Hi Kieth.
I know muds are rather intimidating in general in the way people talk about
them, but that is no reason not to try them out. . basically i's all to
do with the fact that with a mud, events happen in real time and people
program different things to happen when those events occur, or program
multiple commands to be put in at once.
for instance you might program your character to cast a healing spell
whenever your health gets low. None of this is necessary to worry about when
getting started however, and even at more major levels it's quite possible
to play without an ounce of programming and I've myself played project bob,
materiamagica and a couple of other games just with the standard vipmud with
no programming at all and been fine.
For most muds I would highly recommend vipmud from www.gmagames.com, sinse
it's simple, quick and easy to use and works with various speech output
methods including sapi.
Alteraeon however is even easier, because oriol gomez has put together a
soundpack and client especially for the game.
this outputs to screen readers and also adds background music and sounds as
well as making a lot of scripting automatical, so if you want to know your
mana for instance just hit shift f3, and some spells such as healing will!
be cast automatically for you by the client.
Just download and run the inosetup and you should be good to start creating
your character and exploring alter.
Read the docs for info on mushclient, and either look at the alter help
pages or ask other players for some assistance with the game.
As to "getting your characters destroyed" well unlike some games (ough
miriani! cough), alter has no pvp unless you want. Some of the monsters can!
get tough, but that is all part of the game and the newbie areas are more
than enough to prepare you.
As I said, I was a little apprehensive of getting into muds myself, but I'm
now distinctly a fan, especially of alter with the soundpack, which now
verges on being an audio rpg in it's own right, so just feel free to dive in
and have a go.
All the best,
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:19 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon primer
Hi is there a primer on how to play alter aeon?
I hear all this talk about tiggers and what not, and I'm kind of nervous
about playing the game, thinking I'm goig to get my character's butt
smeared all over the net.
Thanks
Keith
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