New world of AR!

Shughurd · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 128 Location: Estonia

Set up a builder port, after the summer is over and everyone is back in their apartments too afraid of the cold weather, we should get some people and totally, TOTALLY rebuild the map, all new zones, all non-stock and all fully original! Even if it takes for 6 months, it is worth it!
My points of view:

1) It will attract old players to come back as everything seems new and there's a lot to explore, learn and do for them.
2) It will attract people who have experiences with muds already, i mean, AR looks like yet another Rom mud, if you check the area list, it is yet another mud with 50% of stock areas. There needs to be something attracting for new players, i would never-ever choose AR over Carrion Fields if i would be a total n00b in both, as CF has a lot more depth it appeals new players instantly!
3) Abandoned Realms shouldn't mean that this place actually is abandoned...I mean you can revamp the damn map and move one zone from one place to another, but it's not really enough. Need to build and show something more unique than just combat module!
4) For RP mud, the MOST important is the atmosphere of the mud! You would get to create A LOT more appealing world if everything is specially written just for AR with the little AR touch included. Stock areas = the crap, seriously.
5) Heck, it wouldn't take longer than 6 months to build up up to 10-15 decent well-written areas.
6) Why do i insist playing muds after 10+ years with several MMO experience? I don't like to be forced to see the pixels what some designer drawed for me, i want to see things in my own way, use my own imagination. Good room descs in towns and whatever give that eerie feeling.
7) Think about the fun part of it!

The only shitty thing is that most ppl are so lazy that they just wont bother to learn the new places...

Amdorin · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:02 am Post subject:

Wouldn't it be cool if....

(Yes. Shut up, I am trolling. Razz

)

I'm glad you are into the game enough to throw ideas. But from my past three trolls I've seen like 6 new threads from you saying the same thing above.

Davairus · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:30 am Post subject:

I spent a lot of time at the end of last year recoding objects so that we can create special kinds of doors and traps. e.g. you can pull a lever of some sort, and a door opens on the other side of an area for 5 seconds. Then you send a groupmate through the door, because you can't get there that fast. Things like that. Someday Resatimm is going to get his 50-60 things to do with that new code actually put into the game.

I think area-wise, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

Resatimm · Takes the Cake Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 980

Wow that would actually make me start building again

Davairus · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject:

Its been finished for half a year..

Resatimm · Takes the Cake Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 980

So ill build on paper, fax the maps to you, and you can go to town *cough*

Davairus · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:54 am Post subject:

Fine with me

Mandor · Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 794

deauja · Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 149 Location: rain forest

thanks for listening too us sorry if were negative sometimes just be patient with us. lots of changes, i still see alot of ar that i really like,
so much about this mud makes it the best mud, and so much about
this game makes it the best game, i find myself trying too play another
rpg or game and just dreaming of the live world of ar where i can say or do anything i please, and never know what to expect from folk. really i
think whatever happens im going too be here, just keep on listening
to our concerns and dont put up with any ones attitude dav, love deuaja.

Davairus · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject:

Resatimm · Takes the Cake Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 980

No no no no

You PUSH boulders
PULL levers
etc etc etc

And the trick is, the SUB DESCRIPTIONS in the room will hold the clues. You look around and there is a big black boulder in the description. You look at the boulder and you see fresh scrapes around its base.

Now, obviously it is endless how complicated it can become.
PULL LEFT BIG TOE IN A TWISTING MANNER

Davairus · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:47 am Post subject:

Yeah sure, well, ready to go whenever you are.

Shughurd · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 128 Location: Estonia

HAHA WTF! Resatimm played MUME:D ?

There's plenty of pull lever shit around there for group smobs, and need to push tons of boulders in Moria:D

Haha, copykat!

Louis · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 823 Location: Los Angeles, CA

i was thinking in order to push it into a newb's head, instead of using a mob to say it or have them read something to know

what if there is a pull lever in the mud school and it just makes it appear on their screen as:

PULL the lever. Try it out: PULL LEVER!

Davairus · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject:

New mudschool (dunno if you seen it) def has plenty space for things like this. I would love to show it off in that place. But yeah.. I'm saying this because you get all those people that thought the boogum boulder had disappeared when I made "open down" fail, in favour of "open boulder" etc. And to throw push boulder on top.. well you can imagine. Like Res said, there needs to be clues in the room description, which in turn implies there's someone making those room descriptions worth reading.

Mandor · Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 794

then have newbie mode (i.e. 1-9 ranks) give them tips whenever they meet such locations.

if you walk onto the boogum boulder, it says:
check the room description for this, then examine that.

for the tree trunk, likewise.

I guess the point would be to get people in the habit of looking for clues when something isnt immediately obvious.

Resatimm · Takes the Cake Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 980

Who cares if the room descriptions arent worth reading, people will be FORCED to read them if they wanna find the secrets. Its perfect for quest areas, maybe instead of keys to get to Xanthak, you have to find the hidden button on a non-descript brick in the upper corridors of Dal Kadar... And the idea is, there is a timer on the passages, so when you walk into the room, it will be in the room exits list, until it closes.

Ive never heard of MUME, but the 100% custom mud i played years and years and years ago had all sorts of fun stuff like that.

I am afraid that if I start building, I will fall off the "Mud Wagon". Ive been addiction free for about 18 months now, and the last thing I need is to MUD again.........

marsd · Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 832 Location: Magewares

In favour of this 100%, now how long more do we have to keep this discussion up before we see a few of these "talks" in action? I remember we've been discussing about this in chat since before December last year too... Amount of creativity that can potentially spawn from this change is tremendous, on the builder's part that is... Not just the methods of looking for clues, but more of how the builder writes the descriptions.

Shughurd · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 128 Location: Estonia

In order to get someone actually read the room desc, you need to use caps or colour or something catchy...just like Louis said!

PULL THE DAMN LEVER ALREADY YOU NEWB!

or

WOULD YOU STOP SCREWING AROUND AND PUSH THE DAMNED BOULDER?

Davairus · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:39 pm Post subject:

Its settled then. Shurgurd will write them.

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