SLOTHmud officially down, I guess. . .
Dan Brumleve
>I had a really great character named Vox on SLothmud at Bovina.cs.utexas.edu
>4000. . . .
>Unfortunately the machine on which the mud runs seems to have died, it used
>to just time out my connections, but now it has finally been classified as
>an "unknown host".
>I just wanted to say to the gods who ran it that it was definately the most
>fun I've ever had on a mud.
>It had a great feature that rental was FREE!!! I think this is great, because
>since players are less concerned with item hoarding and money grubbing to pay
>rental fees the whole attitude on the mud is nicer and less greedy.
>Are there any other Muds out there with free rental? also can someone
>reccomend me a good mud to start over on? any of my buds on Sloth (Balrog
>Poseiden fireforge) drop me a line and let me know where you play now.
>And I do think the gods should have posted a "were closed" note instead
>of leaving it to us to figure it out.
>Vox
Free rent really isn't as good an idea as it seems. After a few months of
free rent on the old JudyMUD, the inflation went overboard. 5th level
characters carried around billions (literally) of coins, and had the best
equipment in the game. I myself managed to play a thief (on a MUD where
stealing from plyers is disabled (bleh), thereby making skills such as
hide and sneak useless since everyone is so nice) up to 13th level within
a few hours of playing time. It got rather boring (after about 10 hours
playing time) and I eventually decided to give away my character's items
(and the items belonging to the 5 storage characters I had accumulated).
This is by no means an attempt to flame JudyMUD, which was a very good MUD
aside from the abundance of equipment and ultra-powerful characters.
I managed
Michael H Cole
Dan Brumleve
>I managed
Ack! How did "I managed" wind up at the bottom of my post? I'm sure I didn't
write it there...