Mudding

[LethalChicken]

Ok, if you know that term you are old ... well old in IT terms anyway :)

Any of you ever mud or still remember the olden days (1990's) of mudding?

I remember my first mud was a local version of LPMUD - was called Ultim8 if I remember correctly. You could get all the way to level 20 and once you got there you became a wizard and could start coding additions to the mud.

Those were the good old days when fun was free and a 56k connection could run about 5-10 mud clients ...

Well .. that was my nostalgia for the day ...

[diabolus]

I still mud btw :P Very cheap and free way to game on any connection and any crap pc :P Playing one called Clandestine and now and then one called Medievia. You can quickly see where today's MMORPGs got their stuff from :P

[martin]

Absolutely loved them. I guess I'm a fan of the old school. It really takes as much imagination as it does clock cycles to play those games.

[LethalChicken]

I must agree on the imagination part ... don't get me wrong I love todays MMORPGs and the graphics ... but reading through room descriptions had it's charm

[dablakmark8]

What are you talking about......Mud what ,its like you swearing or somthing.Tell me more about this.... :(

[diabolus]

http://xpertmud.sourceforge.net/images/tapp2.png

That's basically the idea :P Everytime i had explain it to someone they seem to totally get confused. The new generation just can't grasp such a concept of gaming :P

[Strobemeister]

Its amazing how things have changed. mudding was basically like reading a novel and adding your own bits. We're so used to good graphics now, i find myself getting irritated when i have to read a few paragraphs in an rpg when i could b bashing something instead, lol.

[killadoob]

lol

thats why i like fps online because i just wanna kill and shoot not build or break or watch things fight i wanna be there
action action action

reading? whats that

[AcidRaZor]

killadoob, how about you and me have a ut2004 deathmatch when my adsl is installed? :D

[Perdition]

I used to be an absolute MUD addict back in 1995/96, to the point where I was sitting at school and all I could think about was getting to 7 PM to get my fix :D

I used to play a MUD called Avatar, I think it's still going but it suffered from the same problem as others do when they get too large i.e. too much regulation and people only interested in "power-levelling" which kinda sucks the fun out of it.

[Roidster]

I have 2 words... Nethack! (err, one word)
Only discovered it a year ago, but its great fun :D
http://www.nethack.org/

Roidster