Did BBSes have IRPGs (e.g., http://idlerpg.net)?
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antdude · 2019-08-09 01:15

I assume no?

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[deleted] · 2019-08-09 02:38

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turrican · 2019-08-09 05:14

Never seen anything that would qualify in the traditional sense, but I
do suppose you could look at afk grind scripting of muds/doors
(shoutout to Mutants!) as a sort of proto-clicker playstyle.

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ominous_squirrel · 2019-08-09 08:38

Yeah, the gimmick of Idlerpg just wouldn’t work when phone lines were
a limited commodity. Some BBSes charged by the minute. Length of login
time was a bit of a bragging right, though. I certainly wrote AFK
scripts for MajorMUD and TradeWars back in the day.

There were chat games that weren’t meant to be played 100% actively. I
remember there was a gunslinger type game that was really popular in
MBBS chat.