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www.google.com


Apparently, URL tags are broken or I shouldn't post at 2 A.M.

Edited, Jul 8th 2009 3:03am by Darkdoom

ive tried google multiple times, and no luck, looks like i finally found something google CANT find, unless of course im doing it wrong and youd like to show me how its done?

I think the latter.

What is an AberMud?

MUD stands for Multi User Dungeon - basically a really really old school text based multiplayer rpg .

AberMUD was one of the first really popular ones , with the Aber standing for the town where it was created, Aberystwyth .

Asking for help or tips on quests is generally frowned upon in MUD communities though, and I think not having everything written out makes the games far more enjoyable to play .

youre right about not having everything written out makes it far more enjoyable, but what happens when youve tried everything you can and been stuck for days, youre saying then you should quit or stop playing rather than get help?

Now it would be different if I never tried that quest on my own first and just wanted someone to tell me how to do it from beginning to end without me ever attempting to do it on my own first (i.e those people who get on wiki and look up exactly what to do on a quest or mission in ffxi on day one right out the gate.)Ill at least try something first then if i get stuck ask for help.

Besides some of those quests are extremely vague and obscure, for example theres one quest in which a part of it requires you to make a bomb and before you actually make the bomb they dont even tell you what it is your supposed to be making, so you didnt even know it was gonna be a bomb until it was actually made all you get is a piece of paper and a crucible from an apothecarys shop, all that paper tells you is (and i quote) "mix carbon, sulphur, and a nitrous oxidizing agent into the crucible" ok sulphur was easy theres an item called sulphur sitting right next to you in the same place you got the crucible and paper.


Ok all you know is the remaining two items are in the town somewhere where the quest takes place, no clue as to where in the town they maybe, and the town has roughly 50 different rooms/areas so there are 50 possible places those last two items could be and no clue on where to start your search for them, also theres no item called "carbon" or "nitrous oxidizing agent" (or even nitrous oxide) in the game so even if you stumbled upon it you wouldnt know what it was unless you were exceptionally intelligent.

So finally I go to to wiki and look up carbon and nitrous oxidizing agents and i didnt find anything useful so i tried a different approach and started looking up items ive foudn in teh quest areas on wiki, one of the many items i looked up that i had found was charcoal and sure enough wiki mentioned carbon in its page regarding charcoal, another one of many items i looked up was fertilizer and sure enough wiki mentioned nitrous oxide (or nitrous) somewhere on its fertilizer page, so i mixed those 3 items and sure enough a bomb was made. now keep in mind MUDs came out in the 90s this was way before the days of sites like wiki, so back then how many people would have beensmart enough to completely figure that out on their own? how many of YOU could have without any assistance known to mix the charcoal and fertilizer yyu found with the sulphur when the paper told you to mix sulphur carbon and a nitrous oxidizing agent?


so yeah not everyone would have figured stuff like that out so asking for help with things that could get that difficult is surely understandable lol theyre not like those very little brainpower requiring quests of mmorpgs today lol. Also just to elaborate on help for quests being frowned upon I might agree 10 years ago when MUDS were stll popular but now youre lucky to see even 1 player actively playing, who cares if someone has their hand held or cheats in a dead game? Thayre like the original Doom and Quake now back when they first came out they were popular and got the utmost treatment from their developers, nowadays they so dead the developers give the games source code out for free to allow people to do whatever they want to them, thats how i look at having help in MUD quests these days to be.

Edited, Jul 10th 2009 3:36pm by DuoMaxwellxx

No, you're right. It would take a genius to figure out that charcoal contains carbon, and fertilizer contains nitrogen.

At any rate, you might have better luck finding help in the multi-game forum?

Average people also can't read fast enough to bother playing a MUD in the first place. Besides which, if you didn't know charcoal has carbon, there's just no goddamn hope for you. On a side note, 50 rooms is not a large area to search in a MUD. Move east. No items here? Okay, north.

I never took chem, and even I could have figured out the charcoal/carbon thing, and I probably would have guessed the fertilizer/nitrous thing quick enough.

That chemical mix is even quite well known as a very basic recipe for home made explosives, almost as well known as the one for cheapo-homemade gaseous chemical weapons.