I've noticed a lot of newbies over the past few weeks which brought up my topic:
What -did- make you join?
For me it was my brother, he started playing and I decided I should too; it's sad though, he quit a few weeks after he started :(
I came here after pretty much seeking refuge from my first RP MUD...
It was a nice place, but most of the people were horrible. Long, sad story.
Anyway, I was told about this place by a friend. I also brought a couple of friends of mine, but one left and the other's too busy to play for now.
I saw a link to Armageddon on a MMORPG's discussion board thread discussing what people do when the game is not online.
When I was oocly talking with someone in a mud I was playing the subject of perma death came up in an indirect way. It was a game where when you died you became a ghost and had to be ressurected....yea. She mentioned Armageddon and a few weeks later I checked it out. Now...that mud which I enjoyed, I no longer enjoy.
heheh, I remember....in the middle of a fight I was losing...if I wasnt almost dead I could just close the window....a few minutes later I would be logged out. *sigh* Arm is far better.
I had gone to one particular RPI mud, and read all the helpfiles. I found the tone of them was too cruel for me to enjoy it. I actually came to Armageddon because it was less harsh (on an OOC level).
I was playing my first mud, an LP "Realms" and saw Armageddon mentioned on ISCA.
I logged in and never looked back.
I do miss getting drunk to heal, though. ;-)
DarkSun...Dune...cool RP. A friend told me this...he also told me that you had to apply for a character...and the way he put it made it sound like I'd be waiting forever and I was like, 'Fuck that!' We were both playing another mud together and he was also playing this one...well, that one basically was going to do a pwipe, but they hadn't decided when and let it drag on. I didn't feel like playing any longer if I knew my character was just going to get deleted, so I gave Arm a shot. Since then, on a side note, they finally did do the pwipe and put in a bunch of code changes and apparently it's cooler now...but Arm is still cooler than them, so I didn't go back.
I was inbetween games and had tried Arm before but could never get into it. I decided on a whim to try it again since I love Darksun and Dune so much, started an enjoyable character and got sucked in. As with any RP mud, always takes an interesting character and some PC interaction to really get into the game, at least for me.
For me I was playing over in Harshlands till someone told me to come over here. I have never really tried hack and slash they are dull to me. So when I came here I fell in love. The RP, is awsome and the selling point is the user friendliness. Even though when I first started I was scared and lost I was never alone. Always someone out there to help.
Summary: I came here because someone told me too because I was waiting for my char to be accepted.... I never did go back to the other.
Well, I had been playing MMORPGs at that point, and got interested in roleplaying. I went through a few roleplaying clans in UO (Hey, it's better than nothing) before I saw a link to Arm on a Slashdot comment.
I spent probably over a month reading the GDB and the docs until mustering the courage to apply.
When I first got connected to the internet, I could only afford a free connection. In Ottawa, where I live, one of the universities supplies access. Good old Freenet. It was back in the text-only realm, so with my monochrome monitor (I'm not old, just poor) I connected and could get to 3 MUDs. Armageddon, Blue Facial and Moosehead SLED. A friend of mine played Moosehead (MHS) so that's where I went. Didn't know any better then, and the hack'n'slash was fun enough for me. Being the ADD kid I was (am) I would jump from mud to mud, but I couldn't even get connected to Armageddon for a loooong time.. I kept getting this, "You must first create a character" message. With no explanation of how.
Finally one day it worked. But it was back before karma and I tried to make a mantis that was a short fat bald man. When the character was rejected I figured it was too much trouble because I couldn't even get into the game to read the helpfiles! I was young and it seemed too daunting to bother fighting with Freenet to find the web page, using my XT2 and monochrome monitor. 1200bps connection speed didn't help either.
Can't remember if it was 2000 or 2001 when I found Armageddon again. Karma was in effect. Knew how to describe a human, so I made one, and I was hooked. I also think I died within 24 hours of having been approved. Maybe the same day.
mmm...Armageddon.
Gorobei is my roommate.
Quote from: "Marauder Moe"I saw a link to Armageddon on a MMORPG's discussion board thread discussing what people do when the game is not online.
Which one? I pimp Armageddon on a -lot- of MMORPG/RPG boards when I can.
It was Asheron's Call
Quote from: "Marauder Moe"It was Asheron's Call
Twas not I.
I was search of a really good RP MUD. I tried a few MUSHes, but I couldn't really get into them. I was in love with this game even before I applied for a my frist character. Perma-death, intensive mandatory RP..I mean who wouldn't be. Unfortunately, the harshness of the world scared me off for a while. But I returned after being put down by all those RP wanna-be MUDs out there. Man, I wish I could play more...
I was forced to play by a fellow player of another MUD. I wasn't giving no choice. If I didn't do it I would have been hunted down and killed.
So you can blame them.
Creeper
I had been playing another supposedly RPI mud for about 3 years. A friend of mine from there, with whom I had been RP'ing for most of that time, left about a year ago. For three months I kept getting ICQ messages about how wonderful Arm was. Finally, during a time when I needed a small break from the other mud, I came and checked out Arm.
I came. I saw. I stayed.
I never returned to the other place.
I was just a powerplayer in a few MUDs. But the bad thing is that I'm also a programmer. One day I thought I could let the computer do the fighting stuff. Another day I made a little addition, to hunt. And the next day I was drinking my tea watching the screen yelling "Yea level! ......... Yea level!".. Kinda boring eh?
Then searched in the Mud Connector. I became interested in. Wrote a description for a metalsmith dwarf (the only disapproved char :) ).. Then spent one whole day to read all the helpfiles and stuff.
And I'm still inviting friends to Arm, to find enough resource to kill when I play the assassin :) .
Quote from: "Kankman"A friend of mine played Moosehead (MHS) so that's where I went.
Good ole Moosehead Sled. I also started there, thanks to freenet. I had to try Armageddon a couple of times before getting into it. With an interim Hack'n'Slash/RP-encouraged mud called DSL.
I made the mistake of reading over Drunken Salarr's shoulder as he played...Then he started explaining things to me...he finally got me to try my own character. That one didn't last too long, but I was hooked anyway...then came my second (and still favorite) character. I just did a write-up on her!
I played and was instantly addicted...And it sucks that I don't always have the time to play now... :cry:
All my friends were really into Artic, though they did hack and slash. Since I always loved Darksun, I started looking around for a mud that did that. I found armaggeddon while searching through the Zmud listing. Tried a few characters out, stopped playing muds of any type for a few years, but every time I get the mudding urge, I find myself back here.
there is just something wrong with killing people in the street for a chicken. in a place where law is supposed to be brutal.. (Shrug)
Sp I quit H&S for like three years and got bored and remembered arm, came here, didn't play for a month, Then I was hooked after that second hour, when I was tortured and beat up by a templar in prison :)
My babysitter. 8 years ago. And he still plays.
My brother, and the shitty state of UO.
Quote from: "Impska"
Good ole Moosehead Sled. I also started there, thanks to freenet. I had to try Armageddon a couple of times before getting into it. With an interim Hack'n'Slash/RP-encouraged mud called DSL.
Yeah DSL was actually started by an immortal from Moosehead, around the same time Redemption was as well.. DSL is the perfect example of "roleplay encouraged". The immortals thought they were cool and elite because there was roleplay on their mud, with their public channels and levels and experience points and remorts.. fucking stupid RP-encouraged hack'n'slashers. That is not roleplaying!
EDITED TO ADD:
gossip Hey, anyone level 13-17 want to group?
Been exploring for some time looking for a realistic envionment. Heh I was on a pay-for
RP mud. Nice people.. roleplay enforced, they were really into it, but come on, kill a rabbit
and 10 coins drop out, what is that? The NPC's were always in the same place. They
could always be killed the same way. The only adventuring was solving the "quests" aka
"guess the keyword". I ran across Armageddon a number of times and passed. I always
played magic users, arm looked, well, harsh, but the more I ran across it the more interesting
it sounded. Sad thing is I liked the people at that other mud now I can't see myself going
back. I also liked having a life, now I just play arm, dream arm dreams. Gads.
Quote from: "sarahjc"I was 24 when I started. My boyfriend turned me on to Arm and I have been plagued by its addictive quality for one year now.
One night at home 11pm..
S- What are you doing?
J- I'll come to bed in a minute...
S- I can't sleep with all that typing. You do this almost
every night, its late..
J- Hold on, I can't quit right now..
S- Why?
J- I'm being tracked by a scrab and I have to find the city...
S-Are you playing Dungeons and Dragons?
J- No!
S-You nerd..
J- Look, I have to concentrate, I'll come to bed in a minute..(10 minutes later, with a sigh.) Finally.. Thank god!
S-What happened?
J- I made it back...
S-What's a Scrab?..
One year later 12:30am.. In game Just before Dawn..
S-Alright, I'll go and fill up our water skins while you get our Kanks. Meet me at the gates..
J- Right, sounds good.
S-(Think) I think we could take on a Raptor today, the skins go for a good price, maybe I can get the skull out of one....
Arm is the only Mud/text base game I have ever played. So two years now, and still addicted.
I was playing a MUD based on Dragonlance for awhile (Arctic, was that the MUD your friends were on Grog? If so, who were they? Clanned?). It went down for awhile in 94, so I started looking for other DnD themed MUDs..forgotten realms (tried Sojourn for awhile, disliked it), Dark Sun, etc.
And Dark Sun led me to Arm, as it is basically the only Dark Sun based MUD out there.
Never MUDded or MUSHed or MOOed before. No text-based gaming at all. Wasn't even looking, to be honest. Probably would have scoffed at the idea.
It all started out with a friendly catch-up e-mail to a very dear friend I hadn't heard from in too many years. "Take a look at it some time," she said.
It all seemed so harmless at the time.
Seeker
(I guess I just took a wrong turn... and then kept going)
I don't remember how I found arm. I was in college...which is hazy...still.
I had played a bunch of muds...liked em,
I remember trying a MUSH, not knowing much about RP and it going something like:
Other player: Okay, I threw a knife at you.
Me: Um, no you didn't.
Other player: Dude, I threw a knife at you.
Me: Right, right....okay the knife hit me in the arm. I'm bleeding.
Other player: No, no. We have to wait for an Imm so we know if it hit you.
Me: umm, this blows.
And thinking how cool it would be if someone coded the mush imms or killed all the players on the muds that wouldn't stay in char.
I think then I stayed up really late and eventually found arm.
My brother.
Back in Highschool I was in an AP Computer Science class that we regularly called AP Unreal Tournament as well as other things.
Drunken Salarr and Cappadocias one day were trying to figure out how to get around the firewall to connect to Arm. I asked about it, and my interest was peaked.
Unfortunatly back then I was stuck with an AOL account and the game wasn't excepting anyone with AOL or free accounts. So a few months pass, I graduate highschool and move.
One of the first few days of my summer break I notice the policy about AOL accounts has changed and I immediatly apply for a character. Been hooked ever since.
Viva La Programa
I had heard about muds, so tried them out myself, this was like... 1993. Not -really- my thing. Few years later a friend of mine discovered RPI muds, and got me into Mirtos and Aldara, very briefly. I had heard about armag, but never bothered to try it. Around.. uh, '95, '96 I made a couple armag chars which sucked and failed, and slowly over time made a few more and more... and have been playing off and on since.
-Der Comrade
I've been an extreme on-again-off-again Arm player for something like 5 years now, but I'll never forget how I got clued in, and then sucked in.
I was playing on a World of Darkness MUSH at the time and one of the other vampire guys, the one who typed badly and whom most people avoided because of his MUD-like emotes, started telling me about this game he played on and how, one day, he roleplayed selling a rock to a half-giant PC and that the rock wasn't even an actual object. It was just a virtual rock.
That was intriguing enough to make me check out the website. I'd always had a thing for the Dark Sun campaign setting, so that was all it took. I think I created a character, got approved, and got killed by a gortok 15 minutes later. My second character didn't last a whole lot longer. In fact, it took me about 15 characters (spread out over two accounts because I was embarassed about the rate I was killing my people off) before I had someone live longer than a week.
I wander off when things in Arm slow down and some new shiny graphical game out there pulls my lemming-like attention away, but I keep coming back like Halley's Comet. It might take a while to orbit, but sooner or later I show up again. Today, in fact, is the day I've decided to start playing again. Whee.
Well, I was playing an h&s mud a little bit...was at a friends apartment and he was playing Arm...sat and watched him interact with a certain immense, ebon-skinned fellow and was severely impressed.
Made a couple of chars before real life dragged me away until about a year and a half ago...never forgot the fun I had playing a bit back then and was so happy to see Arm still around, been back since.
My story is somewhat similar to Sarahjc, I started dating this guy and he started telling me about this game he plays. I'd never even heard of such a thing before, but the more he talked about it, the more interested I became. After we'd moved in together I made him teach me how to play, and I've been addicted ever since. That was last July sometime. :)
-Irulan
Hmm.. alright.. well. I'm still relatively new to muds and all. Started on a mush. And discovered I liked rp A WHOLE LOT! But.. I couldn't stand that the skills were interdepentant on other characters and I would spend most of my time waiting for someone to appear to get a lesson to even beable to practice my skill or whatever. The no.. you didn't cut my neck.. you cut my knee!I could go on and on about it.. but.. I won't :D
That led me to a mud that pretended to rp. I played that for a year until all the OOC bs and unessessary crap that went on IC drove me off (this was a pay to play) So.. I was.. mudless... :cry:
I found my way to Topmudsites.. don't remember how.. and tried Achaea first.. after three months had enough.. then started a hack and slash Arrdwulf (sp?) Just about a month on that.. I still go back when I don't want to think and just wanna kill.. its good for that..
Tried a couple more muds from that site.. heh.. actually tried all of 'em.. I'd been avoiding Arm for the longest.. I didn't like the name.. sounded all.. MANLY! And mean like.. but then.. I'd gone through all the rest and I figured.. what the hell!
So I started reading the site and starting falling in love.. Ooooooo REAL RP!!! With Skills that are realistically gotten! And no numbers and stuff! Ooooooh.. I could just pass out from joy. I must have stayed up until my application was approved. I kept checking my mail.. hehehe.. can ya tell I was excited? Well.. first character died within an hour.. or actually.. since all you guys keep talking about a mantis head.. I realize she wasn't dead at all.. but just passed out.. so when I logged out she must have died I guess.. learning experience.. well.. here I am! And I'm here to stay! Yay! :lol: :D :twisted:
Creeper pretty much sums it up exactly for me. :shock:
Quote from: "creeper386"I was forced to play by a fellow player of another MUD. I wasn't giving no choice. If I didn't do it I would have been hunted down and killed.
So you can blame them.
Creeper
I could smell the perma-death and was drawn to the cries of tourtured souls.
I heard about ArmageddonMud from Bimble Freefoot, if any of you know/remember him. He's a rarely seen, man-eating cow who occasionally posts here. :twisted:
I played H&K muds 'cause when I wanna kill someone, virtually speaking, I don't want to fuck around with whether there's a staffer on the mush or moo and have it up to the possibility of that person's whim (and who they know and like) as to who kills/maims whom.
I became very tired of the people who wouldn't play a character. I figure...what's the point in playing a game system based (however loosely) on AD&D rule sets if you're not gonna play a role.
On one PK mud, Apocalypse III (no relation to the belated hack of Arm), I would coach people in the effort to increase roleplay. Those who opposed me violently, met with the wrath of a rather powerful sorcerer. Made alot of enemies in the player base, but also alot of friends. When the overlord decided to do away with playerkilling because she felt it was getting out of hand, I quit mudding except for 'SillyMud' (because...well, it's silly!)
That's when Bimble (was an imm on Apocalypse III) mentioned this cool new mud that was alot like AD&D's Darksun in genre and was permadeath pkill. So, I decided to look into it.
Even though I was a clueless twink for a while, I was hooked almost immediately. That was.....mmmn. Damn, I'm old! 11...12 years ago?!
:shock:
That is funny Naatok, cause I distinctly remember you telling me that you started to play because you heard they had spankings here.
I was probably drunk at the time so.. :twisted:
James did it he hooked me . Dam him .no! Must MUD and find chicken bones help take down his boss.And drive a grey kank around armed with chicken bones cutting yards. And SALVE yes james i said it SALVE it's good to have SALVE
Quote from: "Seeker"Wasn't even looking, to be honest.
You just won the irony prize of the day! :P
Congrats! :D
Many many years ago in a galaxy far far away called perilouse realms,(which is still running by the way) a H&S mud that I had gone to because I was bored with epic mud, I'm playing my level 140/120 mage warrior when somebody gossiped about a darksun RP mud that had just opened to public, unlimited pk.
I was like, darksun, unlimited pk and rp...gotta check it out. So, I went, made a half-giant stone cleric. He was validated in under 48 hours I might add, entered the game sat down at the fountain in tuluk, started practicing spells and reading docs. To tell you the truth, it was the spell system at the time that kept me playing, later it was the RP that brought me back time after time.
I got fed up with the mud I used to play and quit, subsequently going in search of another mud which fit my criteria... rp-enforced was a must, and I wanted a comparable playerbase to where I'd been. I'm not too keen on the idea of "levels" and "xp" in a roleplaying game, so I was looking into muds that were skill based instead of level based. One of the people from my old mud mentioned that several players had, over the years, migrated from where I had been playing over to Armageddon. I figured I'd give it a shot... I've been here ever since.
A somewhat typical story:
I played Dragonrealms for 7 years before getting fed up finally in a huge storm of anger and hatred. Then, after cooling off for a few weeks playing Counter-strike, I went back to topmudsites (this time withOUT voting for Dragonrealms) and looked down for something.
Tried achea, realized how lame it was really quickly. At least Dragonrealms was RP-kind-of-encouraged.
So i decided I needed to find an RP required mud that had perma-death (i came up with the idea of permadeath and how great it would be for a MUD independently in my late days of DR), armageddon was the highest on the list with both, so I tried it out. Made some poor ranger named Rueschen who had a great fantastic background and ideas for the future but got eaten rather quickly by a tembo. D:
After that, I was like, "Well, that's exactly what I want in a MUD, but I'm so sick of muds, fuggit."
After about a year of owning bitches in Counter-strike, I felt the old pull for some RPing, and since I didn't have time to get into a play, I dug up Armageddon again.
I don't expect to leave for awhile, this time. I even have my next character completely fleshed out, and my current char is stable and moving forward in life.
:mrgreen:
My husband, then my friend, bugged me for months to try this roleplaying mud called Armageddon. We played a Star Wars based mud (he played, I idled and got plevelled) at the time and I finally got sick of him pestering me and made a guard for his asshole merchant. Then the fucker stopped playing. To this day he's constantly asking me what I'm laughing about or what my character is up to and I'm the one telling him he should play.
I just realized I'd never responded to this thread.
I was also a DragonRealms player for several years. I would get bored, take some time off, and come back because there was nothing else to do.
Then DragonRealms came up with a spin-off game called DragonRealms: The Fallen. The basic idea was that unlike in the regular version of DR, there were no rules, no boundaries, nothing to keep you from PKing or swearing or "scripting" (botting) your character to uberness. Most of the roughest players were going there, people who had been locked out of the Disney-fied version of the game. People were planning to form gangs for mutual protection. When you came upon someone in game you would never know if they might decide to kill you, or even if they had a bunch of friends in hiding, waiting to ambush you. The idea seemed like a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I wanted that edge.
Of course, the reality was nothing like I had envisioned. The "freedom" of The Fallen ended up just being a void of 1337-speak, in which no one ever actually played, because they were just botting their characters all the time.
Then DragonRealms decided to get listed on TMS. I voted a few times, checked out the forums, decide to see what else was out there. Arm was intimidating at first: permadeath, apping, harshness at every turn. But it was also intriguing.
I stepped onto Zalanthas and never looked back.
I'd been mudhopping for a few years, and I settled on this one mud, EV?, for awhile. I forget its full name, it's been a long while. And after about a month or two, I started to complain over gossip about the lack of consistent RP and random PKs, and a player told me about this RPi mud. I remember asking what "i" stood for, and he said, 'Intensive'.
He both scared and intrigued me so much that I went to the website, read the docs for about a week before nervously making a character. I expected those mean templars or nobles to kill me with a flick of a finger. About two days later, I was approved. This was about three or four years ago.
Yeah, if this rings a bell with anyone, PM me. I'm curious on who it was, I never figured that out. :twisted:
-Ashyom
Quote from: "X-D"Many many years ago in a galaxy far far away called perilouse realms,(which is still running by the way) a H&S mud that I had gone to because I was bored with epic mud, I'm playing my level 140/120 mage warrior when somebody gossiped about a darksun RP mud that had just opened to public, unlimited pk.
I was like, darksun, unlimited pk and rp...gotta check it out. So, I went, made a half-giant stone cleric. He was validated in under 48 hours I might add, entered the game sat down at the fountain in tuluk, started practicing spells and reading docs. To tell you the truth, it was the spell system at the time that kept me playing, later it was the RP that brought me back time after time.
Holy shit, you came from PR also? That's awesome. I was coding there when I heard about Arm and decided to check it out. I'm interested to find out who you were on PR.
I was playing Darkemud at the time, and one of the Imms was talking about some mud which he thought was really cool because he was stuck somewhere in Allanak, drunk, penniless and starving with no idea where to find water or food. For some reason I thought that sounded cool and I decided to check Arm out. That was like 8 years ago, my first character was a half giant ranger. I only played him for maybe a month tops and then I didn't play muds at all until my reg date on the GDB here. Anyone else here from Darkemud? :P
I played on a hack and slash mud (Darkemud) for a few years, and IMMed on another hack and slash mud (Daybreak Ridge) for a few years before I got totally burnt out on mudding.
Then spawnloser started playing Armageddon, and that got me interested in mudding again, because I saw how much roleplay is involved.
I played a graphical game called underlight, which claims to be rp immersive. I wanted more immersive. I also wanted to be able to have a greater affect on the game world and to be more effected by it. I found Mudconnector and looked for a post-apocalyptic mud (visions of a boy and his dog) and ended up here.
Quote from: "Barzalene"I played a graphical game called underlight, which claims to be rp immersive.
I played Underlight, too. Who were you, in the dream? :P
Annabel
I found it while typing in random addresses in the address bar.
Luckily I had started MUDing a couple months before with some mostly-stock CircleMUDs, and didn't just dismiss Arm on the spot.
How badly Achaea sucked.
Sanvean made me join.
She had a gun...
Quote from: "Anonymous"Sanvean made me join.
She had a gun...
She must trust you alot...I mean, I would only do the gun thing if I trusted that they would actually play it right.
Or it could be that you're a psycopath that would fit into the assassinry guild just fine, who knows if she trusts you....
Quote from: "Barzalene"Annabel
Never heard of you. I went by Callisto.
Were you around for the "feathered football" theft? That was hilarious.
I started playing muds because of the book "Playing MUDs on the Internet" by Rawn Shah and Jim Romine. It has some great stories about muds and explains how to play them but is more focused on Hack and Slash than RP. Still, it got me started playing MUDs and in particular this one.
Bushranger
My friend started playing, me and him have played a few tabletop RPGs together and said it would help ease the urge to RP inbetween campaigns. 10 minutes, I was hooked. That was 2 years ago.
I was looking through mpogd for something to do a few years back when I first found Materia Magika or something like that. It was alot of fun, but it became boring after a while and I started going through a few muds at topmudsites. Came to Armageddon after Dartmud and a few Tolkien based muds and have decided to stay.
I really like the perma-death and skills set up of Armageddon. It's nice that the mud is level-less and limits your skills to your guild without making it feel like your limited skills are stopping you from doing what you want to do. The low amount of magick also drew me here, since I had gotten really tired of people hurling fireballs and thunderbolts and what not. This could go on on so instead of doing it here, I'm going to go post a review.
I came through Ottawa's Freenet.
A friend of mine showed me it while I was in his basement. Made a character, attacked a mob in Allanak, was killed by soldiers - respawned only to be attacked and killed again when I tried to do a corpse retrieval...
Next character was some magic class - I believe a whiran. I played for a little bit and basically left to play Blue Facial.
Eventually I came back and started up an asssassin in Tuluk. Ended up having a lot of fun and even stuck with it when the skill percentages were removed. ;)
Since then I've played on and off.
*bumping up a seven month old topic for my single post*
I used to DM for Darksun campaigns when I was younger (12-15yr old,
I'm 24 now) and I started mudding on Carrionfields some PK RP (kinda)
mud. Maybe a couple years after I started playing that (16 yrs old maybe)
I ended up doing a search for dark sun and mud and whammo, got
Armageddon.
So I give it a try, immediately make a sorcerer (no karma then) and die
when I try gathering just outside the gates. I was twinky to no end. I
remember making a water elementalist and spamming cast [spell name]
repeatedly without ever making it go through, thinking that it may up the
spell %/level. No avail, and an immortal scratched his chin.
So anyways, every two or so years I'd come back to the mud and make
a character or four that each dies in the same day I make it. Finally,
maybe two years ago I make a human, rp cutting up a corpse and get
d-elf karma, then make a d-elf and play a few gith cause they were open
then and got hooked a bit, but was still sorta twinky in a "I don't emote I
spam hunt to skill raise and my desert elves are humans that can run
far" kinda way. Chars all died and I got busy with rl stuff again.
Anyways, thats then, and come July of last year '04 I say what the hell,
and made a character, and wow, I did alright with that character and I
could safely say I'm no longer noobie anymore, not by far. He died and
I've had other characters since and I'm re-hooked.
My story,
Ktavialt
I started mudding when I was 13, on a place called Alexmud.
I moved to one called Ravenmud, due to a single death message, "Your slash removes the head from a filthy cat, which rolls away with a look of horror on it's face."
Played that one for awhile, while also playing two other muds, "Realms of Illusion" and "Black Aria". Got the highest level possible on the side muds, had three high level characters on raven mud, and just abruptly got incredibly bored of hack'n slash.
I searched for muds on the mud connector, luckily Armageddon starts with an A, and I found it. Applied for a character, got rejected, and said fuck it. Later in the year 199...8? I think? I got bored of H&S again, and reapplied. Received my character. Attacked the first npc I saw, which was an unarmed slave, got thrown in jail, and met a templar. He could tell I was a newbie, had pity, and released me, when I promptly left the gates and died to a scrab.
I can't play anywhere else anymore. I laugh in the face of other 'RPi' muds.
I found it off the top mud site place after getting irritated over the game I'd been playing. It was a general sort of hack and slash sort, with quests you could do 50 times, levels, etc etc. And it was free for a month, then after that it started reminding you that you should make a 50 dollar donation. Then, if you wanted perks, like sleeping to heal faster, etc etc, you had to pay more. It was somewhat decent when I started, but the longer it went, the doofier it got. The final straw was a big 'plague' that swept the realm... Where everyone started farting and got dibilitating abdominal cramps. :roll: :roll: :roll:
So I took a peek at some of the other games offered, starting at the top of the TMS list and reading about them, trying some of them, and found Armageddon. My first char died within a RL week, and I was hooked. Now the only time I try one of the other games, is for amusement properties, make a char and run around fishing and catching butterflies for some mind-numbing. Sort of like playing 20 games of computer solitaire, not a whole lot of thought required. :wink:
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Hahah. I hate colors now.
I certainly don't miss the color. Especially when with the previously stated game, there was a spam message in neon colors about every 15-30 minutes that reminds you to go vote on TMS.
I got bored of Achaea within the month and searched TMS, and got interested in the permadeath aspect. I always thought reincarnation was..well stupid.
Quote from: "CRW"How badly Achaea sucked.
Worth repeating.
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Quote from: "CRW"How badly Achaea sucked.
Worth repeating.
Again. I really don't get how they manage SO many votes. Seriously. I can't imagine that many people wanting to play it.
I can't imagine that many people wanting to watch RAW wrestling every week. :P People have different tastes.
Angela Christine
Two reasons:
i) A friend called Cenghiz "The pale, gay-looking man" told me about ARM.
and
ii) the jet-skinned templar called Shome.
I'm not to much of a noobie but the reason I joined was Jhunter introduced me to it and the first time I died I was like wow this game is really hard -I'm hooked-.
Quote from: "Larrath"I came here after pretty much seeking refuge from my first RP MUD...
It was a nice place, but most of the people were horrible. Long, sad story.
Anyway, I was told about this place by a friend. I also brought a couple of friends of mine, but one left and the other's too busy to play for now.
Same thing. Dark and Shattered Lands is dismal.
I had developed a taste for Mud-ing and good roleplay on another text game. This game eventually was absorbed by a larger company and made pay-to-play. I, being a cheap bastard, bid farewell to the noble people and environs of that world, and struck out to find a new land to call home.
I drifted around, mucking about on different games. Invariably, I would become disappointed with the generally H&S nature of most of these places. Even in ones that had some roleplay, the world was still static and unchanging. The emptiness of my endeavors began to wear on me.
Eventually, I washed up here. Although this world at first appeared harsh and severely unwelcoming, I gave it a shot. What did I have to lose? The roleplay satisfied my desires, perhaps even exceeded them, as I was not used to such a high-roleplay environment, for I had grown lax.
I joined the ranks of Armageddon, and got used to roleplaying again, like getting used to a hot-tub. The flexible nature of the world (it feels like, if I play my cards right, I might actually be able to influence things) and the powerful and diverse skills and roleplay tools at my disposal (even today I have not mastered the use of the emoting system) endeared me to this place.
Sadly, though, I now find myself behind a firewall. Cut off! Oh, the pangs of withdrawal.
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Sadly, though, I now find myself behind a firewall. Cut off! Oh, the pangs of withdrawal.
There are some legitimate ways to work with a firewall. No guarantees although, as some are way too tight. Since this seems to be a persistent issue for some I am thinking about creating a checklist for those folks. You are free to PM me if have any questions. Could always use another victim.
A friend of a friend who liked to embellish stories. Turns out he wasn't embellishing..
Props to Armaddict
I join because I was introduced it by my lecturer during the summer holiday. :D
Went on holiday with no pc, so took a stack of old PC Powerplay mags instead. read MUD article. Back home to MudConnector. Read Top 10, saw "the desert" Here I am :shock:
It's all Praetorian's fault. I blame him.
I was playing a fairly decent RP MUD. And then things went down hill. The staff started becoming extremely possesive. Not letting players play their characters. In general being rude OOC and such. And then the game got further changed since one of the head staff's children started playing and she didn't want them to see anything bad.
Now, from what I see although the code is some of the best I've seen in a MUD, the RP has degraded to sitting around a square chatting, and it's mostly a huge EQ grab fest.
Anyways, someone I played with there, came here, and suggested it.
So, if anyone would like to know who to blame, hunt down Corrine. At least I think it was her. Yeah. Think so.
Creeper
she's the one that started the odd urges thread! easily the funniest thread on the forum.
I had my girlfriend playing for awhile. Then we broke up. Now she's perma-mad at me, so I doubt she'll be back. :\
Gonna try to get the new girlfriend into it. :twisted:
It's all my friend's fault! He made me do it! :shock:
It really should just be called "Crackageddon." Shit's addictive.
friend got me into the game around 2001-2002 time period..... now i dont play at all but ya it was so fun me and my 2 budies running around in the rith with the gangs awsome time before tuluk came back
A man polishing a steel cow. Thats all I'm going to say about it.
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Finally one day it worked. But it was back before karma and I tried to make a mantis that was a short fat bald man.
Bwahahaha. That would've been the best character ever, you know.
the geeks at my school introduced me to armageddon. i realized i was playing with geeks with greasy hair so i stopped playing.
Quotethe geeks at my school introduced me to armageddon. i realized i was playing with geeks with greasy hair so i stopped playing.
Yeah, people like you are generally better off sitting on your thumb anyway.
I was playing a hack&slash MUD called Greystone since '98. And one day a friend called Cenghiz "The pale, gay-looking man" told me about ARM after he told Gaare about it. At first, I really hated, because it was a pain in the ass to create a char and see it died permanently at his first attempt to kill a scrab.. Now, ARM is where my heart beats ;)
Nyeh, way back when, i heard a few of my friends talking about it. And i had previously played some lame ass Hack and Slash attempt at an RP mud that eventually just gave up RP, called Redemption. I gave that hell up, and have been living happily at Armageddon.org for a few years now.
Cenghiz has all the blame for dragging all of us Turks to Arm and making us nest here.
Yeah, I always seemed to notice an awful lot of you. :)
Turkey was amazing, though--wound up getting to go to Istanbul and Bodrum for a few weeks last summer. I am seriously missing the Efes Pilsen and Adana kebap, not to mention the many great people I met there.
Quote from: "fearwig"Yeah, I always seemed to notice an awful lot of you. :)
Turkey was amazing, though--wound up getting to go to Istanbul and Bodrum for a few weeks last summer. I am seriously missing the Efes Pilsen and Adana kebap, not to mention the many great people I met there.
Don't forget "rakı" my friend, :wink:
Thanks by the way.
Oh yeah, the raki was good. Knocks you on your ass, though. :)
My hubby 'made' me play, last Summer when I was not working. Now, I am the monster from Hell that he created. Mwahaha! :twisted:
Quote from: "fearwig"Quote from: "Larrath"I came here after pretty much seeking refuge from my first RP MUD...
It was a nice place, but most of the people were horrible. Long, sad story.
Anyway, I was told about this place by a friend. I also brought a couple of friends of mine, but one left and the other's too busy to play for now.
Same thing. Dark and Shattered Lands is dismal.
I played DSL too.. I started mudding when I was 11, I was really into a tabletop miniature game called Warhammer 40k back then, and I clicked a link to a picture of what I thought would be a miniature, but it instead was a link to a clanpage of Ancient Anguish, a pretty big H&S. I got hooked into that, but by and by I find Dark and Shattered Lands, and learn the rudiments of rp there. Then I see Armageddon on Top Mud Sites, and I got addicted. Now I mostly futilely try to improve the RP of DSL through example on the sat. downtime, but Arm sucked me in.
A Boy and His Dog.
Really great little cult film. Came before Mad Max and Tank Girl. Go find it, rent it, buy it, watch it.
Tried Arm because it was listed as post-apocalyptic on TMC.
Nidhogg has good taste.... (watch the movie and you'll get the joke, people!)
I played on an "RP-encouraged" Wheel of Time MUD for about 5 years. It was reasonably fun, but had huge problems with "well, my character should be able to do X, and you can't do that because if my character could do X I'd already have avoided it..." kind of arguments. Staff members actually quit (or were fired) over arguments like those, and you can guess the kind of playing environment it created. PK was a huge problem, because while the code supported it, without permadeath or looting it didn't MEAN anything and just led to more and more people bitching (You can't do that! I was in my room with my 20000 NPC guards! No, they weren't coded but I should have them! I even emoted them just before you got there!) Eventually, the people running it got tired of doing so, and it closed.
When it closed, I went looking for a MUD where I could get the solid RP hook that I had come to like, but without all the OOC bitching about "well, I should be able to do X but the code doesn't support it." The Mud Connector led eventually me to Armageddon. My first character took 4 hours to create, and died forever in only 3. My next lived for more than 75 days of playtime. set Addiction = "yes". :wink:
I'm another Dark and Shattered Lands refugee.
Well, I still play there occassionaly. Because I'm important there and my chracter's a little bitch on arm. But I'm constantly impressed by the way Arm does everything[/b] better.
I started MUDing when my friend found a crappy MUD under the disguise of RPing called Threshold. (It's up there on the top 10 usually) Got addicted to that. THEN he started going on and on and on and on about this MUD called Armageddon. Sounds like absolute crap, what with perma-death and a post-apocalypse that didn't have metal and the remains of society. WHAT THE HELL!?!?
He tied me down and made me make a character one night. Played it for about 10 minutes, desided I didn't like it, and went link-dead in the tavern in Red Storm. Three months later I decided to give it another try. About 600 of my coins had been stolen by then, and a merchant took me, spotting that I was a newb. I belive I was hired to assassinate a templar with my very first character too! Of coarse it didn't work as I tried to kill everything ever spawned and ended up getting lost and dying in the Rinth somewhere. I was addicted.
The same friend that made me make a character now hates me for spending all my time on Armageddon. Ain't that a twist of fate? He hates teh Arm now. I think I'll have to kill him.... :twisted:
I was introduced to Armageddon by a friend of mine who had been playing since 95, we frequently played a tabletop called Dark Conspiracy and I was looking for a fix to get my dose of RP inbetween games and he refered me hear. I've been hooked since. Played around 3 years.
Well my first MUD was Dragon Realms and at that time when I was young I thought it was the best in the world, soon I didn't like the clear greed driven actions of simutronic's so I left. I tried other muds and being spoiled by the easy user friendly system I quit muds all togather.
I waits a few years tried muds again and found most rp to either be A.) Not there B.)To be ruled simply by sterotypical anime cliche cute little character who are by far the most annoying with their cute run on not funny jokes. ARGH!
I found Arm on topmudsites.
So far I've gone through two characters in 3 days both have been a blast to play. I really enjoy arm, aside the waiting period for new characters.
Sigh, I was pulled into Armageddon by Elvenchipmunk (no no, he wasn't the reason, dear god no, but he told me about it)
I came from Medievia about 4 or 5 months ago, a huge H&S MUD. I constantly told elvenchipmunk how Medievia had the gigantic average of people online at 500 or 600 people. It got really boring after a while. Kill this, kill that, get some phat lewt, level up, do quests... that sorta thing.
Finally, I decided to give Armageddon a try at my school. Made my first character, he got promptly killed by a bad player, who happened to be another friend, sitting right next to me...
Second character, sorta got bored of him and attacked a templar. Third character, went strong for about 4 and a half days, and with him, that's where I really got the hang of all the emoting and the world. I was just really enticed by the permadeath. If you're running from something vicious in Medievia, you could probably just whip out a handy teleport spell, or just run without a care, because in 5 minutes, you're back to life.
In Armageddon, however, if you're chased by something vicious, you had better run! The realism of the game was astounding to me. You hire someone to assassinate your enemy(or you do the deed yourself), you can be sure you ain't seeing them again, ever. Great thing, no global communications, only have two hands (unlike the H&S style four hands, light, wield, hold, shield/offhand weapon), people had personality. They weren't just your average experience-getter. There was actually law within the cities. In Medievia you could kill 10 guards and 50 commoner NPC's, and nobody gives a shit.
Arm's great! No levels, no experience-points, hardly any numbers, except when you're dealing with coins. The shops in Armageddon actually sell you things you would wanna use. You're not going zone-to-zone for phat EQ or anything like that. Just so realistic...
One thing I have to say to Elvenchipmunk: Damn you...! :P
I started playing Armageddon when I became too frustrated with Accursed Lands, a game I have played for several years. The OOC atmosphere was absolutely terrible--the creators have built a very thick wall between themselves and the players and there is cheating out the waa-zoo.
I thought, "So what if it's a diku.. I might as well try it."
And here I am. Lovely Armageddon! I love you!
Well... I got into it because of my boyfriend. He'd be playing Armageddon, I'd be watching movies... or something. Asked about it... and he started telling me all about it. Figured... "Okay, sounds neat, I'll go check it out and give it a whirl."
I'd never done anything like this before. Amazed my boyfriend and even myself that my first character lasted about ... well, a long time. I started at the end of July 2004, have been playing ever since. Took to the game really quick, and I love the roleplaying.
Currently juggling gaming here, and at Dreams and Awake.
Armageddon was mentioned on the Cantr II forums (a browser-based online game, text-only, about as RP intensive as Arm... I run the forums there.)
I decided to take a look.
I liked the sound of it.
I read most of the documentation.
I liked it more. I joined.
This is the first proper MUD I've ever played, too.
First MUD I've every played, i tend to stick to M*'s. ^_^ I found it from a beautifully written review, and I had to check it out. I've been enamoured ever since. :D
AOL - Dragon Realms.. AOL decided it would cost money, so I stopped MUDding..
Friend introduces me into SWMUD, so I play there a while.. its fun, but theres no Rp.. and you have to go get equipment every boot. Also, you respawn.. and once you memorize locations, you can be uber.
I bounce around for a while, playing on SWMUD, and even.. *shudder* an aber MUD called aberPhoenix. Eventually, quite randomly, I find Arm.. its cool, so I make a character.. die.. get bored and leave.
About three years after that, a friend and I are playing GWSE (a game where the IMM is an insane powerhungry freak, who randomly teleports in and kills people for fun.. even if the game itself is quite well made.) and we migrate over to Arm.. somehow. So, I was there.. played a bit, posted on the GDB, and pissed a lot of people off.. or, at least, some people off. I stop for a while, RL concerns taking over.. then start back, make a Human, have fun.. randomly get D-Elf karma.. now I have a D-Elf, and I'm having fun.
I made myself join.
Now I wish I could blame someone else.
I first started mudding in probably 1994, attracted by all the signs in the University computer labs that said, "No MUDs!". I landed at a place called Threshold, which was just starting out at that time. I played there for a good long time, building up one of the most powerful PCs on the mud, a catfolk thief by the name of Magnus. At first I was only attracted to the hack and slash elements of the game, but I eventually tired of that and got involved in roleplaying.
While there, I met a PC by the name of Jolanda. We struck up an OOC friendship as well, and she kept telling me that I needed to try out a mud called Armageddon, if I was really interested in roleplaying. I finally relented and submitted a PC. I wasn't able to really get into the game, though. It just was too different from the environment I was used to. Eventually I got really tired of Threshold and flitted around to various other muds, mainly Darkemud clones. Finally I found myself back on Armageddon, this time determined to give it an honest try. I did, and I was hooked.
I played for a while, no really influential or important PCs. My longest lived PC (around 2 RL years) was in a now-defunct iso-clan. I played a couple of other PCs after that before being asked to join staff (that was before the application process).
I staffed for a little over a year, before I took a new job that didn't really allow me the time for staffing. At that point I retired, but I still keep up with the community through the discussion boards and occasionally logging into the mud to talk to the staff.
Well, I've been mudding for over a year now and have been playing SOI for the majority of that time.. just yesterday I decided I needed a change-up and here I am. I got in contact with a helper who helped (duh) me and explained some things and once I got into chargen and I was accepted first try. 8)
What can I say.. I'm hooked. Armageddon is amazing. I feel like my efforts aren't wasted when I'm solo roleplaying or just thinking. I wish I had better play times (right now I'm only able to manage a couple hours every day) because it seems like everytime I log in that I'm finding myself being sucked in by some incredible plot-line, or meeting some incredibly interesting characters.
Unfortunately, I hear that alot of first time characters bite the dust... and that sort of makes me nervous. Althought I used a very generic background, the character is quickly growing on me and I'm starting to get a feel for it. Hopefully I'll be able to make this one last. I'm having way to much fun.
Quote from: KankmanYeah DSL was actually started by an immortal from Moosehead, around the same time Redemption was as well.. DSL is the perfect example of "roleplay encouraged".
I remember during my early days of playing armageddon, while I was still involved in redemption for some reason...a friend of mine dragged me to a redemption player meeting at the BK on rideau street where we had a spitball fight with someone named Jehu. Ya, that's right. He went by his character name in real life...what a turd.
I remember at one point, arm stopped allowing free email addresses to apply for characters. I got pissed off and emailed the freenet staff and had them remove armageddon from the list of available muds...I think I may have pissed off a couple people without knowing it. My bad.
I used to play h and s's all the time, but they were lacking something... I think i heard cameron0202 talking about it.. with someone else, and i thought hey, that sounds cool, so i checked it out, and have been playing ever since, religiously.