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1. Experienced Coder looking for Established Mud	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Wed Nov 7, 2007 [1:32 PM]
Kostanza gkostanza@gmail.com member since: Nov 7, 2007		Reply
I'll start off first with what I am looking for, then I will follow with what I bring to the table. I am looking for an established mud, which means has been around for at least 6 months, and has a steady player base 10+ at most any given time. An active staff is also a must. I really am not interested in the theme or anything like that, just finding a mud with players who will appreciate the work I put into the game. I realize most muds like this won't need a programmer, but there's always RL issues that come up and a spot opens. Now what I bring to the table: I extensive c/c++ programming knowledge (close to 10 years for C), a degree is computers, and a job where I get paid to write C code. I have done mud programming on and off for 4+ years. I can translate most any idea into code if it is feasible. Just some examples of custom things I have done (custom not meaning idea, but programming): 1. Random Objects, Mobiles, Areas. Started off as separate and eventually put together into a "Wilderness" type area that loads more and more based on the number of players online. 2. Event System. Allows the code to set things to happen in the future, mainly used to keep track of whether a player has too many of an item type for a given length of time. 3. Mobile based tasks: Lets a mob have a task that consists of steps they take to complete it. Ie. taskdecap would consist of searching, attacking, and decapitating a player. 4. Player Houses, home guardians, player lockers. 5. Logging of characters roleplay sessions to immortals to be rewarded at a later time if no one is available to watch (for rp muds) 6. General Debugging skills, gdb. Able to debug most any crash and increase the uptime of the mud. Last mud had uptime of 20+ days if no new code was being copyed in. 7. etc. If you meet the criteria and my skillset interests you feel free to post here or email me at gkostanza@gmail.com. Thanks.

2. RE: Experienced Coder looking for Established Mud	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Wed Nov 14, 2007 [1:47 PM]
Kostanza Email not supplied member since: Nov 7, 2007		In Reply To Reply
Bump. Still looking for a project that fits the above criteria.

3. RE: i might have what you ask about	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Wed May 14, 2008 [3:41 PM]
caliana1 lilmouse6969@gmail.com member since: May 2, 2008		In Reply To Reply
hello there i dont have a mud that been up that long but i would love to i have alote friends that play muds i run. i jusr need a good working coder to help me. so please get back to me if you like to work with a owner that respect's here imms and stuff.

4. RE: Experienced Coder looking for Established Mud	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Tue Jul 22, 2008 [1:46 PM]
Kostanza Email not supplied member since: Nov 7, 2007		In Reply To Reply
*bump* back in the hunt after some time away from muds.

5. RE: Experienced Coder looking for Established Mud	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Tue Jul 22, 2008 [4:10 PM]
slackjaw Email not supplied member since: Jun 10, 2008		In Reply To Reply
Just established? Dont wanna join up with a fairly new project? Sadface!

6. RE: Experienced Coder looking for Established Mud	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Tue Jul 22, 2008 [4:22 PM]
Kostanza Email not supplied member since: Nov 7, 2007		In Reply To Reply
My experience is that at least 99% of new startup muds fail. Yes everyone of them has the "latest and greatest idea and a unique highly modified codebase", but I'm not going to spend anymore of my time working on something that will never be able to be appreciated by players.

7. RE: Experienced Coder looking for Established Mud	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Tue Jul 22, 2008 [5:59 PM]
Drizzt1216 fizban@tbamud.com member since: Aug 12, 2005		In Reply To Reply
Define fail. I'd say at least 99% remain stale forever and never see much change or do anything 'unique'. On the other hand if fail means they don't have any amount of longevity I'd say that figures probably a lot closer to 80%, albeit still rather high.
"Are you tired of MUDs made for money cluttering your searches for free games?" http://mudquest.org

8. RE: Experienced Coder looking for Established Mud	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Thu Jul 24, 2008 [11:51 PM]
Berdusk crocketd@berdusk.com member since: Dec 4, 2004		In Reply To Reply
What codebases do you have experience working with?
Temptation subdues sometimes even the greatest heart. Berdusk: Jewel of the Vale is always hiring. Hit Ilmater up at berdusk.com 2223 to learn more.

9. RE: Experienced Coder looking for Established Mud	rate thread hide Raw Rating: 2.50 4 rating votes to-date You have not rated this thread Useless Poor Average Good Useful	Fri Jul 25, 2008 [8:46 AM]
Kostanza Email not supplied member since: Nov 7, 2007		In Reply To Reply
mainly merc/GW, ROM, and SMAUG. Unless it's written in something other than C/C++ or Java though it's not really anything that can't be figured out.

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