Impacatus
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#1 id:37088 Posted Nov 3, 2009, 6:51 pm
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I was just thinking, it might be more of a novelty than anything else, but it might be accessible from some places where regular clients aren't available.
I would think it would have to be something specially written to allow for the limited output options. It may be difficult to run a traditional MUD, but a simple strategy game might be possible.
Would this be allowed by the companies that run the networks? I know there are a lot of chatbots on AIM, but would they allow something like this? What about the other networks?
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Impacatus
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#4 id:37091 Posted Nov 3, 2009, 11:01 pm
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Interesting. Is there a running example up somewhere I could check out?
Quote:I had a post about Wave and M**s just recently.
That looks like it has some possibilities too.
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Barm
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#5 id:37106 Posted Nov 4, 2009, 10:31 am
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I was toying with the idea of adding a Jabber server to my project and picked up a couple of used books from Amazon but I haven't dug into them yet. I don't see why it wouldn't work for a mud except for the lack of formatting, color, and limited walls-o-text.
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Impacatus
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#6 id:37112 Posted Nov 4, 2009, 4:05 pm
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Barm said:I was toying with the idea of adding a Jabber server to my project and picked up a couple of used books from Amazon but I haven't dug into them yet. I don't see why it wouldn't work for a mud except for the lack of formatting, color, and limited walls-o-text.
The only thing I could think of is if the people who run the IM services would shut it down. I'm not too clear on how these work on the technical side, so I don't know if they'd have any grounds to do so, but if it's using their resources somehow, they might not like it.
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Barm
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#7 id:37126 Posted Nov 4, 2009, 6:55 pm
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Impacatus said:
The only thing I could think of is if the people who run the IM services would shut it down. I'm not too clear on how these work on the technical side, so I don't know if they'd have any grounds to do so, but if it's using their resources somehow, they might not like it.
If I do it, I'll write my own server so anyone with a client that supports XMPP (Pidgin, Trillian, etc) could connect and play.
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#8 id:37137 Posted Nov 5, 2009, 1:29 am
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Makes sense. Does anyone know how these things work? Do they run through a central server or not?
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