Hi. Looking at the description of Erionmud on mud connector a thought occurred to me.
I often see muds mentioned as having x thousand rooms, but I find this a little difficult to process in terms of how large the mud is. As someone who loves exploring,I obviously like lots of teretory, but it's also not just a question of how big the thing is sinse another factor is how interesting or involved the exploring is, both in terms of descriptions, and in terms of the travelling. Clok for example I believe has about three thousand rooms which is comparatively small, but the fact that it has a fully realized wilderness and exploration system means it feels much larger. Aardwolf famously has over thirty thousand rooms, but the auto speedwalk command and heavy use of portals means that it feels more like exploring a set of disconnected areas (a little like Eamon), rather than a huge connected world. AlterAeon I believe has around thirty thousand rooms as well, but unlike Aardwolf travel requires actually traversing through areas, making it feel larger. I think Materiamagica has more actual rooms quantatively, (the cities really are! realistically gigantic), but because of the wilderness random generation system many have the same description repeated which can make you feel like your not getting anywhere, although I will say it does make cities feel like cities rather than a few item shops surrounding a castle :D. I don't know how big Wayfar1444 actually is, but I will say in that game the procedural generation of rooms and the many random elements you find in the different environments make exploration feel awesome, for all I do wish the developers would implement an ability to find a given biome type on a planet. Promethius from what I've tried actually feels a little smaller in scale, though that is possibly due to unfinished rooms kicking around the place rather than the actual number of rooms, though on the plus side space is a nice place to explore and find stuff. Anyone else have more input? Beware the grue! Dark. There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even the archmaesters of the citadel can dream. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
