Sure. If you're talking about the programmer. Seems to me we were supposed to be discussing the merits of the MUD itself though. And I seriously still fail to see why using a modern codebase off the shelf vs spending 5 years time to get the same has any bearing on that. On a MUD, content is king, and to that end it would be more useful to discuss the merits of the MUDs area files. Of course, it might also be best to do that when we're not using someone's advertisement thread :)

OLC and codebase are independent of each other in lots of cases. I can think of many bases that include 2 different OLC's and i think then its much better to say we have Smaug and Oasis OLC than We are EldhaMUD or a Smaug derived base which does not give all the information required to make a decision.



The main delineater between codebases is the style of play NO? but even that is not fixed in stone. I too don't play Moo et al, not because of the codebase bot because i am not into the heavy roleplay environment that these bases offer. Rom and LP well they can be molded into whatever your hearts desire if your patient and put in the work. Sentience for example is a Rom derived game that plays nothing like a typical Rom. Lp tho i find hard to put into a box, the ones i have played are so diverse, check out Core 2036 as an example of something totally different.



Why reinvent the wheel, the smart person design their game out on paper and then use the best tool for the job. The design and implementation of a good game has nothing to do with how many changes you have coded into a more primitive base or even from scratch mind you. It has to do with using the path of least resistance.

In 2003 when i first started EldhaMUD i looked arround for a codebase that as a noob i could understand somewhat, that worked out of the box and required less changes from the starting point to get to my goal, Smaug was that for me tho many times i almost used AFK because it was closer again, but there were just some aspects of it i could not grasp, so i never used it. I had never played a Smaug, The games i played prior were Sentience (Rom), Core 2036 (MudOS), TerraFirma (Aber?), Materia Magica (Rom) and Solar Eclipse (Rot?)



I agree, which is also why i think Codebase is such a non issue. It is not the tools you use, it is what you create with the tools that will make the game fun to play.

SO much more i can add, but no time, Sorry for the further derail OP.

Wow, when I offered apologies to Myra for derailing this thread, I had no idea it was going to get even further derailed this far… :lol:

As for why codebase might matter in an advert for players, I too tend to stay within a 'comfort zone', and like Kayle, while I have tried others I've never really enjoyed relearning the commands and feel of codebases that weren't in the Smaug family.

That'll teach you for apologizing… :lol:

I guess so. :surprised:

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Looking at her second ad, I don't think the thread got derailed at all. Considering this is a site by Devs and for Devs, the commentary has been pretty much what you'd expect from friends trying to be helpful. Missing is all the negative sniping you might see elsewhere.

Myself, I think the first ad was fine, but in it's brevity, it lacked "punch". There's two kinds of ads, basically. Intellectual and emotional (physical ads being banned in most countries, these days). An intellectual ad will be filled with facts so the player can rationally decide which game to choose. An emotional ad, which is not so common in mudding, would skip the facts and simply create a desire.

This second ad is a combination of both. The first paragraph is filled with warm words - "fun", "happy", "own", "hope", and "love". Then, there are bullet points for the brain. Well done, Myra.

i would agree with sandi there, the second ad certainly would attract more people than the first. i'm curious what would constitute physical advertising though. is that the kind of advertising cat houses use in amsterdam where they put naked chicks in windows?