AthasMUD

I manually activated everyone. I think I missed port 25 when I set up the firewall so the emails just got stuck.

Hey guys, just came up with some really cool lore for elves!

All elven tribes were wiped out thousands of years ago due to natural selection. Turns out, proud kleptomaniacs don't get along with very many people. Now, there are only humans. Conflict is created via clans and roleplay, not shitty race docs. There are no special half-breed snowflakes, just the losers in (insert that one clan that promotes degenerate snowflakes, giving people like anaiah and grumble a place to congregate without creating a whole race for just them to play).

It worked in Atonement.

We've got some really nice discussion going on the development of the MUD on our forums. Feel free to participate/lurk if you want. www.athasmud.com/SMF

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Further, the race docs in Arm are specifically engineered to be shitty.

EDIT: Delerak has some good racial helpfiles on his mud.

good luck vintrius this seems like a strong project with good vision.

just my two cents and armchair perspective, but i think you'd be fine starting small before going into open beta. things like automated apartments and wild talents are cool, but you're adding them in before the game reaches equilibrium so it's going to be difficult to gauge the isolated impact of them. judging apartment pricing, for example, is going to be tough until players start coming in and you can see how much the average player makes and how you want to price housing. players are going to break the economy (and probably the combat system) and i think you'll save yourself from having to revisit design decisions like that if you wait until you have that data available.

i think closed betas can be tricky -- you have people playing and trying out the game, but they want other people in as well. that's a big motivation to me at least for participation. closed betas tend to run based on hype and player enthusiasm, and drawing it out any longer than it has to be can cause problems down the line as well as make it difficult to recruit other people who can alleviate the workload. i think you should reconsider some of the 'must be done before open beta' list. in particular the moon cycles, in-depth work on weather, etc. they're nice features but will have little impact on how players play the game.