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<LI><em>From</em>: Martin Keegan <<A HREF="mailto:martin#cam,sri.com">martin#cam,sri.com</A>></LI>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997 clawrenc#cup,hp.com wrote:
> In <<A HREF="msg00352.html">Pine.GSO.3.96.970803121452.27011I-100000@dryslwyn</A>>, on 08/03/97
> at 09:50 AM, Martin Keegan <martin#cam,sri.com> said:
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> >BTW - there's an Australian talker (called Forest or something) which
> >is better than most of the muds out there.
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> Come on Martin. You ought to know better than to drop such
> unsupported generalisations in here. You are challenged sirrah!
> Support your position!
Ok. Forest has extremely well written descriptions, reminiscent of
the narrative in Infocom's Trinity, and has the potential to suck a user
into its world by distracting him/her.
My favourite part is the disincentive to quit; typing quit brings up a
(assumedly) random interesting message, like
Cannot find command 'quit' (Y to quit):
or
So you were the one that stole the cabbages! (Y to quit):
this (together with similar features) is so well done that it goes well
beyond gimmickry. Discworld (David Bennett's MUD, not the books) does this
well too.
Despite being a talker, it has a "clan" system, around which the talker
basically revolves. Conversing with fellow clan members is easier than
with non-members, so clans become a social construct. They are influencing
my idea of my "house" system. The clan system generates player groupings
much more strongly than most of the mud equivalents I have seen.
In short, talkers, esp the good ones, have a lot to offer the mud design
world, esp in terms of presentation.
Mk
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00286" HREF="msg00286.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Graphic MUDS.</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00254" HREF="msg00254.html">Graphic MUDS.</A></strong>,
Jeff Kesselman <a href="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</a>, Mon 28 Jul 1997, 03:34 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00253" HREF="msg00253.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Motivating people</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Mon 28 Jul 1997, 00:30 GMT
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