Before you EQ'd your WoWage into a RIFT, did you used to MUD?

Played alot of LP and Diku muds back in college. but nowhere near the time I spent on Netrek. I joined the Draft League for several seasons. PGL get off my lawn..

Just as I was getting into the netrek at college, they banned it. I still played it. It was fun.

Spent wayyyyyy too much time on them after college. They weren't just games, though. Was involved in one a therapist ran for his mental health organization. If you think there were weirdos in yours....

What do you mean used to? I'm still playing a Battletech MUX now and again.

Oh yeah.. Tele-Arena, LotRD and Tradewars on the local BBSes, along with way too much Dragon's Gate and Gemstone III on GEnie. My wife and I played Dragon's Gate together for a few years when EQ was at its height, but I didn't get into a graphical MMO until Horizons came out.

My main vice for many many years was Discworld Mud, based on the books by Terry Pratchett. I still visit from time to time, though since I started playing WoW, and then Rift, I have lost most interest. Also, getting married and suddenly not having much free time probably didn't help, but that goes for gaming in general, not just online gaming.

Well behind the heyday, but I spent some time in WoTMUD. Never got very deep, but had fun running around Randland.

Still do. Graphical games like WOW, Lotro, suck me in for a bit, but I always find myself returning to mudding at CarrionFields. Nothing I've found beats the cutthroat nature of the PvP there.

Necro time!

I've been reading a LitRPG novel recently, and something about the writing style got me to reminiscing about an old MUD I used to play: BatMUD. As it turns out, it's still alive and kicking, and my character from at least a decade ago (maybe even two) still exists. I have absolutely no recollection of how to play or what to do -- let alone whatever changes they may have made to the game in the years since I've been away -- but I'm planning to give it a shot. Anyone else interested in joining along for some text-based fun?

Alternately, does anyone still play these things? If so, what's your MUD of choice?

I still play 3Kingdoms. I've been playing on and off since '94 or '95 I guess? Huge realms (like 50000 rooms) an active wizard community, etc.
I've played BatMUD once or twice, but it never stuck for some reason.

I haven't been active in any MUDs in a long time. But I do still have twinges of nostalgia for the various battletech MUXes, and a World of Darkness themed GodWars mud called Lurking Fear.

Started mudding back in the early 90's on Supergirl, then moved to Ronin so I could continue to multi-box using TinTin, and ended up on Gizmo MUD. Good times. Haven't played in years but apparently I'm still noted as one of the Immortals there.

http://www.gizmomud.com/

The only MUD I ever played for a decent period of time was Prophecy, which was based on the Belgariad. Shocking choice of MUD for me, clearly.

I think I spent too much of my free time in high school on eltanin.caltech.edu. Also one that I think was called EPICmud.

I also had some memorable time on a hacked-up mud that periodically reset, then had a grace period for players to make new characters. Then the "round" would start. You were dropped in the game somplace random, and the server insta-killed all the mobs, dropping their gear. The goal was to be the last one alive. Now that I think of it, this may have been the great-grandaddy of Battle Royale computer games.

In college I toyed around with running Diku and Circlemud on a Linux box in my dorm room.

deftly wrote:

I think I spent too much of my free time in high school on eltanin.caltech.edu. Also one that I think was called EPICmud.

I also had some memorable time on a hacked-up mud that periodically reset, then had a grace period for players to make new characters. Then the "round" would start. You were dropped in the game somplace random, and the server insta-killed all the mobs, dropping their gear. The goal was to be the last one alive. Now that I think of it, this may have been the great-grandaddy of Battle Royale computer games.

In college I toyed around with running Diku and Circlemud on a Linux box in my dorm room.

Before there was PUBG, there was the Tron PvP Mud, where players were dropped into a games grid and had to use Tron-themed weapons to kill each other while occasionally finding cracks in the games grid to heal.

I remember a round-based PvP MUD similar to what you are describing. You started each round with a plain level 1 character of some type and had to scour the different regions to find good gear and wear it before hunting and killing the other players. The regions available each round were randomized, I think. It was really difficult. I forget the name, but something like Chaos MUD, maybe?

Mixolyde wrote:

I remember a round-based PvP MUD similar to what you are describing. You started each round with a plain level 1 character of some type and had to scour the different regions to find good gear and wear it before hunting and killing the other players. The regions available each round were randomized, I think. It was really difficult. I forget the name, but something like Chaos MUD, maybe?

Found it. It's called Genocide. It's weird. https://www.geno.org/

/r/MUD has a sort of "MUD of the Month" club where they try out MUDs together and chat about them. I may give this one a go.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comment...

I've been played MUDs since 2001 or so. My longstanding home has been DuneMUD (dunemud.com:6789), but I also played WoTMUD pretty seriously back in the day.

Mixolyde wrote:

/r/MUD has a sort of "MUD of the Month" club where they try out MUDs together and chat about them. I may give this one a go.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MUD/comment...

I've given some of the MUD-of-the-month winners a try, generally good experience but never something that becomes a long-term relationship.