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[jarandhel]

A few years back, my favorite Mud split in two, both claiming to be the original. I didn't know about it at the time, I wasn't playing. When I finally did go back to it, I chose a side in the split, following my favorite immortal. Then another hiatus. Now, I've tried going back... the split with my favorite immortal no longer exists. It's been defunct for a while now, apparently. The "original" mud still does, though much of it has changed and IMO not for the better. I could keep playing on it, but honestly the spark that was once there is gone. The few minor technical improvements are greatly outweighed by some rather idiotic changes (newbie equipment, for example, has become so good that it's almost impossible to find better equipment before you reach clan levels at the very earliest. And a great many high-level weapons and armor are available in various shops in the main city to simply be bought now. And whole areas that I loved are simply gone.)

This is a Mud that I was addicted to for a long time. A Mud that I managed to play at times in school in non-computer-oriented classes, I was so obsessed with it. It being gone.... kinda hurts. I know that's silly, but it does.

Guess I'm in the market for a new Mud... perhaps I'll try the discworld mud again, though not having read the books does make things a bit harder for me to follow...

Then again, there's always DominiaMud... though I still haven't figured out major parts of that Mud, and I've been playing it longer than Ansalon.

Or perhaps it's time to try something entirely new... decisions, decisions...

Comments

[vashti.livejournal.com]

Discworld MUD's always worth another try. Although I'm firmly ensconced in WoW at the moment, I don't think I can quite imagine DW not being there for me to go back to. Oh dear.

[fishy1.livejournal.com]

should you acquire the desire to read the Discworld novels (they go really fast), we have them to lend.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Is the mud going to make any sense to me if I've never read the books?

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I think I'd like that very much. Thank you. :)

[vashti.livejournal.com]

Many people play who've never read the books; the world is more or less complete in itself, and learning as you go is no harder than learning about any other world.

What you gain from having read the books is depth: knowing that this is where x happened, that NPC did y in the books, this quest is repeating what character a did in book b.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

I tried playing it for a little while the other evening, but the system is very alien to what I'm used to. I'm also trying out Realms of Despair, which runs on the parent codebase that Ansalon was modified from.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

I'm also giving some serious thought to trying my hand at making my own mud derived from the Dikumud, Merc, Rom 2.4b, and/or Smaug codebases somewhat in the spirit of Ansalon, though with a different setting and not trying to emulate all the same features.