Re: Avalon MUD soundpack: german-english
Well Dark, after all the assistence you have provided to me so far, I am glad to be of help this time for a change.
Your description of Avalon on this site is quite accurate, it indeed has a steep learning curve, (or however you defined it), and many aspects of the game, especially during character-progressing, are in a great deal indeed focused on player interactions.
The MUD has a somewhat longer tutorial phase, which includes 2 steps: The accolade and the school phase.
Finishing a certain number of given quests, or so called missions, is required to finish the accolade phase, then the school phase as well.
The minimum number of those missions is set for both phases, and after one succeeds in completing them successfully, one can "graduate".
That's when the real game finally starts, by deciding and choosing a guild to join.
However, to be accepted in any of the numerous guilds, an invitation of certain guild-leading players is requi
red, and even after the joining happened, you will need their further assistence in progressing inside that guild, meaning they will assign further quests and missions to you in order to improve your ranks, since low rank prevents you from performing certain, often very important actions inside the game..
For example, you are usually not even allowed to trade on marketplaces, or in cases you still can do it, to get/keep the items you bought, until you reach the required minimum rank for it.
In matter fact, you cannot even enter your own guild's building, meaning access its rooms without a high enough guild rank. (this can sometimes be of great importance, for the sake of your own safety, or the safety of your pets, since both player, and pet killing is quite common in this mud)
This all may sound pretty harsh and strict for a newbie, but luckily there are quite a few very useful commands, which make the gameplay significantly easier, especially to us vip players
, plus the community is alsovery helpful in most cases. (this is an important aspect, since there is a significant number of regular Avalon players, including guides and experienced players ewith newbie-aiding duties)
Since I am very much fond of cats, (adoring and admiring them both in real life and in games), there was even a generous player there, who gifted me a 6 feet long "kitten" pet, lol!
Some of the most helpful commands for me, (mostly related to orientation and pathfinding), are the following:
find or zoom plus location -automatically leads the player to his chosen location, usually a city or town, but works with some places inside, and even outside of cities and towns, like for example some shops, buildings, or forests even
zoom home -automatically leads the player to the center of his home city,
(these commands work only in cities known to you, which is only your home city in the starting phase)
shops -shows the list of shops in
cities known to you, locating them inside the city, plus telling some closer directions regarding their surrounding
shopping -automatically leads you to nearby shops in the area, or actually a city quarter, in "one after another" order, each time you type it
cities/towns -lists the cities/towns known to you, and provides more information about them when entering their names
As for the starting, tutorial phase, I found the following commands the most useful:
remember -reminds the newbie player to his current quests or missions
next -suggests the newbie player his/her next task or action
advice -provides new players with advices regarding their current task or mission
zoom school -automaticcally leads the new player back to his-her school
Normally there are also all the usual "help" files, and the pretty active newbie, or so called "novice" chat, (can be accessed with the "nn" command", where new, so called "novice" players can always ask for assistence.
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