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Re: The Two Towers MUD

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Post by stavros »

scbrg wrote: post #47

I owe my career in programming to a MUD. That's really where I learned to code (mainly by staring at and trying to debug tonnes of really bad code other clueless newbies like myself had written). That it turn, got me a spot as a sort of hang-around at a local ISP/consultancy shop whose staff intersected a lot with the people running the MUD. They eventually decided to hire me when a suitable contract showed up. All i…

I'm the same, but from the other side. I learned to code clients/bots that would play the MUD. I had a fantastic fighting script, that basically fought optimally, one that used two characters at the same time to solve some complicated maze, and I even wrote a headless bot runner that was compatible with the files of the MUD client I used.

It was all great fun, and I also owe my extensive regex experience to it.

Re: The Two Towers MUD

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Post by veiviseren »

xedrac wrote: post #5

I haven't played a MUD in the last 25 years, but I think I would enjoy playing this one if I had time. In some ways MUDs were much more fun than modern games. I wonder what codebase it derives from.

I coded for/built/scripted dozens of MUDs in my teens, the Two Towers the first one I played, possibly visited hundreds of these servers around the time my peers were on WoW, my first builder role was writing emote string patterns and room descriptions for the cooling tanks of a space station in a Star Wars MUD and I learned about OOP implementing a mob, combat, pathfinding, and crafting systems atop a python 2.4 engine my classmate gave me on a CD rom

out of the all the MUDs from that era I think the most noteworthy was Assault, which was a Merc derivative mod with a top down map for real time strategy base defense, active around 2006 then disappeared into obscurity, and very wild in a pre-Dwarf Fortress era

Re: The Two Towers MUD

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Post by anthk »

I play Cybersphere from time to time. If you played Shadowrun/Shadowrun 2058 on the MD/Genesis (or the tabletop RPG) you'll be at home.

Re: The Two Towers MUD

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Post by anthk »

topato wrote: post #26
qmr wrote: post #14

Wasted so many of my tween, teen, and 20s years here. ... And a bit of my 30s. Still play now and then. Got a friend into it too. Great way to game in a terminal window at work. Check out KBtin MUD client!

It's never a waste to play terminal games/nethack during class or work! Bonus points if you pass the class or get paid/don't get fired!

Slashem with the Doppleganger Monk class/role it's a beast.

Re: The Two Towers MUD

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Post by 0xEF »

teroshan wrote: post #53

As someone that never touched a MUD (but plenty of ASCII roguelikes), I see that MUD clients are recommended [1] to be used. Any other clients I should be looking at, for this particular MUD but also others? Are they generic enough to be used with multiple games? [1] https://t2tmud.org/clients.php

I also like Mudlet and KildClient, but it's really best of you try a few and decide which works best for your tastes and needs. Blowtorch is still the go-to client if you want to play via Android mobile, last I checked. And you can always just straight up connect via telnet/ssh using your favorite terminal emulator if you want to keep things really simple and exercise your skills with graph paper.

Re: The Two Towers MUD

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Post by anthk »

DonHopkins wrote: post #33
astronads wrote: post #2

Anyone out there still playing MUDs? Any good ones to recommend?

Professor Richard Bartle recently retired, but he regularly assigned his students to play MUD2 in his Computer Game Design and Virtual Worlds classes at the University of Essex! He and Michael Lawrie co-created the original MUD1 at Essex in 1978. https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/BARTL01006/Richard-Bartle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bartle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_Virtual_Worlds https://www.mud.…

Hey Don, you would like "The Computational Beauty of Nature". In the end, Lisp/math axioms maybe define the world themselves recursively. We are running eval/apply forever...

Re: The Two Towers MUD

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Post by 0xEF »

girvo wrote: post #23
bokchoi wrote: post #18

I spent many hours hogging the phone line to play btech 3056 back in high school. It was so cool talking to people all over the world. I wasn't very good at the actual game, however. I do remember encountering a bug where I was placed on a level-4 high building and I couldn't get off of it because my mech wouldn't let me intentionally fall.

There was a Battletech MUD??? That's so cool :) MechWarrior 2 is what got me into it as a kid

I believe it's still around, or at least some variants or other Battletech MUDs are. Check these out; https://www.sarna.net/wiki/MUX

Re: The Two Towers MUD

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

nvader wrote: post #44

If we are talking MUDs, I have to plug the Discworld MUD, https://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/ I spent a lot of time on there growing up. Based on the copious writings of Terry Pratchett, it's full of whimsy and humor but also quite addicting and deep gameplay. It seems to have a pretty active player base, too.

That's weird, I don't think I've ever been on there before but it says "Welcome Mishra", linking to https://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/secure/finger.c?player=.... A cookie is set with name User and value "mishra-1".

Is this some kind of session leaking or does it automatically generate a user for you?

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