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From: IronSoft@pgh.nauticom.net (Andrew L. Tepper)
Subject: Re: MUD argument: please ease my mind!
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owls@interport.net (J. I. Drasner) wrote:

>In my fervent quest to recreate those golden days of Zork (heh heh), I
>tried doing a little MUDding, and as some of you will probably agree,
>found it sadly lacking. I mean, I was never much for running around,
>killing everyone in sight, and stealing their clothes. But, you know, when
>I used to play Zork I always wished that it could be real, and this seemed
>the closest equivalent.

Yeah, MUDs are garbage. It's a shame, because I can think of lots of
really cool multi-player puzzles: Social interaction puzzles based on
the prisoner's dilema, mechanical puzzles, communication puzzles, turn
based coordination puzzles. I've been hopeing that Michael Roberts
would create TADS 3 as a MUD writing system.

Andy Tepper

