create a new player and beat it again.  I
> recall one of his auxillary characters who was very strong but had a
> pea-brain--impervious to psychic attack!
>

We are a bunch of irreverent game staff and are planning to create the 'Disney 
Princess' profession - evolves into different princesses, like a pokemon. 
I've got one of the programmers making the Tardis (he's a fan of Dr. Who). As 
there are only a handfull of MUDs in Spanish, we are in the top ten, because 
all our areas are original.

I mainly rule the Mud by omission - as do not remember which one of the 
Archicancillers of the Unseen University, if no one tells me, it is not 
important - and distribute orders in case the staff comes with a problem or 
wants an opinion, but I usually am not there, I've discovered they are quite 
competent on their own and the general politics are clear.

> Along with the imaginative pleasures of the text, there was the
> additional social interaction--established local friends and new
> online pals--girls included. Lots of fun teaming up to defeat the
> Pale Lady or share the spoils of war, etc.
>

I agree, a Mud differs radically from chats and from massive online games. 
Users mostly know each other, and they hang in the same Muds for years, so 
the ambient isn't the jungle Internet can be, and there are known means to 
make a mud more attractive for girls, as offering houses (the user can create 
the furniture and house objects, as the description of the house). The 
cooperative factor is a pleasure, though I don't usually play.

> Ewe2 writes:
>
> It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a penguin.
>
> Talisman:
> Well, Happy New Year! <veg>


I was eaten by a penguin long ago, it doesn't hurt. Happy New Year!

Silmariel