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From: "SkyPhydeaux" <dwesely@cox-internet.com>
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Subject: Re: Uh? I don't know....what's it supposed to be?
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 17:18:04 -0500
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"Janne Raevaara" <jraevaar@hotmail.com> seethed in message
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>
> Max <Not@home.anymore> wrote in message
> news:tlllvl9dom6u0b@corp.supernews.co.uk...
> > MUDs, call me lame or whatever you will, but what are they?
> >
> > I have a little programming knowlege, and could quite easily create a text
> > based game (like those books that you choose your own fate) with ASCII art
> > that anyone would like to submit. But it's only an idea.
>
> MUD = Multi User Dungeon. Multiplayer games somewhere between original text
> based adventures and nethack. With worst bits from both.
>
> Don't bother to code one. The code itself is not complex, but as with rpgs
> and roguelikes the work to be done is enormous. And nobody plays them
> anyways...
>
>

There not THAT bad... and not nobody plays them. I got on Realms of Despair
(www.game.org) just to check and just now they have 410 players. And that's just
one.  Viva la MUD!!!