How to play MUD

Balmark

Ok ..
This is a game that doesnt 'need' any external software, it might 'seem' boring to some, but believe me, its the most addictive thing you'll legally do.

1: You telnet to a mud, BUT telnet sucks ass, do a search online for "mud client" and download a client (Zmud is the best, if you can get version 4.X get it .. version 5+ is too messy with registration)

2: When you create a character, read up on the help
type help

3: Talk to people, use who, tell, say
who shows all players online
tell sends a message to a player
eg. tell lordkhan hiya darling

LordKhan would see something like
Balmark tells you: hiya darling

say tells everyone in the same room as you something, type look to see who is in the room with you.

sc shows your score and i shows your inventory.
you can look at thing
you can exa thing (examine)
and you can l thing

eg.
exa box
exa balmark
l at box


I'm not sure if there's a consider command on this mud? (cant check till finish work really .. but if there is, you might be able to consider monsters to see if they are within your level to kill

consider butterfly
(might reply with *A Perfect Match*)

consider dragon
(might reply with *Towers over you*)


Tired of typing

Balmark

Chubby

Hmmm, this would be the original MUD aka British Legends right? Thought no one is running a MUD server anymore and everyone had moved to to MUD2...like 10 years ago

Lord Khan

There are hundreds of MUD servers out there.
British lengends was deo not the original one

MUD's are everywhere Netshop just setup one
check the others posts on this board

Lord Khan

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Balmark:
Ok ..

tell sends a message to a player
eg. tell lordkhan hiya darling

LordKhan would see something like
Balmark tells you: hiya darling

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can I just add in anybody who calls me darling and I'll be using the slay command
repeatly

Hobbes

click the link "What is this board about" in the main forum list of this board and you will get links to 1000's of MUD's.

Celt

I use mudmaster2000

dr_bob

not exactly a 'serious' mud but quite nice -www.runescape.com
its graphical rather than text (3d with 2d sprites)and it's point and click rather than command/alias based but otherwise quite cool.
oh and its java based and runs within your browser...which is nice
(at least for now anyway,as the dumb 12yr old kid quotient is gradually getting bigger;< )

[This message has been edited by dr_bob (edited 30-01-2001).]