Seeing as I've played many great mu*'s that have disappeared, was wondering if I'd run into anybody who I'd know..
I started RPing on a D&D AOL "forum" (forget the name..the age of magick?) 'fore I got hooked on mud's (and thank god for that).
The OTHER Armageddon, the apocalyptic city based one, was my fav and first before it disappeared. played Solarin. I figured many of the players would have eventually tried this Armageddon.
Ancient Anguish----> Dark and Shattered Lands -----> ARM
Muddog----------->Mirtos----------->Armageddon.
Mario-> Aiden's Chronicals(sp?)-> Diablo -> Armageddon
TempusMud ------> Message Board -----> Armageddon
Shadows of Isildur.
Imperium (small, out of the way H&S mud) ---> Armageddon
Dark Castle (I was Kate/Mirth on there) --> here
Merentha ---> Here
Tried lots of moos, mucks and muds-----> New Moon---> many year lull ----> paid dissatisfied customer of Threshold-----> Armageddon
Alter Aeon --> Avendar --> Harshlands --> Shadows of Isildur --> Arm.
The Eternal City --> Harshlands --> Armageddon
PernMush (and many other MUSHes)----> The Magic Realm (dial up BBS mud) ---> Darkover mud---> Aardwolf---> Threshold ---> here
RealmsMud (LP) ----> Armageddon
I've cheated on Arm with a few Mushes, but it was never serious. I swear!
Achaea ---> Armageddon.
Yes, I improved! :)
Armageddon was the first MUD I ever took seriously, although I'd been sampling muds for years before I got into Arm. All thanks to Alamos, I am here now.
Yeah, Rhydin free-form on aol chatrooms first. Dragonrealms by Simutronics (before it left aol) then utter devastation for six months or so after it went pay-to-play, until I discovered the mud community. I've probably dabbled in thousands. Lots of SMAUG and SWR (imperial navy forever, bitches!) and little games with neat gimick codes.
Wow, every time I think of a mud that I played for a week before moving on in search of the perfect game, it reminds me of three more that I tried out. Thank god I came along to Arm.
..on that thought, why are you trying to look back? You've found the right place and the right people right here.
Redemption(a piss poor RP turned to hardcore H&S) for about 9-10 years-----> here.
Arm is the best there is. No doubt.
The Eternal City- For a while I was the best cestus user in the game, I started a long time before they introduced them, so when they did I picked them up right away. His name was Scortlius, and I used to take solo trips to the thug/brute place far northeast of the city. Then I went on and was taking out cineran soldiers before they went to pay-to-play, would have stayed but I didn't feel like dishing out cash.
Then here.
Rhydin before it was Rhydin and years of Rhydin after it puked into being.
:arrow: Dragon Realms :arrow: Some H -N- S MUD :arrow: Accursed Lands :arrow: Armageddon :arrow: SOI :arrow: Accursed Lands :arrow: Armageddon
Threshold --> Armageddon
I tried lots of others though, but never stuck with one for more than a few weeks.
Angela Christine
Quote from: "Angela Christine"I tried lots of others though, but never stuck with one for more than a few weeks.
If those don't count then I came to Armageddon straight away.
The only other "mud" I'd like to play is OtherSpace, but after Arm's codebase, it just doesn't compare.
Sojourn/Toril -> SoI (for like a week) -> Armageddon
Carrionfields --> Armageddon
Challengermud - The Final Challenge - Everquest - World of Warcraft - Armageddon
Dragon Court freeform chatrooms -> Utopia roleplaying forum -> dabbling in various MUDs -> Armageddon
PS1---->PS2---->Gamecube---->DS---->The Sims---->X-Box---->Armageddon
But in no specific order. I've always been a gamer but I never was into MUDs until my husband introduced me and I've been hooked on Arm since the first day I really tried it out.
Role playing in chat rooms->Dragon Realms->Achaea->Arm
1995 or so: Downloaded the CircleMUD code. Compiled it on Linux on my, like, 386. Made a few rooms. Got bored with it. I actually hadn't played any MUDs to a significant degree that I recall.
Summer 2000: had absolutely no clue what my major professor wanted me to do. Looked for a Circle/Diku MUD. Took my mage up 40 painful levels on Aaezure Odyssey before I got smart and started multiplaying with a cleric.
Somewhere in there, I distinctly remember visiting Armageddon. I apped a character, got approved, stepped outside the bar, and was promptly lost in a blinding sandstorm. Gave up.
2006: Found Arm again. Apped a character. Entered the 'rinth. Apped another character...
Darkemud --> a bunch of clones of Darkemud --> Clandestine --> several years of not mudding because I was sick to death of hack and slash --> Armageddon
Excalibur -> Kallisti -> YAMud -> Worlds of Carnage -> Arm -> The Masquerade -> Arm.
-LoD
Last Outpost...Carrion Fields...doomMUD...Europa...Europa II...Armageddon
Crimson MUD II --> Accursed Lands --> Armageddon
(Something I won't name here) -> AOL Chatrooms -> Dragon Spires -> The Eternal City both before and after it moved to Skotos/Some other skotos games -> Armageddon -> Achaea -> Armageddon.
I tried a bunch of others out in the meantime. Basically, I couldn't take any other game as seriously after experiencing Arm. I'd look around and go, "Psh. This isn't harsh. Look at this grassy knoll. Look at the trees. Look at the water. This guy's bowing to me. And I already have a silver sword. What the hell is this?"
You probably can imagine for yourselves.
relams of fandra ---> Cities of Mdhoria ---> SOI ----> Armageddon
That's a steady indcrease from hack and slash to RPI.... Wonder if I'll end up in a MUSH next..?
Perilous Realms -> Edge of Darkness -> Arm -> long hiatus -> UO (sorta) ->Arm -> EQ:OA (sorta) -> Arm
-- X
Darklord ==> Godwars ==> Combo Dbz's (odd highschool phase) ==> SWR's ==> Age of Legends ==> SOI ==> Harshlands ==> Arm
Yeah Darklord was the first mud I played back in high school.
Then I went to godwars muds, where I learned most of my pk skillz.
Dbz muds were an odd phase, went through everything from circle to mux.
SWR was my first taste of rp, kidnapping space queens, stealing space ships, rape and pillage all the way.
Age of Legends was pretty classic, was the first RPI I played. Some crazy shit happened there, I'm -still- banned from that game. Something about using vampire powers on little girl npc's and sending in logs (oops)
SOI sucks.
Harshlands I played for quite a while, still do sometimes, but the pbase is dying.
ARM my current home, I love you, I hate you...but I'm here, like a nasty case of scabies.
I tried RetroMud for about a month, then moved on to Armageddon. Basically my first MUD was Arm. Talking about a learning curve, heh... but the immersion of the game is so amazing, so I'm still stuck here.
Alien Vs Predator Mud, Retro Mud, Achea dreams of divine lands, Shadows of Isuilder, Grendels Revenge,Carrion fields, Armageddon
Threshold -> Armageddon.
With a brief overlap in between before realizing where my real interest lay.
Oh yeah, and my very first MUD experience was Aliens vs Predator, haha. I'm so not counting that.
I never tried a MUD until I played Armageddon, so there is no tree of previous lovers for me. I did play UO before Armageddon, so if those things count, then:
UO -> Armageddon
Armageddon is my first mud ever. I feel very sorry now for the people that had to put up with my first character because I was sooooo lost. The first time I logged in, I didn't understand the command for how to walk, (and yes, I did read the help files first, but I thought you had to type "walk west" which obviously didn't work). Once I figured that out, I got lost, couldn't figure out how to log out, freaked out and had to call my friend who'd introduced me to the mud to find out what the hell I had to type in order to quit. Sad. I'd say it took me about 1-2yrs to really feel like I had most of the commands down.
But you are still here. Thank you, for the blood.
I am. That's why it's called Crackageddon. :)
DaShadow's (a.k.a. Dark Shadow's) MUD for about 6 months, then Armageddon for the past 13.5 years.
Farside (was an imm, wrote zones) -> Blue Facial / PK Mud -> Arm
I blame Quantum Binary for introducing me to Armageddon. I still remember being at his place and him showing me Armageddon.
#BLKDRAGON*INN IRC Freeform --> Sojourn/TorilMUD--> DarkeMUD--> Ascension--> Forever's End RPI (Wade dynasty)--> The X-Files MUD--> Faerun.com (pre-Rauvyon)--> Forever's End RPI (Duke dynasty)--> Xyllomer--> OtherSpace MUSH--> Shadows of Isildur--> Armageddon.
Underlight, eternal city, castle of marrach, accursed lands, threshold, crossroads vr1, and finally armageddon.
I find underlight and armageddon best roleplaying experiences.
Crossroads vr1 and Accursed Lands are games of extremely good possibilities. But Crossroads was a mud with a special client that was ment to be pay to play, but never got out of beta and then got closed downn, it was probably the most interesting and well crafted mud I ever played in. Accursed Lands is very advanced in terms of code, Armageddon alas cant even come close to some of the nice features that AL has. But ... no matter how GMs try, they cant get the rp qualitiy of Armageddon.
ChaosMUD -> { MPV/MC/etc emlen crap; Sojourn/Toril/Basternae/Duris/etc; VampWars/etc kavir crap; Sanctuary/etc } -> PKMud -> arm
Threshold -> Armageddon
Ancient Anguish -> Artic -> Crescent City (wod mush) -> Arm
I mudded, wanted RP, so I mushed, but I missed/wanted code, so I found Arm.
Was odd, I remember searching alta vista (oh yes, alta vista) for "mud mush" "role play mud" because the term rpi or rpmud was foreign to me.
I had like 3 characters rejected before they finally let me play and then I was probably the biggest retarded n00b we have ever seen, but in the end it was worth it.
Dragonrealms>New Moon> Harshlands>Forever's End Mud>Arctic>Armageddon>Forever's End Mud 2>Shadows of Isildur>Accursed Lands
There's quite a few others.. but these have been the most significant..
HotDancer
The Void -> PKmud -> Armageddon -> World of Warcraft -> back to Arm
There was one before The Void that introduced me to mudding when I was in High School but I forget the name.. The Void is where I really got to love the whole text-based genre and from there I went to PKmud after The Void went through its own personal meltdown. PKmud was fun because it was simply that, PKing. You pick your class and boom there's a countdown and just like laser-tag you run around and eliminate people. It was there that I met some Arm'ers and got pulled into the game that would claim me forever more... I got quickly addicted to World of Warcraft but I missed the Roleplaying... To me, this is a testimonial to the quality of Armageddon that I would choose a text-based environment rather than the graphical one of WoW. Then again maybe it's like switching from Crack to Heroin and back to Crack. I don't know.
Artic (because my friends played) > Armageddon (cause I was looking for a place to roleplay, and I love Darksun.
Moria (1987)
Epic
perilouse realms
arm
Here! :)
Darkness 'n' Despair -> Sojourn / Toril -> Threshold -> Armageddon
Took me a few years (and some wasted cash thank you Threshold) to find my home but I definitely won't be moving on.
AlexMUD (1993) -> Arm
Lots of forum based games--->Orion (long gone simple MUD)--->Aevion--->Armageddon
Dawn of Time (original) -> Lothlorien -> Crappy pk muds -> Armageddon.
I've played so many muds I forget which was my first. I came here from Distant Lands, though. It had RP...but they also allowed people to not be in RP. Those in character and out of character are unable to interact with each other, and you can only kill people when both you and them are in character. Not permadeath, though. Screw it.
Imperial Diku (1992 onwards) - > JediMUD (1994 onwards) - > Armageddon (last 6 years)
In between I tried GrimneMUD, AlexMUD, Shattered Realms, Callisti and lotsa other hack n slash muds.
DragonRealms (until the pay-to-play) --> mingled at a low/no RP graphic furre game called Furcadia while playing Threshold for a few years --> Armageddon!! And Armageddon I luv the best, and Armageddon I'll stay! :wink:
D&D with my friends ---> Baldur's Gate PS2 and PC ---> General love for fantasy/LOTR stuff ---> Here
D&D with pals (1992-present) ---> CRPGS ---> Elysium (ugh) ---> Cardea (even worse) ---> Armageddon ---> World of Warcraft ---> Armageddon
MUME (warlorded on it, therefore you should all fear my PK skills!) ---> Arm
Played bits and pieces of MUDs in between but these were only two that ever held my attention.
Rivers of MUD (3.5 years, also staffed a bit) -> Realms of Discordia [Chaos Ascending] (2 years) -> Armageddon (add a month to GDB join date).
I visited a few other MUDs, but didn't really stay for more than a week. I've been to Savage Wars, which never really opened, stayed for a while in the Builder's Academy, learned the horrors of dastardly older players in Abbotoir, and fooled around in Edge of Midnight. :P
Threshold in '99 > Daedal Macabre (as a builder) > Adventures Unlimited (still there as a builder) > Threshold > Ancient Anguish > Threshold > Star Wars > Adventures Unlimited > Threshold > Armageddon
Dragonrealms (for seven years, including some pay to play, *shudders*) --> Armageddon
I was drawn to arma by perma-death and enforced roleplay. I came to love the atmosphere and brutality.
Over the past few years, i've tried a few different muds but they're all icky in my opinion for varying reasons.
Threshold->Darke and various Darke offshoots->Armageddon
Threshold -> Armageddon
Some LP Muds long forgotten --> Some DIKU Muds long forgotton --> Arctic (1993ish)--> Armageddon (1994ish) --> Arctic /Armaggedon
I've tried hundreds of muds in the last forteen years or so. Only stuck with two. Was an active Overlord on Arctic for a few years.
Wheel of Time MUD -> Achaea -> Imperian -> Lusternia (Yup, Horrible amount of IRE MUDs) ->Armageddon
Spread across say.... last 5 years? Something around that.
Quote from: "InsertCleverNameHere"DragonRealms (until the pay-to-play) --> mingled at a low/no RP graphic furre game called Furcadia while playing Threshold for a few years --> Armageddon!! And Armageddon I luv the best, and Armageddon I'll stay! :wink:
Furcadia *axes head* I actually .. accidentally started playing that. And my god, I figured out I am never to be a furry. I spent most of my time on one server, a vampiric rat who was horribly racist, and would kill any other furry who walked in (because who the hell is gonna play a rat) So yeah, I got banned from quite a few servers pulling stunts like that. I still do remember the mini fighting game with the guns where the dogs in trench coats chased eachother around. Jesus christ that was cheesy, what a waste of time.
(And hopefully in five years I'm not saying the same thing about arm)
Cryptic Inspirations --> Eternal Struggle --> ArmageddonMUD
And some Godwars thrown in there for good measure. MUME too, it was
fun.
That Aliens vs Predator MUD was pretty spiffy as well.
Medievia > Third Millenium > Jellybean > Armageddon
Roleplaying in IRC -> RuinsMUD -> poking around on various MUDs for years -> Shadows of Isildur for about 3 years -> Armageddon + World of Wacraft
Lets see. MUD wise.
Threshold(did not subscribe thankfully)--->Achea(I quit soon, hated it)--->Elendor MUSH(fun but almost never active)--->Accursed Lands(no roleplaying at all)--->Armageddon(best MUD I have ever played so far.)
Threshold - > Armageddon (more or less strait)
My friend told me about this awesome RP enforced Threshold game that kicked ass, so I went and joined up and it was awesome and I had big plans for my rogue. Then, my friend realised just how bad it truely sucked, and found Armageddon. I didn't want to, but he made me app and I played all of 5 exhilerating minutes of Arm before going link-dead for 3 months about a week of which I played Threshold before realising it sucked.
THree months later I got curious about that one mud my buddy had ranted about, so I logged on (about 800 coins shorter than what I started with after 3 months of link-death) and played. Found the rinth. Died. Reapped.
Albeit short breaks during which I play the xbox or one of a couple hack 'n slash muds I still like to fall back on because of the low maturity required, I've been playing ever since!
Actually, this month some time marks my 2 year reunion. Or was it three? I'll have to check. I hope shes not mad at me. (Armageddon, that is)
Armageddon is the first and only Mud I've played, and now I'm hopelessly addicted. I have my husband to thank for that! I probably would have remained completely ignorant of even the existance of Muds if he hadn't have already played. Incidentally, he helped to guide me through the trials and tribulations of newbiedom, with a minimum of bumps and bruises.
-Irulan
Avalon(I think that was it, but only briefly) - wotmud.org - Armageddon
Avalon sucked ass but introduced me to the idea of text-based gaming, wotmud.org ate maybe a year and a half of my life before I realized what a hole it was, and then, through TMS, I found Armageddon. Mmmm...
I've played alot of AoR, Godwards and Feudal Realms, and various other Muds, but Armageddon is my home.
-WP
Ah, not really had many years of it, but I started out playing a few Tolkein based games like MUME and Shadows of Isildur.
I found armageddon though, haven't left yet.
Played D&D type games, this is my first MUD. I don't plan on leaving any time soon.
DragonRealms > Unwritten Legends (still play) > Did some experimenting with Carrion Fields (UGH!) And Shattered Kingdoms (UGH!) > Armageddon
I can't tell if other people just hadn't played the muds I had or if everyone else is just smart enough to not mention 'those.'
Crazy-high number of people from Threshold, though. Wowa-weewa.
Hehehe, gotta love MUME...Highlight of that career, warlording a troll :P
Dragonrealms ---> Armageddon.
I'm still tempted to go back and play DR once in awhile - I have one of the most powerful moon mages in the game.
My pay to play days are done, though.
Fun topic!
AD&D -> Aalynor's Nexus (of Mordor codebase) -> New Worlds (opposite of Arm) -> Armageddon (newbie in awe)
Forgotten Kingdoms MUD ... Then to Arm.
Played in a few other muds here or there(Read close to hundred or so), played FK for long long time, for awhile it was a very nice RP mud with a wonderfully done Forgotten Realms thing, but it slowly degraded into an equipment hunt, and staff favorites.
Played on a few starwars muds, was also interesting, but not enough RP for my tastes. Found a few other RP muds that were not too bad, but they over all, weren't what I was looking for in themes nor code. Found Arm and stuck with it.
Creeper
Well, my history is one of steady improvement.
I mucked around a bit at first, never sticking with anything for too long. I even tried Threshold for a bit, but I can't remember why I stopped playing.
Then I played on Achaea for a bit. I admit it. Then I heard about a more serious MUD called Imperian, and that's where the fun began. They had something close to RP there, and I joined this new guild that was pretty much everything I wanted to play as.
Over the next year or two, we built this guild up along with the surrounding faction. We didn't understand why so few wanted to play a group of tough survivalists with a tradition of cannibalism living in a frozen hellhole. Well, we put the fear of the five minute death period into our enemies, eventually.
Then the thing got popular and all the socialites started pouring in. The thing got stale, and someone suggested Armageddon was more along the lines of what I was looking for.
Here I am.
Oh, what a fun thread!
Other muds I played at the same time I have denoted with a / mark. So, let's see here...
Dragonfire (an LPmud that I found via gopher, my first!) -> to...
EotL
the Revenge of the End of the Line part II (.. Stanford kids, you know how it is) /
Genocide (one of the first "war" PK muds. Very innovative and cool, still have the address memorised) /
Lost Souls (fantastically amazing code, still active, still play, still code there)
-> to...
Armageddon
When it was hosted on isca. Too damn complicated. -> to...
LOTS OF ROMS:
Medthievia, Black Knights Legacy, Helliconia, Carrion Fields /
Rites of Passage /
Dark Heart (one of the creators of which went on to help found Neopets?!) -> to...
GodWars (yes, yes, I know... I know) when we developed the Lords of War codebase/branch of it -> to...
Daedal Macabre (great code, nice imp, generally retarded players) -> to...
Armageddon again!
The end.
There's a myriad of *HUNDREDS* of muds in there that I played on, but I only listed the ones that really stuck with me. I'm still active on Lost Souls; that place is like a home to me. I luffs it.
Dark Age Of Camelot > Achaea > Armageddon.
Used to love DAOC, my first taste of online gaming, but I got a lil bit addicted to it and had to go cold turkey to get the monkey off my back.
Was a strange experience, as i played in a strict RP guild, on a PK based server. The defination of culture-clash.
Played Achaea for a few weeks but soon tired of THEGRINDtm. Boring.
Then I found Armageddon last month through TMS, and I love it.
starcraft-starcraft broodwar----- diablo 2 and D2 LOD-------HL counterstrike------armageddon----- command and conqure generals
i still play most of them except diabloe and cs
If we're just talking about Muds I actually played it's:
MateriaMagica > Achaea > Lusternia > Armageddon
Yeah you could probably imagine when I got my first guy up and going here I was more or less going "So where do I bash". Well I'm still more or less like that, hah.
Dragonrealms (1996) ---> Armageddon (2001)
I've always played non Muds in addition to my muds. I cut my teeth on Mechwarrior 2 and Descent, and then spent many years playing counter-strike. Mech2 remains one of my favorite all time games.
Hmm... I stumbled across MUDding when I was researching clerical magick for a tabletop RPG I was running. Spent a few years (off and on) playing on NightmareLPMUD, eventually building zones and such in my spare time.
I was still playing that one when I met Varak who kept telling me these amazing stories (to this point, I was of the mind that RP in a MUD was similar to that which would one day become MMORPGs, heh). I figured part of it was Varak's astounding imagination, but eventually I created an account.
Wasn't long before I was spreading the word amongst my tabletop troupe, I haven't looked back since.
Late 90's... been too long... was searching for muds, logging in and creating characters and usually getting bored after a few minutes and leaving. Then I logged on to Arm and was prompted to "Choose thy fate", create a character, and write a 'sdesc'. I was like "Whoah, you go by sdesc's here? That's more realistic... gotta try this." That was what drew me in, but the combat system, perma-death, and harsh world full of struggle is what kept me coming back. Just can't get that desperate, rugged, gritty feel anywhere else...
My friend got me hooked on this Wheel of Time H&S MUD. That was good for a time, but I kept asking people where the Dragon Reborn was, and they all said, "Dunno. But you can kill Mazrim Taim if you find him." So I went looking for a more immersive RP environment and came across SoI shortly after the first LotR movie came out. Of course that was the cool shit.
Played there for a while, then I had questions on how to play shady characters and a few of my friends spoke volumes about Arm's harsh atmosphere, so I actually came looking for someone to get general RP tips from. <g> Then I looked over the documentation files, thought "Holy hell.. that guy buried a city. This is too cool." Played on and off several times over the past year and a half.
Started on Achaea (c'mon, it was on the top of the list! the TOP!), the left shortly after hearing two players chatting openly about the exactly stats of their weapons. I came to the conclusion that roleplay just doesn't work unless everyone HAS to do it.
And the I found Arm, which was everything and far far more than I ever expected a mud could be.
I remember playing diablo II for hours and hours, day and night.. Then i discovered armmud and i started playing it night&day, i was playing it just like diablo at the beginning, but it was still fun cause PK is funn and brings satisfaction!
I started on a MUD called DaShadow's (basic DIKU Hack N Slash). That MUD, Armageddon, and Arctic all had a room you could go in that was 'linked' to the other MUD's and chat with people from all three. While in the room for DaShadow's, someone from Armageddon convinced me to come try it. I never turned back. That was in about 1992. Came on staff in 1993.
Ultima Online, a game that was great and went more and more down the shitter with each new edition. Now instead of the original 2 worlds I beleive it's somewhere around 8 or something. From there I went to playing HL counter strike and starcraft, as far as muds I toyed with a White Wolf mud to get my vamp: masquerade fix and later a friend of mine at school turned me onto armageddon one day in class. Only been WoW and Arm since.
Kitmud(builder/imm) - Dark castle - Arm
Mmm...Started about 10 years ago.
1. "Teneria & Ayenee" - Yahoo Chat RP :oops:
Someone from there introduced me to:
2. Illusions of the Mind (tiny little hack and slash)
Played there for YEARS AND YEARS, it got crappy for a while so I went to:
3. Clandestine (Whoo, Cuusardo!)
Stopped *playing* muds and hopped between IOM & Cland building and imm'ing. Tried Furcadia at one point too, it was awful. Then another staff member from IOM introduced me to:
4. Arm!! And now I'm here to stay. Once I get out of my solo-rp burn-out slump.
Almost exactly ten years ago I started roleplaying on a MUSH based on the "Wheel of Time" series. I met my now-husband there.
After that MUSH closed down, I really didn't do any kind of online gaming or RP until Star Wars Galaxies opened in 2003. I remember being really intimidated by the thought of virtual "combat," because I really suck at video games. SWG attracted me because there were lots of non-combat things to do...I could play an entertainer, or a crafter, or many other things. But I really got into SWG once I created my completely awesome Imperial doctor officer chick. She was a total loyalist, ambitious in her career, conducted biological experiments on Rebel prisoners, did combat support for Imperial forces...mmm yummy. I was regarded as one of the best doctors on the server, for my better-than-anyone ability to buff other characters with the meds I crafted with my characters' own two little hands, and also because I just kicked ass at healing my teammates during combat. Later I also became an uber swordswoman and happily wielded some of the best weapons on the server, crafted by my own wonderful husband's Imperial officer / weaponsmith character. So I had gone from being intimidated by combat to enjoying it a fair bit.
We really, really tried to focus on RP in SWG. We founded a roleplay city, the only one on our server. We ran RP events and plots. I was "famous" as the figurehead of roleplayers on our server. "Oh wow, you're THAT person?!" But once holocrons came into the game...and you know what I mean if you played SWG at the time...everything went downhill fast. All the "roleplayers" went out and started "grinding professions," just like everyone else, in order to maybe unlock their Jedi character. There was just no roleplay to be found anymore, because no one had any time for it.
After the SWG debacle, my husband and I switched to EQ2 when it opened. And I tried to start roleplay stuff up there on one of the "unofficial" roleplay servers. Events, plots, an RP guild...but I became convinced that real roleplay, real character development, can't happen in an environment where it's not required. It's just too easy to slip out of character, lack of permadeath means nothing is scary, lots of alt characters means I can go do something else when I get bored or happily twink myself, etc. Roleplay in MMOs now means "look at the new outfit my character got" and "hey baby, let's get virtually married."
Feeling starved for roleplay and being generally interested in virtual world theory, I was cruising around the 'net one day, reading something on Raph Koster's blog...and stumbled across a reference to ARM. "Huh, interesting," I thought. "May as well check it out, even though I'm not sure I'll like a text-based environment again..."
Armageddon Mud... It was a bit gorish at the start.
The Eternal City -----> Elendor ------>Armageddon
plus a dozen or so muds that I never got into. Those are the three that I had long lasting characters (well not long lasting with Arm) and actually had fun with, untill TEC when pay for play. Still play Elendor.
Started with Armageddon. Tried probably a good seventy to a hundred other muds over the next 5 years. Stayed with Armageddon. Heh.
I remember my first char still, I believe he began his life by attacking the first dwarf he saw for loot. It happened to be an NPC dwarven miner that destroyed him in like, two rounds of combat with bare hands. Heh.
My VERY first character, when I was fresh from H/S MUDs attacked a mul. With bare fists.
I thought, 'hey look, a slave, they must be weak'. BAM!
This thread is still going, well shit son... And that's not nearly as bad as my first day on SOI, I attacked a guard so I could level up. Apparently there was no leveling up to do, just hard time in jail, then the mines later, as I was a repeat offender.
Wow, I've had a long road to Armageddon, past and back again. I always come back to Arm. I have no idea if the order of these are correct, but these are just some I remember.
Lambdamoo --> Sprawl Moo ---> The Great Hunt MUD ---> Sanctuary MUD ----> Various other hack and slash muds, including an imm spot/builder on a few that were in progress, but never amounted to much ---> a Wheel of Time MUSH or MUD or something that was roleplay required, maybe the one mentioned above, although the code didn't enforce anything ---> Armageddon (that brings me up to about 10 years ago) ---> Ultima Online ---- Dark Age of Camelot --- various other MMORPHS ----> Armageddon (about five years ago) ---> other various online games including FF and Warcraft ----> Armageddon (this brings me to now). This is the first time I've stopped playing and started back and not had my favorite city destroyed or some other crushing detail that made it even harder to get started again. I always seem to come back.
Gawynn
SillyMUD -----> Apocalypse -----> PernMUSH -----> DuneMUSH -----> SillyMUD (Revisited) -----> ArmageddonMUD
Even though I was an ignorant turd when I came to Arm (not a feces....that's Dyrinis's department *grin*), I knew I'd found home after just two days of Arm. Been here ever since. Not interested in any other MU*
Tried Harshlands once (at a friend's behest) Bleah!
Tried LOTR MU once (at a friend's behest) *snore*
Thus far, Armageddon has been the only mud that I've truly played. Shes a tough gal, but shes mine and there'll never be another!
Epitome->Aldara I(H/S)->Sanctuary->The Dominion->PK Mud->Arm.....
Needless to say, I remember Armageddon when it was a hack and slash. Shit, does that make me old or Armageddon old??
Gemstone -> Avatar -> Oblivion (and someone said Dawn of Time was original, ha!) -> Armageddon.
Played many, many, many muds before and after, but Armageddon is still the bestest! Special thanks to a few people from Oblivion for turning me onto Armageddon as it was going down.
Started mudding with Arm and have never left. Still a console gamer, but as far as muds (or whatever) go, Arm is the one and only.
A-Ac-Ach.....
I CAN'T SAY IT! IT'S TOO HORRIBLE! MAKE IT GO AWAY!
Then some other crappy muds then arm.
My monster thread has been growing nicely, I see.
GROW, MY CHILD, GROW!
Quote from: "Antigone"My monster thread has been growing nicely, I see.
GROW, MY CHILD, GROW!
too bad your manhood has failed to follow it.
Legend of the Red Dragon --> Barren Realms Elite --> Usurper --> Fourlands (I was an assassin turned emporer before the game closed) --> Armageddon
Legend of the Red Dragon, Barren Realms Elite, and Usurper probably don't count, but that is where my online gaming craze took root.
Fourlands and Armageddon I have traded on and off over the last eight years (if memory serves me right).
Fourlands was interesting. I was an assassin with the goal of killing the emporer, and in the end, the emporer handed me the throne to go on a quest for an artifact my character had.
Now I am here on Arm! I wonder how far I can take an assassin here?
Armageddon. period. This isn't my first RP, but it's my first MUD. All my other RPs have been free-form, forum or IM style. Nothing code-based other than like, Morrowind.
Quote from: "HarborGeek"
Legend of the Red Dragon, Barren Realms Elite, and Usurper probably don't count, but that is where my online gaming craze took root.
But they are awesome.
Iron realms-->gemstone--->whispers of time lost--->SoL---->here
Dragon's Gate - Gemstone - Armageddon
Age of Legend: Tales of the Lance, a few random muds, Armageddon.
I started at AoL, which was, and still is a H&S/RP encouraged mud, about 10 years ago, and after a couple years, became imm there. After about a year, the owner of the mud and I had a skirmish (yeah, let's call it that) because we disagreed on how to handle a player who the owner thought was twinking (he wasn't). He ended up banning me from the mud.
I hopped around for a while, looking for a RP mud, and ended up playing at a particular one - I cannot remember the name now, and someone there was irked that I refused to break from my character's rp, and he finally told me to try a RPi. "What's a RPi?" I asked. "RolePlaying Intensitive. Like they do at Armageddon Mud." Cue lightbulb. He also warned me that "there's a steep learning curve", and that "they eat newbies."
I like challenges. So I checked Arm's website out, spent about 6 hours reading the docs, and nervously made my first character. I also co-founded another RP-enforced mud at about the same time, which flopped pretty quick (I later found out RP-enforced muds are one of the hardest muds to establish from square one, as opposed to H&S converting to RP - like Arm). A couple short months later after the floppage (about a year after I started playing Arm), I was invited to become an Imm here.
And that's my story.
Ash
Achaea > Lusternia > Armageddon. (don't ask how)
SDF mud -> The turning point -> Armageddon
I found SDF by using a linux shell on a remote site to do a website, I was fiddling around and typed "games" in which I saw MUD - Multi User Dungeon
So I checked it out.. it was hack and slash, I then migrated to the turning point, not remembering how.. From there, it shut down and a friend I played with on there sent me here and I've been here every since.
Hello, I've been playing for a few months, but I'm a first-time poster :) Anyway...
Medievia :oops: -> Materia Magica -> Imperian -> Armageddon
The things that attracted me to Armageddon were the lack of "donation items" that were in all three of the other games I played, the whole RPI thing, and permadeath :twisted:.
Did some freeform roleplaying when I was 10. Well in love with Baldur's Gate II at twelve. Did a whole lot of RP chatting (ten minutes+ between replies, more like a forum really) that's when I first experiences the thrill of how random player interaction can create fantastic intrigues by mistake. Tried Achaea for a couple of hours, couldn't stand the grind and unrealistic skill system. Since my sister is hogging most of the bandwidth recently my über fps and rts skills declined to nothing as I couldn't play properly I searched on wikipedia for a gritty and semi-realistic MUD and arm caught my eye. After a few hours of breathtaking action and an unfair and dark death in the rinth I was hooked.
L.O.R.D., Achaea, Accursed Lands, CRACKAGEDDON CRACKAGEDDON CRACKAGEDDON.
Quote from: "rufus"L.O.R.D., Achaea, Accursed Lands, CRACKAGEDDON CRACKAGEDDON CRACKAGEDDON.
Rufus, how's Accursed Lands? I heard its incredible as well. How many players does it have at peak hours?
Lusternia for like, ever, then became an Imm there shortly after I began to play Armageddon about 2 months ago, definately glad I came around here, though Lusty was fun for the niche it filled.
harshlands -> here
Right here, baby.
This should be interesting.
Tempered Steel :arrow: Rafermand :arrow: The Fifth Element :arrow: The Afterlife :arrow: Realms of Discordia :arrow: Armageddon :arrow: Brief lull in which I played none :arrow: Realms of Discordia [Chaos Ascending] :arrow: Armageddon :arrow: nursing school :arrow: Armageddon
I immed on...hmm...three of those muds.
Sojourn/Toril/Basternae/Duris -> Armageddon.
I've logged into countless others for anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks. GodWars (or something like that) I found interesting for a short while. Basically, though, I started off mudding at Sojourn, but was disappointed at the lack of roleplay. I stumbled across Armageddon one day in my search for something better, and in a frightening lack of inhibition for me, I dove right into writing and submitting an application. Five days later, or so, I was hooked on Old Tuluk alone. Took another couple of characters before I had one that visited 'nak. ;-)
While I've been an inconstant player, given my hectic personal life, I've played some character or other for as long as I could at least once a year for the last 10 years. My playing Armageddon has been interspersed with occassional fits of playing Duris, which I'll have to credit as the best HnS/PK MUD I've played, or whichever incarnation was substituting for it. Armageddon still wins my vote for the overall best MUD I've played in terms of theme, playability, player loyalty and enthusiasm, etc.