A thriving multiplayer text adventure set in the DUNE Universe https://dunemud.net/ 2026-04-29T18:04:41+00:00 https://dunemud.net/ https://dunemud.net/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/apclustering?rev=1624730729&do=diff AP Clustering I know that everyone likes areas that are close to the astroports. It makes walking from point to point very easy, and reduces the amount of time that people have to jump each other from fighting to getting on a ship. However, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to add areas to the game, because everyone's new area has to be closer to the astroport than everything existing so that it gets noticed. Heck, in a couple of years, it'll be such a problem that areas will be buil… text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/area_scaling?rev=1624730729&do=diff Lack of correlation between the level of the players and the level of the areas Description: We need to slide the content that exists to be better suited for a much larger level span. What this means is taking old areas and tweaking them to be interesting to players bigger than the ~40 levels they were intended for. There are not enough areas for big players. text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/botting?rev=1624730729&do=diff Botting Botting is an issue that every MUD deals with in one way or another at some point in time. To date, we've outright banned bots, killed them down to level 1, ridiculed their players, and been generally mean to people we suspect are botting. Currently, there are very simple rules that determine whether or not a particular account is botting. To wit, if you have a trigger that starts a fight for you, you are botting. text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/guild_leadership?rev=1624730729&do=diff Too few leaders make alliances too static Description: Guild leadership and the politics system needs to be revamped. We have too few real leaders and the alliances are too static to matter. Solution 1: * Less thematic impact. None of the players care about it anyway. Nobody roleplays, the rest of the game is roughly themed, why enforce this too hard? text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/guild_loyalty?rev=1624730729&do=diff Too few leaders make alliances too static Description: Guild leadership and the politics system needs to be revamped. We have too few real leaders and the alliances are too static to matter. Solution 1: * Less thematic impact. None of the players care about it anyway. Nobody roleplays, the rest of the game is roughly themed, why enforce this too hard? text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/issues?rev=1624730729&do=diff Game Issues These are some of the ongoing discussions regarding MUDwide game issues. If you have an issue to add, follow the format laid out here and create a new page. As always, please be civil. Thank you. * AP Clustering * Botting * Correlation between player level and area level * PK/Guild Balance * Guild Leadership * Guild Loyalty * text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/level_spread?rev=1624730729&do=diff Level spread reduces interaction between players. Description: I think that level spread reduces the interaction between players, making it harder to find party partner and hampers PK action. Solution 1: Reduce the number of possible levels on Dune (for example, text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/low_playerbase?rev=1624730729&do=diff Low Playerbase Description: The MUD has been losing old players and not gaining any new players. Thus, the playerbase has gone down drastically over the past 2-3 years. This affects all aspects of the MUD: * Less players means less players becoming wizards which means less new wizards. Resulting in no addition of new areas for quite some time. I don't think I have to dig deep into this, everybody knows the consequence of no new wizards and I think Paradox mentioned it in his letter. text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/pk_balance?rev=1624730729&do=diff Problems in PK/guild balance. [Needs to be edited - that's not an issue. What are the problems that lack of PK/guild balance cause?] Solution 1: All guilds: update, put in new ratios, perhaps restrict pk-action if you are NOT in-ratio. Solution 2: text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/projects?rev=1624730729&do=diff CURRENT MUD PROJECTS GUILD CODE OPTIMIZATION PROJECT We are in the process of going through old guild code and bringing it up to modern standards. Throughout the years, there have been many ambitious guild projects that have brought many fun features to the mud. Unfortunately, many of these features use a lot of unnecessary resources. We have, in the past few years, learned how to make leaner, more efficient code and we have been spending much of our time implementing this type of code. text/html 2021-06-26T18:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://dunemud.net/old/discussion/pwmeeting14?rev=1624730729&do=diff Mreh says: Hi, everyone, thanks for being here. Amastacia nods at Mreh. Mreh says: So, as the wiki post said, I'm looking to discuss four main topics tonight. Mreh says: They are: the dwindling playerbase, the serverside gagging project, the consideration of allowing botting with heavy restrictions, and the consideration of allowing multi-logging. Mreh says: The third and fourth points sort of tie into one another, but we'll get there. Mreh says: Each of these points is open to discussion, …