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Re: Welcome to Armageddon: On MUDs (2017)

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Post by genericone » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 4:18 AM UTC

DragonSwords, the mud to play twenty years ago from hyperterminal at a public library.

Re: Welcome to Armageddon: On MUDs (2017)

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Post by lylecubed » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 4:19 AM UTC

mikemuds wrote: post #13

lylecubed wrote: post #5

My favorite mud I played heavily during the 90s, AstroMUD, is still going strong. It's a pale shadow of its former self, but it's still there.

What was your character name there? I was Monkey and I played around 94-96. Did you ever play Bluemage or ExtremeMUD?

Blur. I played from 97-04. I never played Bluemage or ExtremeMUD. The only other muds I played were a bunch of Star Wars permadeath muds and a few wheel of time ones.

Re: Welcome to Armageddon: On MUDs (2017)

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Post by xedrac » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 6:02 AM UTC

There were so many MUDs back in the 90s. I was an avid ShadowLands player myself. My interest in programming grew tremendously when I downloaded the source for DikuMUD and CircleMUD and started tweaking things. It didn't take long to turn into an outright passion.

Re: Welcome to Armageddon: On MUDs (2017)

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Post by jcrben » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 9:57 AM UTC

I've been the crime boss of Armageddon multiple times since I started playing in high-school around 2005. Most recently created a character in 2016 after a 5-year break. Back to a break, prolly for longer this time.

Duties include shaking down noble houses, bribing law enfocement, and executing assassination contracts.

Re: Welcome to Armageddon: On MUDs (2017)

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Post by axilmar » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 3:07 PM UTC

It's so amazing that MUDs can create such a magical atmosphere to be in! such an atmosphere that it has never been captured by MMORPGs ever!!!

I have never played a MUD game but it seems terrifyingly addictive...

Re: Welcome to Armageddon: On MUDs (2017)

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Post by trentlott » Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 4:00 AM UTC

sianns wrote: post #20

jerrysievert wrote: post #6

I remember armageddon! I was a "god" there due to my work on a couple of other popular muds (Epic and SillyMUD), but was likely better known there for taking up the challenge of building a character there and seeing how fast I could kill everyone in alphabetic (and then reverse-alphabetic) order. the challenge became easy with two things: 1) you could set your "title" to anything you wanted, as long as you included y…

Batmud. Batmud.org.za All the rest pale by comparison.

Somehow I expected a Batman MUD.