Re: A mudding guide for newbies, questions and suggestions please
Hi atgnat
Client wise for an accessible client Vipmud or Mushclient are your best bets. See earlier in this topic for info (another reason I'm making the guide).
For muds I'm a solo exploring/questing sort of player myself, so pvp and keeping up other players never appealed to me.
Hmmm, mud recommendations that is an interesting one.
Alteraeon is a great game and good newbie experience, it also has lots of quests and can be played solo, however with at least two main classes plus the chance to learn spells and skills from your others it can be a bit info heavy at times. Still with great quests that carry through the game it's great to play as a story and with the mushZ client it's more like an audiogame than a mud.
Aardwolf and Erion are combat hacks each with strengths and weaknesses.
aardwolf has esier fire and forget combat, quicker over all advancement, but harder to navigate areas and sometimes need for we b based tools, not to mention npc goals that are nearly impossible due to obscurity.
erion is more coherent generally, has interesting though not over complex combat and actually possible missions, but is very slow.
Both games have pregen quests where you can just run on and whack monsters, though Aardwolf's are imho harder.
Frandom is great as a single player game since basically it plays like a giant interactive fiction, so if you just want to check in and poke the landscape to see what it does that might be a good bet, particularly since the parser is logical and the game has rudimentary combat at best (indeed you can't advance through combat only through quests).
4Dientions is similar to frandom and what shines there are the activities to do, however when I played bugginess and quest obscurity were a little frustrating in places, even with what were supposed to be straight forward activities like the various crafting options, a shame sin ce there iss a great game in there.
Cosmic rage is brilliant for it's activities, though since each activity is a little different you do have to prepare slightly, still it is imho the least obscure and easiest to pickup space mud.
Needless to say very reality heavy muds like clok or lament probably wont' be helpful if you want to dive in straight away.
Of course I'm still trying muds out. lots of people like cyber assault I've not got far with, and I've heard good things about both lensmoor and 3kingdoms/3scapes (which are similar games taken in different directions), the last three are pretty complex, one reason I've not really got involved with them as yet.
Of course others will have thoughts on this too.
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