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jgankum 1/17/08 7:39:14 PM
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http://www.sl.com/images/expand_heroengine.jpg http://www.sl.com/images/hero_engine.jpg http://www.sl.com/sl_press_090607_2.html http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2007/11/mmo_cheats Oh, and 31 players logged into vaperware. Jonny |
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eric_w66 1/19/08 3:07:21 AM
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Heh, fancier versions of what I used to see as a "wiz" on MUD's back in the early 90's. The logs would log kills that provided xp over a certain amount (the big tough monsters) and the time they were killed and by who, etc, plus they'd average out people's xp gain over time to look for the "oddballs". Then you'd shadow them and watch them play... And if they cheated, and you were an admin, you hit the banstick. Usually with a giant wall of chat spam, often showing text pictures of a nuke explosion or something else nasty, warning the rest of the MUD what happens to cheaters. If you were only a "wiz", then you might log it to the server, or have an admin shadow them for a while too to observe them (and then the big nuke....).
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Slampig 1/19/08 3:23:25 AM
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Fanboi is not a word, it is just bad grammar. |
You might need to "splain..." what a MUD is.... |
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eric_w66 1/19/08 11:17:36 PM
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Only a nooblet wouldn't know what a MUD is!
Multi-User Dungeon (or Dimension). Text based games with multiple players online. In other words, the birthplace of MMORPG's. Just without graphics and sound. And frankly, I find gameplay to trump graphics and sound, so I've played (and helped build) MUD's with better gameplay than most MMORPG's :). There's a lot of varieties of them, MUD's being the basic. MOO's (Mud, Object Oriented), MUSH (Multi-User Shared Habitat/Hallucination/H*, MUSE (Multi-User Simulated Environment), etc. EQ1 was based off the Diku-MUD engine, the crappiest MUD engine, LPMud/MudOS engines were/are far superior. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD One of my old favorites where I used to be a "wiz" (coder) at is still running:
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