We all have them; the lazy players who sit at the Fountain all day, socializing or bitching or just idling. So, what are the top 10 excuses for not playing the Game? Here is a couple, to start things off:

1. I like to explore slowly, so I always will have areas to look into.
2. I'm a jester, that's my rp!

Worse: people that join a guild just so they can talk to even MORE people.

I only joined so I could talk to them since they're never at recall.

You make socializing sound like a bad thing.

Someone's a jester on FR...supposedly, he doesn't really do much jesting though, but more than sitting around.

I have one who just sits in a temple chatting though occasionally he does roam near the temple and kill a few fidos. He's been hanging around for about six years and I pick on him.

His excuse when I ask him is "but, I'll get killed!" Duh.

The picking on part is the funniest though, cause I've dubbed him our 'statue' and he has pigeons for friends. He plays along too which is neat. Hmm, a perma-script to create pigeons to fly around and land on his shoulders. Hmm, white blotches.

Some people come to muds to "chat" with friends rather then to really play the game.
Just like they come to IRC to chat.

Makila.

Oh jeez, i'm tired to hell of those types.

I think the number 1 reason they dont move is that they're scared of getting their asses handed to them.

On a mud I used to play on, we had a kid who never used to leave the clanhall, like ever. I'd tell him 'You ought to get out more, get some sun'

He'd say 'It's dangerous out there'.

One day, i got tired of hearing it so I replied 'It's not much safer in here' and attacked him. Suffice to say, he got out more after that.

I never realized there was such a strong sentiment against players who opt to hang out and socialize around town square. I do it all the time with one of my characters, a bard, because, well, she's an entertainer.
So long as you're staying in character while you socialize, why would such behavior be considered "not playing the game"?
- T.

Oh if it's ROLEPLAY chatter, i'm all for it. Love that stuff to death. I just don't see how getting info on how to get answers to science homework is in character on a Wheel of Time themed mud.

If they were singing it, perhaps... <imagines terrible songs of gasseous masses>

I am a mud owner? When do i have time to play?

"My character is a pacifist, so there is nothing for him to do."

How about :

"Ive already maxxed out (level wise) 3 characters already and explored the entire MUD"

Usually I point them to here or TMC and suggest looking for something with a larger amount of rooms (forgot which one it was, but did see a MU* that boasted over 250K "orginal" rooms)

This is hilarious. Lazy? Work? We are talking games no? Now the powerplayers aren't satisfied unless everyone else is too?

Yeah, it's a game, but it's supposed to be a challenging game. All I'm saying is that a lot of whiny newbies simply can't handle a little challenge and would prefer things to be easy for them. Of course, there's nothing more offputting than an over-complicated MUD, but then having a really easy MUD is just dull. It's like playing Snakes and Ladders with no snakes.

Okay, my mistake, I thought it was supposed to be a roleplaying game.

Just being a smarty-pants to make a point. What the game is "supposed" to be matters very little. Different people enjoy rp games for different reasons. I personally go through stages emphasising different aspects of the game at different times. I can go months without making any effort to advance my character, then go months doing nothing but advancing my character. The only aspect I make any effort to keep consistant is my character's personality.

Challenging is different things to different people and some people aren't at all interested in being "challenged". They just want to relax and have fun. I don't see why that should be a problem for anyone else.

Calm down, Seraphina, the entire thread is supposed to be a joke. This is the Mud Humour section, no?

Umm, Molly, you didn't get the joke? <tickle> That's okay you are not alone. I didn't see anything particularly humorous about a number of posts in this thread. If you reread the thread I think you will note a number of serious criticisms and a number of serious replies.

I really do find it hilariously funny that on a board about roleplaying games so much stress is placed on powergaming. You don't see any irony there?

Seraphina, this isn't a board about roleplaying games - it's a board about muds.

However as someone who also plays roleplaying games, I'd like to point out that within such games "challenge" certainly is a very important factor.  I don't think my players would enjoy the game half as much if they didn't have to think, and didn't have any chance of dying.

I would say that the same applies to most muds as well.