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[Vivalas]

http://empiremud.net/

Empire MUD is an amazing game that could be so much more fun if more people played it. The aim of the game is to build up your own empire from scratch on a huge world, or join another one and help expand. The game used to have tons of players and we had a thread for it and this forum had created the largest city in the game world and the biggest empire. The game centers around diplomacy, trade, and commerce, with PVP thrown in there as well.


In order to join the game get a MUD client of your choice and join empiremud.net:4000.



My goal is to revive this awesome game, and to rebuild a mighty dwarven kingdom.

However, if you want to just play the game and build your own empire or join somebody else's, you can, but information about the NDR will be in a a spoiler at the bottom of the list.

Basic New Player Guide

When you start the game you choose a class and a bonus attribute. Your "starting class" isn't really the class you'll end up with, it's just skills you get a bonus to when you start. In Empire MUD there are 8 classes and you can choose two as your "class skills" (which allow you to learn them all the way), and one as a specialist skill. The rest you can still level up in, just not all the way. You don't have to make this decision when you start the game though, you just have to decide which skills you want to specialize in when you reach that point you can't go any higher without doing so.

Each skill has abilities in it, which are unlocked by raising the skill. You can then use these unlocked abilities to further level your skills. Each ability can only increase your skill by up to 10 levels though, so you have to use different abilities to raise a certain skill, which makes it less grindy.

The 8 skills are

Empire - An important skill for someone who wants to be a builder and expander of the empire. Some of the abilities in this skill are "technologies", which means only one person in the empire needs them.
Battle- A skill that increase your ability to fight monsters and other players. You can go the PvP route if you want, but since other empires are rather inactive currently, it's probably best to make an alt that focuses on battle skill.
High Sorcery - A must for any empire, this is a good route to go if you like the "support" type of player. One of the most important abilities in this skill are the teleportation ones, which allow an empire to link it's cities via portals.
Natural Magic - A bit more eccentric than High Sorcery. You can master the arts of the natural world.
Stealth - Another PvP oriented skill that turns you gradually more and more into a ninja-assassin badass, good for infiltrating other empires.
Survival - An essential skill for anyone to have. Above the level 50 threshold the abilities become more "empire-building" specific, but new players should get this up to 50 as quickly as possible.
Trade - A skill for those who like to be crafters. Really only a few of these are needed per empire since they can make crafts for the rest, and almost all of the basic crafts and necessities are covered under level 50.
Vampire - A weird one. Turns you into a vampire that goes around killing people. More of a "rogue" type of thing, since killing citizens of your own empire makes your empire mad.

When you start the game unless you chose tribal leader, you'll want to get your survival to 5 to buy navigation, which allows you to know where you are in the world and turns the map right side up. From there you'll probably want trade 5 to get basic crafts, so you can build a canoe and leave the newbie island once you are ready.

The game has some basic guides and tutorials, but the first thing you'll want to do is type "dig", which will let you forage for rocks. Once you have two, you can wield one and "chip" the other, giving you a chipped rock. Chip this chipped rock again to get a handaxe. Once you have a handaxe "gather" to forage for sticks, then wield the handaxe and "craft handle'. This will carve the stick into a handle. Finally, "craft stone axe", to make an axe that you can "chop" trees with. Once you get to this point, you can follow the guides to get a better feel for the game until you get some basic skills and decide to leave the newbie island. "help", "info" and "getting started" are your best friends here.

The game has three "newbie islands", that each have a "tower of souls". The tower of souls is like a spawn point, and when you die you go back to it unless your empire has a cemetery. You can teleport between these newbie islands at the tower of souls. These newbie islands are less dangerous than the rest of the world, and if you die you can easily walk back to where you last were, so it's a low risk environment to have some fun and explore game mechanics. If you want to join the New Dwarven Republic type "pledge new dwarven", leave a post in this thread or the NDR thread with your name, and wait until I can enroll you. While your waiting follow the guide on the NDR thread to get to the capital.

Blaze also wrote an amazing guide that covers basic aspects of the game in depth as well as the skill system.

Spoiler: Newbie Guide (By Blaze) (click to show/hide)

So you first pick your name.
Then pick your class, choose one that you like. It doesn't really matter in the end as your class is purely determined by skills.
Then choose a bonus. I highly recommend taking either more skill points or faster chores. Don't worry. Every 48-realtime play hours you can pick another bonus until you have 3. Kinda easy if you automate the more annoying tasks overnight.

Now you're in the game.

DON'T PANIC. DON'T MOVE.

The game will overload you with a lot of information straight on out. For now focus on this:

Type in "pledge <empire name>".
Once you're accepted use esay <message> (or just es <message>)
If it's taking a while to get accepted, use /newbie <message> to send a message.
If things are scrolling by too fast for you, use empirehistory (eh) or /history <channelname> to see the last 20 chats.
Once you've been accepted, use "who -e" to see who else is in your empire.
"whois <playername>" for more advanced into on a player.

Once you've done that, read "info" and follow it to learn more about the controls.

Done with info? Let's move on.

Let's take a look at your status bar. It's a mess. It doesn't tell you what you need to know.

So let's change it, type in "prompt |%hhp %vmv %mmp %t [%c] %a>"

"help prompt" will tell you more about prompts so you can customize it as you like.

You should see the change immediately.

Hp, Mp, and time are self explanatory.
The [] is the condition box, letter will appear to notify you of any status effects H for hungry, T for thirsty, R for riding, etc.
And the last part is the chore box, which will change depending on what task you're doing.

Additionally, "score" will show your character's full status. "affect" will only show status effects.

Most importantly Mv is movement points. Which will constantly annoy you.
Moving takes Mv. If you don't have enough Mv, you won't be able to move.
Stay on the roads as much as possible. The rougher the terrain, the more Mv it takes.
Mv will naturally recover, but if you need it faster, "sleep" to recover it. "wake" and "stand" to get back up once you've finished recovering.
Always carry food and water with you, your passive regen drops to 0 if you're hungry or thirsty.
If you're hungry/thirsty and aren't carrying provisions, sleeping is the only way to recover Mv at all.
Scavenge food via gather, fishing, or butchering. You can fill your canteen/wineskin at a water source(~~)

Now let's take a look at the map.

This map won't look the same for everyone. Since you lack navigation, the map will reorient randomly whenever you open it. The general structure will still be the same though.

Let's review the structures in the above map.

][ is the portal that lets you go to other places.
<oo> represents players, including yourself.

All the others are various terrain, buildings, and such.
Buildings are denoted by letters surrounded by either () or []. Some buildings share letters with others and look identical, so you'll just have to memorize them.

Provided that the empire you're joining already has things set up, do this, otherwise ignore it.

What you want to focus on first is the Utility Storage Room (UU).
To see what items are in a storage room, use "i"nventory.
"retrieve <item>" or "store <item>".
Different items go in different storage rooms.
To find out an item's capabilities "Identify <item>.

Go there and pick up the following:
A walking stick (Hold Stick)
A Canteen or Wineskin
A Flint set
A satchel (Wear satchel)
A whip (Wield whip)
"Junk Bowl" to get rid of your old water bowl. You won't need it.

Let's do a quick inventory overview

You'll occasionally find item with tags, such as boe or large.
BOE mean "Bind on Equip". Once you've equipped the item, no one else can use it.
Large means it takes 2 inventory slots instead of one.
And yes, each item takes 1 unit of storage unless it's large. Meaning you can carry 20 tree trunks if you wanted to.

Now the meat and potatoes of the game: Skills.
Type in "skill" to see your skills.

Now what skills should you take? How many skills can you take? Read and I'll answer them.

Battle represents general combat. Pretty much required if you want to fight at all.
Empire represents buildings and NPC control.
High Sorcery is primarily defense and utility based.
Natural Magic is your fire and lightning.
Stealth has some offensive capabilities, but is primarily into utility.
Survival is generally based on traveling and gathering.
Trade is your crafting skill.
Vampire has both offensive and defensive skills. (Vampire Abilities don't work during the day until you get Daywalker).

If your starting class doesn't have the skill, it starts at 0.
Empire, trade, survival, and battle can be raised to 1 via general actions. Empire by harvesting crops or building things. Trade by basic crafting. Survival by gathering sticks and digging. And battle by fighting.

Stealth can be raised to 1 by bribing the thief in the sewer adventure zone with 100 coins. Give 100 coins thiefname
Natural magic can be raised to 1 by "chant druid" at a stonehedge.
High sorcery can be raised to 1 by "study" in a sorceror tower.
Vampire can be raised to 1 by having another vampire sire you.

It's important to note that the exp percentage does not go to 100 to raise a skill. Rather, every time you do a skill-related action, that's the chance your skill will increase by 1. It increases when you do skill-related actions.

Note that number at the very top "Skill level". This limits what equipment you can wear, what levels your crafts can reach, and even what enemies spawn. The number is determined by your class skill; and until you choose two class skills that number will be all over the place.

You start out as adventurer class, essentially peasants. You can barely wear anything, your crafts suck, and you're a only a minor annoyance in combat for anyone who's gained a class. Even leather armor is level 75.  Your first priority should be to raise two skills to 75 and then convert them to class skills.

You will not gain any HP/MP/MV until you've gained a class.

And then there's "Skill points available" on the bottom. As long as you have these skill points, your skills will increase much, much faster. You get 15 points a day (20 if you took the skill point bonus), resetting at 12AM eastern. They don't accumulate; use them or lose them.

If you want to focus those points on a skill "noskill <skillname>" will toggle the leveling of a skill.

Now let's talk about skill caps.
You can get 2 skills to 100. These are your class skills.
You can get 1 skill to 75. This is a specialty skill.
You can get all other skills to 50. These are basic skills.

However, if you keep two skills at 0. You can raise one more skill to 75.

To specialize a skill, raise it to 50 and "specialize <skill>". To make it a class skill, raise it to 75 and specialize it again.

That should be enough about skill caps.

Now abilities, open up an ability window by typing in "skill <skillname>":

You get ability points at level 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 75, 80, 90, and 100.
If you're taking it as a basic skill, you get 10 points.
If you're taking it as a specialized skill, you get 13 points.
If you're taking it as a class skill, you get 16.

Use skill buy <ability> to buy abilities.
You should focus on getting abilities that will increase your skill.
Once you reach level 50 in that skill, you can skill reset <skill> to get back all your ability points. You get additional resets when you specialize that skill, and more when you reach level 50 or 100.

What do these numbers mean? Let's take a look at the Butcher ability.
[1-50] means you can get this ability at level 1 survival. The 50 means it will stop increasing your skill level once you reach survival 50.
5/10 skill points gained. Each ability will only increase your skill level by 10 points before it stops contributing.
If you don't keep an eye on these numbers you might end up not being able to raise your skills anymore. Forcing you to "skill reset".
Skills will only increase if an ability is triggered. If you have an armor skill, it'll only be increased by being hit. If you have an active skill, like a spell, it'll only increase on casting.
Finally, "skill drop <#>" will allow you to drop a skill's amount. You can't undo this and there is no benefit other than allowing you to raise another skill or reset skills if you ran out of resets.

When leveling a skill; whatever ability was last used is drained by 1 point. So you can do things like use a fast-increasing skill to raise exp% and then use a slow-leveling skill to gain the point.

Equipment
All equipment have levels, and whether or not you can equip an item is purely determined by level. However, it's not like "Lvl 30 character can equip item level 30", rather it's divided into such:

Characters under level 50 can equip stuff from 1-49.
Characters at 50-75 can equip items from 1-74.
Characters above 75

Note this is your character's class level, which is determined by your 3(?) highest skills. Not your total level which is your class level + total item level.

Crafting is a bit odd. There are several factors here.

- When you craft an item, the item's level is determined by your skill, so if you're level 22 in trade, the item will be level 22.
- The level cap of a crafted item is determined by what skill range (Under 50/51-75/75+)it's derived from. So if you take weaponcrafting (Required skill 30), the limit is 50, Ironworking is up to 75, and advanced stuff is capped at 100.
- If you're crafting something from a pattern (aka blueprint) the item is capped by your TOTAL level instead. I don't know why piling on heavy armor makes you better at crafting but it just does.

A map of the world is here: http://empiremud.net/map-viewer/

If we can get enough players, hopefully others will start joining the game as well, and then those will recruit others and so forth. I want this game to go back to it's glory days of 20 players online average! (Or more!)

Spoiler: New Dwarven Republic (click to show/hide)

New Dwarven Republic

Eren - Eshim - Imketh

We submit to none.

The New Dwarven Republic is a mighty and proud republic forged from the blood, sweat, and tears of the late Dwarven Empire. The republic's affairs are dictated by a charter, which outlines the structure of the government, and the republic is self-governing, with rulers elected from a high council.

The aim of the charter is, so unlike with the Dwarven Empire, the government doesn't stagnate and cease to function without key players around. The charter makes it so that if people become inactive, they can be easily replaced by more eager lower ranking players, and so forth, allowing a constant and changing ruling body that never runs into issues with coordination and labor. Additionally, the nature of this body makes it so that there is constant opportunity for hard-working lower ranked members to ascend to high-ranking government positions, giving further incentive for improval and work ethic.


Charter of the New Dwarven Republic

Section 1 - Ranks of the Governance

Subsection 1 - Arbiter

The Arbiter of the NDR is not a proper government figure, but rather the sole moderator of the charter.

The Arbiter is to be addressed as "Arbiter", "Arbitrator",  "Most Impartial Moderator", or any title of their choosing, or "Grand Arbiter" if they are also serving as Grand Mayor.

The responsibility of the Arbiter is to moderate the government, and if infractions of the charter are found, correct them. Nominally, such infractions would be handled by the Council of Magistrates, but in extreme cases, and only in extreme cases, the Arbiter should intervene. The arbiter has no political power and otherwise is not to intervene in operations of the Republic. The Arbiter may attend council meetings, but may not speak unless asked questions about the charter.

The Arbiter may be nominated and run in elections for Chief Magistrate however, and by extension, become the Grand Mayor. However, they are NOT considered a part of the Council of Magistrates.

If the Arbiter feels they are unable to continue their duties, they must pass the responsibility on to someone whom they trust, preferably a hard-working and loyal long-standing member of the Republic.

(OOC: The Arbiter is the highest "rank" in the republic in the game. The idea is if Grand Mayor was given the highest "rank" in the republic, they would have full control over everything, and if, for example, they get voted out of office or impeached, they might decide "fuck it, kick all my opponents from the republic and become a dictator". Because Arbiter is the highest rank, if the Grand Mayor is being an ass, they can just remove them. Of course, being the Arbiter comes with lots of trust and responsibility, which is why I will probably be the Arbiter for most of the foreseeable future. They have no power over republic affairs though except when the charter is violated.)

Subsection 2 - Grand Mayor

The Grand Mayor of the NDR is the Chief Executive member of the government and is in charge of leading the Republic forward and managing its affairs.

The Grand Mayor is to be addressed as "Grand Mayor", "High Mayor", or "Sir Mayor".

The responsibility of the Grand Mayor is oversee the government, intervening where necessary, but also delegating orders to lower officials so that work can continue in the absence of the Grand Mayor (henceforth "GM").

Powers of the GM:

• The ability to veto acts of the Council of Magistrates
• Can break ties for Council of Magistrates (in non-executive votes).
• Appoints magistrates to office (cabinet) positions.
• Oversees all aspects of internal realm operation as long as they fall within the lawful bounds of the charter. (e.g. creating cabinet offices, zoning provinces, giving orders to mayors, etc.)
• Settles disputes among magistrates.
• Assigns magistrates to administrative provinces

The Grand Mayor is replaced every 4 years (in-game) by the current Chief Magistrate.

Subsection 3 - Chief Magistrate

The Chief Magistrate is the Vice Chief Executive of the NDR.

The Chief Magistrate is to be addressed as, "Most Honorable", "Highest Magistrate", "High Adjudicator", "Chief Magistrate", or "Chief".

The responsibilities of the Chief Magistrate (henceforth "CM") are ensuring the will of the Grand Mayor is carried out when they are not available, delegating orders and guidance to lower members of government. The CM is able to ensure the government can function in the absence of the GM by acting as his "right hand" and providing a second opinion as to the GM's orders and delegating to ensure they are carried out. The CM overrules all members of government in internal affairs except for the GM. While the CM can carry out various executive acts without the GM, it is advised they coordinate together to describe their plans to one another.

Powers of the CM:

• Only overruled by Grand Mayor on internal affairs (should consult with current GM)
• Serves as executive of Council of Magistrate sessions in absence of Grand Mayor.

The Chief Magistrate is elected by the Council of Magistrates every 4 years, where the previous CM rises up to Grand Mayor.

Subsection 4 - Magistrate

Magistrates are high-ranking government officials charged with the highest orders of governance. Magistrates usually hold one or more office positions or provincial governor positions.

Magistrates are to be addressed as "Honorable", "Magistrate", "Adjudicator", or "Governor" if they hold a provincial seat, or by their formal office name if they hold an office of the cabinet.

The responsibility of the magistrate is to carry out their responsibilities as relevant to their job and position, and to attend Council of Magistrate meetings as much as they can.

To become a Magistrate one must be nominated by two current members of the Council of Magistrates and be confirmed by the Council (in a non-executive vote).

The number of magistrates is suggested to not exceed at most half of the republic except for in cases where there are fulfilled government positions and current magistrates are overworked.

Magistrates may also be demoted and removed from the council pending decision of the Grand Mayor, and confirmed by 3/4ths of the Council.

Subsection 5 - Lord Mayor

Lord Mayors are junior government officials that are usually awarded the title by merit as a trusted and hard-working Burgher, or being given the mayoral seat of city by the Council (if they are not already Lord Mayor or higher in rank).

Lord Mayors are to be addressed as "Mayor", "Lord Mayor", or "Lord".

Lord Mayors can be promoted to the rank by any Magistrate or member of the Council of Magistrates. While it is not necessary, it is recommended the Councilor consult with the rest of the Council first, or at the very least notify the Council of the promotion.

Subsection 6 - Burgher

The Burgher is the lowest-ranking member of the republic government. Burghers have next to no power other than in certain special situations, and have no special title to be addressed by. Burghers may be promoted into the government by any Magistrate, although it is recommended to use good judgement in doing so as to prevent and property damage or theft to occur on part of the new recruit.

Section 2 - Council of Magistrates

Subsection 1 - The Council

The Council of Magistrates, or simply the Council, is the legislative branch of the government composed of the highest ranking officials of the council.

Members of the Council include: the Grand Mayor, Chief Magistrate, and Magistrates.

The Council convenes at least once per year (OOC: week), at the time where the highest attendance may be possible. Additionally, the CM or GM may call a special session, only for in extreme cases, where the council is needed to convene immediately for an important vote.

At least 3/4ths of the council must vote for the vote to be valid, except in special cases such as noted.

Types of votes the council may participate in:

Motion to Amend the Charter:  Any Councillor may start this vote to amend or change a part of the charter. The motion must have UNANIMOUS consent from the entirety of the council (entire council must vote), and then 3/4ths of the republic (including council but also Lord Mayors and Burghers) must ratify the amendment.

Foreign Affairs: In order to alter diplomatic relations with other empires other than trade agreements, the council most vote. This is an executive vote and thus the GM may veto the motion if so desired.

Promoting a Magistrate: In order to promote a lower ranking member to Magistrate, two Councillors must nominate them, and then the Council must vote. This is a non-executive vote, so the GM breaks the tie if any.

Demoting a Magistrate: In order to demote a Magistrate, the GM must start the vote. The council then must confirm the demotion in a non-executive vote.

Claiming/Annexing/Ceding/Abandoning land/Founding/Expanding/Abandoning Cities: In order to alter the Republic's borders, an executive vote must be called. This includes claiming new land, annexing the land of other empires, or ceding or abandoning land, as well as founding, abandoning, or expanding cities.



Appointing Mayors: Unlike provincial governors, mayors are appointed by a Council non-executive vote.


Subsection 2 - Elections / Impeachments

The GM of the NDR is replaced every 4 years by the current serving CM. Additionally, a new CM is elected to replace the old CM, who will take the place of the new GM in the next election cycle.

The current GM may be elected to be the new CM, thus allowing them to ascend back to GM 4 years later. This process is known as "teeter-tottering".

Candidates may begin campaigning whenever they like, but the election will take place on the first Friday of every real-life month. The council will convene for a vote that will last up to 3-days, with all Councillors who have still not voted being counted as abstainers.

The election of the Chief Magistrate is non-executive vote, however, the current GM's power to break the tie only counts if they are not running for CM. If there is a tie in this case, a Republic-wide vote will be called of all members of the Republic. If there is still a tie, the candidate who has been a member of the NDR the longest will be elected.

Additionally, if a GM or CM is performing poorly, or inactive, the Council may call a vote of no confidence. Impeachment requires a unanimous vote (the impeachee does not get a vote.)

Section 3 - Administrative Offices

Subsection 1 - Cabinet Offices

Cabinet offices (those appointed by the GM) can be added / removed from the charter without the process of amendment.

Office of Labor

Officer Title: Steward

The Steward heads the Office of Labor, and is in charge of managing the workforce and production, trade, and treasury of the NDR. This person is in charge of providing detailed resource reports to the council, consisting of resource totals, weekly production estimates, and financial budget reports.

Additionally, the Steward is responsible for setting resource distributions to the various other offices and provinces based on this weekly estimate, accounting for maintenance costs as well.

Office of Exploration and Reclamation

Office Title: Chief Expeditionary

The Chief Expeditionary heads the Office of Exploration and Reclamation, responsible for surveying the lands in and around the sovereign borders of the Republic. The Chief Expeditionary may create expeditions to go and reclaim, dismantle, scavenge, and map areas of the world, as well as find abandoned cities and prospect for rich mineral sites.

The Chief Expeditionary may also be called upon by the Grand Mayor to go and find suitable locations to found new cities.

Office of War

Office Title: Marshal

The Marshal is responsible for coordinating city defense, managing the navy, and coordinating the army of the Republic. The Marshal is also responsible for providing to the council information such as threat estimates, intelligence reports, readiness reports, etc.

(OOC: War is a bit weird in Empire MUD. The Marshal's main job would probably be managing the navy, as well as scouting for enemy presence. You can't actually mobilize armies in Empire MUD, soldiers are mainly for city defense. However, players can take on a number of battle stats, and rallying the battle-oriented players in the realm to attack and loot other empires would be a responsibility of the Marshal.)

Office of Intelligence

Office Title: Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor is responsible for providing intelligence and security estimates to the council, as well as managing the Republic's spy network and conducting counter-espionage operations in the Republic's cities and territory.

This includes coordinating the Republic's stealth-oriented players and coordinating with the Marshal for intelligence purposes.

Subsection 2 - Provinces and Cities

The Republic's lands may be drawn into administrative provinces by the Grand Mayor and Chief Magistrate. These provinces would be governed by a Magistrate who would oversee the cities and territory surrounding the cities of these provinces.

Additionally, the various cities of the Republic will be overseen by a mayor elected by the Council.

The Grand Mayor and Chief Magistrate can issue orders and have jurisdiction over all the cities in provinces in the Republic, but it is recommended to delegate tasks as well to the various governors and mayors, as well as let them plan and develop their cities to their liking.

Provincial Governors have authority over city mayors as long as their orders do not conflict with higher orders from the GM or CM. Like the GM and CM, it is often good to delegate to the mayors as well.

Anyone may help build and expand cities, as long as they don't go against the rules and orders set by the mayor or governor of the city. Most cities and provinces will have planning reports that outline how to expand the city, and the various roads and streets and other features the mayor has in mind.

(OOC: Delegation is important, especially for if the republic gets large. It's easier for the Grand Mayor to tell a provincial governor to get roads built between the cities in his province, and get his mayors to build walls around their cities, then to do it all himself. Not to say he can't help out.)

Current Government Officials of the Republic:

Grand Mayor: Grand Arbiter Urist Guildervan (Vivalas)

Chief Magistrate: Vacant

Magistrates: Governor Olm the High Sorcerer (Jilladilla)

Lord Mayors:

Burghers: Shorast Ackerson (Vivalas)


Provinces and Cities

Province of Ollara: Governor Olm the High Sorcerer (Jilladilla)

City of Ollara: Grand Arbiter Urist Guildervan (Vivalas)

Province of Old Dwarvinia: Vacant


Cabinet Offices of the Republic

Office of Labor: Vacant

Office of Exploration and Reclamation: Vacant

Office of War: Vacant

Office of Intelligence: Vacant

[spoiler=Map of New Dwarven Republic]

To join the NDR simply join the game and type "pledge new dwarven" then follow the guide below once you have a canoe and are ready to go (bring some food).


Getting to Ollara:

While you're waiting to be accepted into the republic, might as well start heading to the capital!

The capital of Ollara is located on the coastel inlet of Xandafu, right about here:



As shown by the black circle on the map. This means the quickest route to the capital is denoted by the red line (departing from northern newbie island). Where you depart doesn't matter much as long as you turn embark off the west shore and turn  south when you get to X 250, then turn east again when you get to Y 840, then turn south again when you hit land (should be a small mountain range and delta). This will take you to the shore of Ollara (you should see a clay pit). Get out of your canoe and head south and you'll be in Ollara!

[Xardalas]

Heh. I still have my character. Seems like the level limit was raised? Also most of my equipment seems to be gone. Shame about that honestly. I rather liked all the custom vampire themed gear I had.

[Akura]

Hmm, been a long time since I've played a MUD of any kind.

Those skillsets all look they could be a fun niche to play. Stealth/Vamp looks like an obvious synergy.

[Xardalas]

Eh. Back when I played, you wnated natural magic/battle because it let you turn into a werewolf and those were super OP at fighting. LIke...to the point that a single were wolfwolf went through and slaughter two battlevamps.

Also, melee combat used to me mostly useless against magic. Like there was no reason to actually use it. Dunno if it changed.

[Girlinhat]

I played for a while, probably still have a character.

[Xardalas]

I don't think to much developement has been done on roles. I just popped on and gone through the help files. Seems like most of the roles are still missing special abilities and such. I don't see to much that has changed in the year or two that I've been a away.

[Vivalas]

The dev is still chipping away at patches on a weekly basis. I can't say I would be too motivated to add big features either if I had a skeleton community. This game definitely has the potential to be really cool.

[DoomOnion]

The community isn't going to develop itself if the game is stagnant and does not develop fast enough.

[Vivalas]

The game already has a community albeit a small one, it just could use more players to spice things up, especially since game mechanics revolve around relying on other players for help and support.

[gomez]

We had some fun times playing this, for example riding horses whilst duel wielding walking sticks for near unlimited movement points. And the time when we made some potent cider which made the map spin for about a RL hour.

[UXLZ]

What client would you suggest?

[Codician]

What client would you suggest?

Mudlet / Mushclient is usually good.

[BluarianKnight]

Never did a MUD before.
Totally will now.

[Akura]

This is the kind of game I'd like to see as a larger MMORPG.

Beyond that though, I'm finding it very hard to raise the Trade skill. At 7, but I've crafted have a dozen leather things(can't find any cotton or such), without any increase. I'm also finding the very small number of things you can get leather from a bit odd. You cannot skin a donkey, horse, or even a cow to get leather. What really annoys me most about it though is that I have to stop and sleep every couple of steps.

Also, is there any henges around to start to get Natural Magic? It turns out High Sorcery is the more utilitarian spell skill while Natural is better for combat; I expected it the other way around.

[Xardalas]

This is the kind of game I'd like to see as a larger MMORPG.

Beyond that though, I'm finding it very hard to raise the Trade skill. At 7, but I've crafted have a dozen leather things(can't find any cotton or such), without any increase. I'm also finding the very small number of things you can get leather from a bit odd. You cannot skin a donkey, horse, or even a cow to get leather. What really annoys me most about it though is that I have to stop and sleep every couple of steps.

Also, is there any henges around to start to get Natural Magic? It turns out High Sorcery is the more utilitarian spell skill while Natural is better for combat; I expected it the other way around.

Nope. Only groups can make em. from what I remember, there was a natural henge or two somewhere but back when I played they were blocked off by player towns. don't know now.


As for cotton and such, they have to be farmed. And their farmed best in desert areas.


Out of curiousity, what empire are we pledged to?