Hi,

I don't promote any mud but I do have a couple of suggestions.

I think any of the IRE (Iron Realms) muds meet your criteria. Namely, Lusternia or Imperian. Although all of them are top-notch.

Also, not too new but at the top of the list is Geas. It is RP intensive, class-less and level-less and a ton of fun. I highly recommend it!

wasd

Thanks, but I've tried those before and they're not quite what I'm looking for. I'd like something a -little- newer than those guys--they mostly seem as if they're just the older versions rereleased with a few updates, new class names, and a new world setting.

Check out Akanbar. I haven't played it for a while now, but it's a new (I think it's technically still in "beta", but it's been around for a while now) rp-intensive mud that fits most of your criteria. I played for a while before deciding to start playing Awakenedworlds which is a great mud, albeit not fairly new and not exactly what you're looking for -- it's a Shadowrun, ie Cyberpunk, mud.

Well crap, sorry.  This is from one of our Implementors:

"Down for a bit."

The problem is with the server or network, not the MUD itself. We're in contact with our hosting company and presently going through our normal routine for troubleshooting and repairing the (currently unknown) problem. We'll update further as we understand more.


That's embarrasing, talk about bad timing!  Hope you get a chance to check it out once they resolve the issue.

Also, regarding "drama" issues with an older mud.  We certainly have our share of drama amongst our community of players.  I imagine even a newer mud wont be free of that.  With our mud itself, however, being 100% in-character, you have to visit various forums (especially the player-run forums) to get a dose of it.  During gameplay itself, everyone should be roleplaying their individual characters.  I think the occasional friction causer is inevetible when we're dealing with the anoynomous internet.

EDIT: Okay, our hosting company fixed part of the problem, and should be handling the rest shortly. For now our website and forums are back up, but not the game just yet.

Trying to powerlevel on AR while CF is down is a pastime for some guys. Because you can do things like this:

* attack/suicide your own guild guardian six times
* say OMG LOLZ d00d upon discovering your IRL friends are in the game
* whine about there being no charred bracers, spider axes, etc. Over a public channel.
* get ass kicked by goblins and say "this mud is gay"

You'll get deleted for it, but you can do them.

Abandoned Realms. Where its one big FREE happy deny party!

Did you mean for that to come off pointless and retarded?

Just curious. I couldn't decide if it was some kind of misconcieved satire or unintentional.

Yeah, it was just meant to be a bit of pointless fun and humour like I had to sit through. I'll take the eggs on my face sunny side up, thanks. Some entertaining events that transpired on our mud today courtesy of some bored mudders from Carrion Fields. It was an enlightening experience though, they brought up some issues with newbie levelling that hadn't been seen before, even while just messing around. CF's got a real gift in having helpful players like that.

I was very impressed to meet a guy that had been mudding since merc. Only other guy I've met that old wandering around on our mud was claiming to be Set (he wrote the stock areas Solace, Treetops, a few others)... its really cool to meet old farts like that.

I am playing Achaea,First Age Avalon and Carrion Fields(just began today).I love all three of them.Very much involving.
And to correct the admin from Carrion,the muds from Iron are free of charge.Players can purchase extras if they wish.That is all
Anyway,fee; free to try those three.I am sure you will like one of them.

P.S. My character name in all MUDs is Ikki

If you can get on and play for free, against folks who have purchased uber things with real money for their characters that they can never loose and you can never get (without paying them cash money too), I just don't count that as "free" mudding. "Free to get your ass kicked" maybe, or "Free to pay them cash."

Anyway, that's one of the reason I recomended CF to Rykkan. IRE muds advertise themselves for free, when they're not free. On CF, real money will never have an affect on a character in the game, ever.

I was just responding to the admin from Carrion.
And even though Iron suggest buying extras,that is still a person's choice.
I surely play both Iron Realms games(right now Achaea) and Carrion.
As far as new ones,Lusternia would surely fit the bill.Lusternia is the latest from Iron Realms and it is also the most complex.
Another one may be Medieva,although I am not sure how new is that one

Med is very old, and just mentioning it's name here sparks more flames than you want to know about. To sum up all the flames before the start, they have heavily modified the Diku licence, claim since they changed all the code they originally used the no longer have to abide by the agreement and now use Med to make money. They were kicked off TMS once for that(or so I've heard), and was let back not too long ago. They violted TMS rules, refused to abide by them and was removed again. Decide what you will with that, I don't feel like seeing that flame war start again.

Never played their games, so don't know much about it from there.

[quote] I was very impressed to meet a guy that had been mudding since merc. Only other guy I've met that old wandering around on our mud was claiming to be Set (he wrote the stock areas Solace, Treetops, a few others)... its really cool to meet old farts like that.

lol my title is Evil old fart

yep were an older mud started aournd mid 1996 by a bunch of old farts , and yes were still kicking and still have alot of the origional players visiting daily

sparky aka lucifer owner and admin of
the secret of atlas 4444 or 4445

I'm confused. You're saying this is a game for pusses and you're proud of that?

Not every MUD is a competitive game, but if you're going to be one, do it right. How boring would it be to watch a basketball game where the teams didn't try very hard to score because they didn't want to hurt the other team's feelings?

No one ever became great at anything by being babied.

Actually, I believe I said people don't get a rise out of cheese pks. So being able to one round a newbie, which is not much of a challenge, is not something a lot of vets reallly care to do. Instead, they'd probably go out of their way and help said newbie. If it's vet vs vet, it is no holds barred, and usually someone ends up naked. But, like I said, newbies who don't know what's going on and who are going get cheesed are given an easier time. I'd appreciate if you didn't attempt to misrepresent what I said in an implied ad mudinem attack.

Thanks for the edit. This post self-edited, since the issue went away.

null point.

I would have to disagree with the boast that AR doesn't have bottom feeding "vets"... its part of the "Seven Stages of Mudding"....

(long post, may wanna just scroll)

1 - Complete newbie: You barely know how to move around and still use abbreviations such as plz coz thx and so on and so forth. You can spend many hours bewildered as you read the help files for a bunch of "cool" spells. The greatest thing in all the world to you is a fiery dagger.

2 - Complete trash: Now that you have mastered the art of walking around you rank up to 15 with your stone giant warrior. Immediately upon reaching rank 15 you bash the first thing that moves. Possibly a gnoll. This stage usually lasts a few months, with the person making several characters between 20-35, getting progressively higher with each guy.

3 - I pwn j00: You are the greatest thing to have ever blessed this game. No one who has come before you has ever been as badass as you are right now. You don't even have to be level 50, it doesn't matter. You rock, everyone else sucks, and even if you haven't killed everyone before that doesn't matter either, because you know you can. You talk #### and laugh at the vets who have been here for 6 years when they call you a dumbass.

4 - Semi-competence: You've realized you're not the greatest thing since sliced bread and have toned down your antics a bit. Between phase 3 and phase 4 you lay low a bit, trying to distance yourself from the reputation you earned in phase 3. You try a new class, or perhaps enter an almost cabal. Like heralds.

5 - Competence: Congratulations, you don't suck. This is what newbies aspire to, and with a lot of hard work and a little luck some of them even make it here. You don't flame much, you try not to toot your own horn, and you can die without bitching about it for a week. At this point you are ready to enter your first real cabal. Probably Knights or Legion. For most players this is where they will stay for the majority of their time here at AR.

6 - Elite: One day you sit down and try to calculate all the time you have spent on AR and end up punching yourself in the forehead. You've played AR religiously for 6 years. You've had 30 some level 50's, dozens of cabaled characters, been leader in almost every cabal, had quest classes (vampires), had custom titles, had restrung items (aberdour's yam bags comes to mind) and pretty much know almost everyone and everything to do with AR. In most cases it takes years to go from phase 5 to phase 6 but sadly if you take a break from AR it has shown that you rapidly slide from 6 back to 5. There are very few people in AR who are elite, and even fewer still will reach phase 6 in their mudding time at AR.

7 - Retired Elite: Ah yes, you have been playing AR non-stop for almost as long as you can remember. It's time to take a break. After a few months of no AR you visit the forum or chat room and get hooked again. You make a new character. Nothing is as you remember it. Ranking takes longer. Training is harder. You die to someone at level 35 and spend 5 minutes resting in the temple because you are staring at the screen blankly in amazement. This never would have happened "back in the day" but your breif hiatus has cost you dearly. You will be lucky if you ever again regain your glory of old. Some immortals claim to be retired elites. Don't you believe it.