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

 

[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

 

[kronoSX]

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 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

 

[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

 

[guest2013-1]

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

 

[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

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
http://www.nethack.org/

Roidster