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hey guys im a hardcore old mudder looking to find a bbs that captures the old atmosphere and fun i miss...



i find that this requires one very special thing, and that is no afk scripting. preferably hand played.



this livens up the realm, i mean what better to do while resting than talk in gossip or telepath some friend or maybe try and get a boss run going...



you also know that since people are constantly at keys and trying to have fun, there is going to be more pvp going on, trying to get those limited that another character nabbed, planning an assassination because u know a player just trained and is on route to aged titan...



but i dont know about you guys, but fun isnt walking around with super huge characters and pounding the shit out of crazy monsters... i mean if u wanna rape some monsters, just get a level 10 warrior and kill giant rats... you will prolly 1 round them every time and be very satisfyed...



for those of you who dont care about being super powerful.. you all that u know that the midgame in mud is where the fun is at, im talking levels 15-35... thats where u get the most pvp over items, the boss runs, the most area selection for fighting. Having an AT KEY BBS helps this development, you still have to earn your characters levels. when u finally do make it to 50s u have a character with a background of boss runs, deathpile grabbing and a feel for the other characters in the realm...



of course, since majormud has such an outrageously high experience system, the mud would only really need to have a decent change of xp so that playing by hand isnt tedius... maybe give major bonus exp to bosses to encourage runs, or lots of exp given for pvp and whatnot...



ive yet to see a GOOD edited mud which doesnt rely on just monster experience, and for a hand played bbs, you dont want to sit killing the same monsters over and over for days, so maybe add a bit of spice to help level up people who want to travel and do interesting things



also getting rerolled isnt that big of a deal, when u can find a bbs with players u like, u can basically call it home and just have fun. maybe making it harder for characters to stay alive would be a good way to keep the bbs at medium experience rather than a short low level time, short mid time and then everyone bored sitting at 65 or whatever...







now i doubt i will find a bbs which can cater to these suggestions, but if any are willing, i know a bunch of people who would love to try out a realm like this...



unfortunately i dont have the software to attempt to run a bbs, but i would love to, so if u wanna see something like this up, and u have the software gimme an email at Xeeg@shaw.ca and maybe i can grab it off of you and set up a bbs designed for the old school mudder

actually now that i think about it, i could probably get a little group of people together, my friend is undertaking computer course at university, and my other friend just has alot of time on his hand...



if we could get the software to run a bbs, run majormud, and get a hex editor we could probably design hundreds of quests around the mud which will give exp and new items...



im still not sure how i would want to make the exp system for monsters and exp charts, but i would like to make it so that the quests are way more beneficial to do rather than just killing monsters in a certain area, while still keeping the players around average levels.



major efforts would be taken into making it very difficult to be high level, as it should be. but not nessesarily because it takes too much experience. i dont know how i can do this, but i know that having everyone be max level with all the good items taken and never moving is what kills most bbses, its no fun when there is no challenge and no hope for increase...



well i just smoked a bunch of joints, and just got back into mud like 4 days ago, but i know what im finding is not what i remember a being fun about mud, so please any helpful comments would be appreciated..

sorry, live boards have trouble staying up now that telnet is around. I mean, there are a few out there, not hex'd though. I know I don't have but about 20 minutes a day to play mud normally, and 20 minutes a day isn't nearly enough time to go on a boss run or anything. This goes for most people around here. You also have to take into account of time zones. Telnet gets you people from all over the world. While prime time to play might be between 9 and 10 pm (hypothetically), this time is different all around the world. The best way to get a live place to work out is to have 5-10 people per time-zone, especially in the US. I'm not knocking the idea, you will get all the help you need from me, I'm just letting you know that it's hard to get a live bbs going and popular. You can find all the software you need in these forums to start your own board. You don't need a hex editor, Xeeg. Swing by the nightmare forum and download Nightmare Redux. Syntax is the man, he made a VERY easy to use program that will help you out with everything you need to fix up a mud to your own liking. You can multiply the exp all monsters in one click. I can think of one idea off the top of my head to keep players from getting high level easily, put the higher level scripting areas in a place hard to get to, and make the level stack zero or one, whichever it is to let you only get exp to level. You can stick a few bosses outside the area so you have to get a group together to get to the high level scripting areas. The reason why I say scripting areas, is because you say no afk, but people still script on no-afk muds, megamud makes it easy. If you tell people they can't do that, you are going to get zero users. Blah blah, I'm babbling, but look in the forums and you can get all of the software you need to start your own game, and people are normally more than willing to help if you run into any problems.

You won't find live boards anymore...



If you did it would have to be about 50x+ to be anywhere near fun, but live-only bbs's would be shitty IMO, I'm live enough.

well if only can spend 20 mins a day to check on your script what is the damn point??



oh well, if anyone is interested in a high exp live bbs gimme an email so i can know how many people to expect, i want a very active high energy bbs so please anyone who is willing to give this a whirl, i know it will be worth it if we can get like 30 players that log in every day

damn I was going to read this thread but........I got high

well if only can spend 20 mins a day to check on your script what is the damn point??



oh well, if anyone is interested in a high exp live bbs gimme an email so i can know how many people to expect, i want a very active high energy bbs so please anyone who is willing to give this a whirl, i know it will be worth it if we can get like 30 players that log in every day

Yo Xeeg if u put one up...i'd play so count me in.

hrm ive been thinking about it and maybe i could pull it off with some sort of tournament...



still not sure on exp rate..



make 12 special items to be found throughout the realm, each one is no enc and if it is hidden at cleanup it will be reindexed and put in a new spot. Each character can only carry 2 special items at a time, and there can be max 6 in a gang... first gang to get all 12 wins...



also limiteds found hidden in a room at cleanup will be reindexed, and boss drop on first kill will not be 100%. characters that dont log on in say 4 days will be stripped of limited and special items.



i plan on getting the death rate to be high and no sys gotos or retrains or lives will be given... i want a really large realm to have lots of gangs at war for this tournament but i need to find people willing to play at keys and put in some effort to win this tournament...



pvp limit will be around 5 levels, with no gang houses allowed or people carrying items they will not be able to use for at least 10 levels. and i will try to find ways to make it so that the leveling up follows a steady rate rather than exponential increase... This will help make the at keys aspect a little more reasonable.



now for sake of giving the people who cannot be at keys every minute for a week to win this tourney, i really do want to make it so that people can get rerolled easily so any ideas on how i can make this possible would be great thanx...

Let me get this straight....



You're gonna make it so lims poof, items are a bitch to get and you can't hunt for them before you can use em, if your cable/dsl goes out for a few days, your puter breaks down or you have to run off on family emergency or something you get deleted, and you punish people for fighting bosses that they can't DEFINITELY kill with ease... All of this beyond the fact that since there's no scripting, you have to have no life if you wanna be anybody...



AND YOU THINK 30 PEOPLE ARE GONNA SHOW UP?!



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