Yeah, so I still haven't been playing FFXI much. I'll come back and play a lot eventually, but right now I'm messing around with muds. To be more specific, I've recently been compiling muds via Cygwin and then running them. I've found a few codebases that are really nice but just this morning I found one that I think I'm going to keep and try to work on and try to make something unique out of it. It's the 1stmud4.5.1 codebase (based off the ROM2.4 code) and it's really cool. Built-in automapper is the #1 thing that really makes me happy, it kind of adds a graphical feeling to a text based game.
The codebase starts with a few stock areas and monsters that come with it at the beginning, but I think I'm going to start building a town from scratch so the game doesn't feel like every ROM based mud out there. If any of you play muds as much as me (probably not) you'll know the basic ROM stock town layout... with the town square and the market square directly south of that, equipment shops along the road east and west of town square and guild halls along the road east and west of market square. Yeah, I don't want the typical stock areas, played them dozens of times and it's the same every time.
But anyway, if anybody wants to see what I have so far (nothing really), talk to me on AIM and I could give you directions on how to connect... I would recommend using a mud client like Mushclient to play on it. I recommend mushclient because it's just as good as Zmud, but way easier to crack.
Posted by at March 2, 2004 06:31 AMJoe for game of the year!
Posted by: JP at March 2, 2004 11:53 PMId like to play too.
Posted by: Nick at March 3, 2004 01:03 AMHooray for creativity!
Posted by: HardwareGuy at March 3, 2004 02:16 PMI'm having trouble getting it started back up now, I crashed the fuck out of it when I was editing some monsters and now I can't get it to start back up. Dammit.
Posted by: joe at March 3, 2004 04:56 PMhmmm... did you try going back to the form that worked and re-editing it from taht point?
Posted by: JP at March 3, 2004 08:26 PMI got it working. I backed up my area files (which was pretty much all I really changed), and re-configured and compiled the MUD, imported my area files to the new mud and started it up again. I found out that if the mud CRASHES, I have trouble starting it back up again. But if I shut it down properly, it works fine the next time I try to start it up.
Posted by: joe at March 4, 2004 05:49 PMPenis size is the unwritten measure of masculinity and virility and viewed as and indicator of the ability to please sexually.
Posted by: vimax at September 10, 2006 08:09 AM