Don't Play in the Arm of the Dragon.

What? You're way off. Armageddon is over twenty years old, although its early years were a bit murky (the same is true of Harshlands and most other pre-modern MU*s). ArmageddonMUD was founded in 1991, it predates Harshlands by a number of years and Shadows of Isildur by over a decade. 

That's ridiculous. You can't date a game based on when some arbitrary acronym was invented to describe it. The games did not come into existence when somebody thought of calling them RPIs. That tag was invented because there was now more than one game fitting the description, with Armageddon being the first. I can't believe this is something that needs to be explained to you, the owner of an RPI discussion site. Harshlands is the only one that even comes close to matching Armageddon's age, Arm had been a full-fledged RPI (whether or not the term was coined by then) for many years by the time SoI was founded.

Arm was a hack'n'slash MUD in the very beginning only, not for years and years. Harshlands was also pretty flimsy in its infancy.

What do you mean, different timeline? We're not talking archaeology here. We're not carbon-dating the games.

It's a moot point either way as to what came first.

Armageddon has been a long-standing pillar in the RPI community for around two decades.

They should have higher standards for staff emotes, at the very least.

again he targeted npc halfgiants (not a specific animated one) as a problem that should be resolved. second, macros allow a lot of shit to stack and unless u change the entire coded dynamic of pve/pvp combat then wont a damn thing make a difference

and ur damn righ theyre doing that and for a good ass reason. any pker whether lawbacked or lawless is going to cover their ass by stacking an emote or two with their attack syntax so that they can maximize their ability to accomplish their goal w/o getting pegged as a non-rp robot by staff (btw thinks and feels can cover this too).

if staff are trying to codedly get shit done im not angry at them for doing the same shit players do (speed up their expo) while getting shit done

I don't know what Jeshin's smoking but, I want some. Armageddon was definitely the first RPI and it was kinda a big deal. I came along around 1995-1996 and learned about it through isca bbs, which was also kind of a big deal and Arm had been established a few years before that. I had to apply for my first character, which was unheard of, but it was highly recommended from friends on isca and my college's role playing group. It was a mud where you could role play, also unheard of, because every other mud was hack and slash.

Now my timeline might get a little hazy from here, because collegeweedmudgeekgirl heaven, but I'm sure in general it's right. Around 1998 Armageddon got hacked and was down for at least six months. Harsh lands opened up and most of the players from arm went over to play Harshlands and Harshlands was very barebones. Armageddon was light years ahead code wise. For a little while the imms from arm opened up an older version for us to play on and it was vastly different from the then current Armageddon, it made you respect how much work went into modifying the code. At the same time it makes you laugh at how little it's improved since 1998, and actually it ran better back then.

Anyway, there were other RPIs even before harshlands:, Mirtos, Jade Cross, Hatijar, but they didn't last. That's because Arm was the shit, none of them had a player base like Armageddon. During peak, sometimes you had to wait in a queue just to play.

That's enough of a history lesson. It definitely was the first of its kind and its success hasn't been duplicated. It's just sad to see what happened to it. It hasn't really improved in all these years and I wouldn't even call the culture of the mud role play intensive anymore. It definitely set the tone though.

Yeah jeshin shut the fuck up you bitch