.DT quests $MUDNAME$ concepts help quests Description .SP 5 5 Quests are, in essence, puzzles that have been worked into the game. For example, a number centre around finding items and returning them to NPCs - Non-Player Characters, another word for the "monsters" that populate the game. Others involve figuring out how to get somewhere, or how to do a particular thing. On completion, a quest generally rewards you with experience and sometimes with a special item or even a permanent stat gain. .EP .SP 5 5 Now comes the important part of this help file: even an apparently simple quest takes a lot of work from the person who created it and apart from coming up with the idea in the first place, they are difficult to code and often take weeks of planning and debugging. .EP .SP 5 5 It is considered against the rules to ask other players how to solve a quest or to give out quest solutions. There are a number of reasons why. Put yourself in the creator's position - you've just spent many weeks working on a complex piece of code; one person figures it out and tells everyone else; wouldn't you be a little upset? Then there's a thrill of solving a tricky puzzle: many players get a lot of satisfaction out of this and if you discuss how to solve a quest on a public channel or by shouting it, you're probably ruining the game for many other people. .EP .SP 5 5 If you are really stuck then you could, politely, ask someone using "tell" for a hint - do NOT ask creators for help or hints concerning quests, they are quite within their rights to ignore you or worse if you're asking for solutions. .EP .SP 5 5 Note well: "Hey dude, how do you get started on <insert quest title here>?" is not asking for a hint. .EP
