Mud client protocol?
I am still very green to the MUD development and many flavors of M**s
While reading a lot of posts online and through this forum there are a few things I keep seeing which is never explained.
My questions are..
Are there or has there been any MUD servers which also supply client applications?
Is there a reason many MUD developers stick with the basic telnet client side?
Has there ever been a attempt to standardize a MUD protocol?
It seems most I see are built around telnet connections, having the clients be either very basic or 3rd party built.
I would think that a protocol even per distribution would be a natural next step.
Everything else has become a common protocol within ftp, http, smtp, ssl, imap, etc...
The benefits would/could be storage of information, better communication.
This could also be controlled by distributing binary sources only.
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