Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2019 15:31:18 GMT -5
His butthole is being explored in Harshlands, no?
|
|
|
|
Post by shakes on Oct 31, 2019 15:58:43 GMT -5
In a non-Euclidean fashion.
|
|
faroukel
Displaced Tuluki
What's a story without a villain?
Posts: 201 
|
Post by faroukel on Oct 31, 2019 18:54:01 GMT -5
Lol. Solid.
Truth on all counts.
|
|
|
|
Post by shakes on Oct 31, 2019 19:52:57 GMT -5
I really like the Harshlands code. It looks great and I would like to use it for a mud I'm trying to pull together.
BUT the abysmal zone design makes me crazy, as well as some of the setting design choices they made being just frustrating for no reason.
I remember logging on and there being like 3 people showing up on the Who list. I'm out in the wilderness and someone rides up with a bunch of NPC guards, tells me they're a noble of this or that and demands I stop poaching in their lands. Then they told me I had to stack rocks for RL hours on some road they were having built.
I knuckled my brow and when they rode off I went back to poaching. Then a rabbit bit me in the arm, it became infected, I couldn't figure out how to heal it and logged off forever.
|
|
delerak
GDB Superstar
PK'ed by jcarter
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." - Otto Von Bismarck
Posts: 1,670
|
Post by delerak on Oct 31, 2019 20:16:01 GMT -5
I mean harshlands is based off DIKU so it will feel very similar to Arm either way. Same for SOI and all those. 90% of muds are based off DIKU for a reason, it's a solid solid codebase when it is barebones and was designed by way smarter people than any of the hobbyist programmers that usually frequent muds.
|
|
|
|
Post by shakes on Oct 31, 2019 20:17:55 GMT -5
There's also hundreds of Diku derivatives available out there AND plug-and-play parts that people have posted in various places for inclusion into your own custom Diku codebase. It maintains its popularity also because it's popular.  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2019 20:18:55 GMT -5
Is the bootleg Armageddon still a thing? Are there people working on it?
|
|
|
|
Post by shakes on Oct 31, 2019 20:22:58 GMT -5
Is the bootleg Armageddon still a thing? Are there people working on it? Not me. I looked at it and decided that, if I wanted to go with an Armageddon-style setting, I could have a brand new codebase up and running a lot faster than I could retro-engineer that cobbled together thing. But I'm still relatively sold on my Mouse Guard idea. If I ever find the time ... |
|
faroukel
Displaced Tuluki
What's a story without a villain?
Posts: 201
|
Post by faroukel on Nov 1, 2019 8:16:28 GMT -5
I think an important thing to call out about HL design, is that it's literally built to canon. ![]()  Like the city of Tashal is designed off the canon map. Almost to a tee with little variation. The whole game is like that. Harn has a whole swathe of materials for tabletop RPG, detailed to an autistic level, down to maps, what shops are in a settlement, who runs them, what kind of pricing they have, et cetera, et cetera, thats all built into Harshlands. |
|
|
|
Post by shakes on Nov 1, 2019 16:17:14 GMT -5
There are numerous places that, when mapping, you could not go north, and then back south and end up in the room you came from.
That was absolutely crazy-making to me.
|
|
faroukel
Displaced Tuluki
What's a story without a villain?
Posts: 201
|
Post by faroukel on Nov 1, 2019 20:52:37 GMT -5
Dont think Ive experienced that...you or I must've been high. (moneys on me)
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 21:15:24 GMT -5
There are things I've done in the game that indirectly caused entries in the history page. People sometimes talk about it and I'm thinking to myself,"God. I was really high that day. No impulse control. No fear for my characters life. Just chasing down the lulz."
|
|
|
|
Post by shakes on Nov 1, 2019 23:18:10 GMT -5
Dont think Ive experienced that...you or I must've been high. (moneys on me) I complained about it on that staff help channel they have and they told me it's only that way in certain wilderness areas that are older. But I didn't give it another try. Someday I may get sick of Arm (or Arm gets sick of me) and give it another go. |
|
