Review Submitted By: Scott
Author Status: Player and staff member
Started on Shadowrun - Denver: Three years ago
Submission Date: Nov 5, 2004
TMC Listing: Shadowrun - Denver
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Scott]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
I've been a player and a staffer on Shadowrun: Seattle, Shadowrun:
Detroit, and Shadowrun: Denver; starting on Seattle in 1994. I've
served as Director of Roleplaying on all three for various periods of
time. My current role on Denver is that of the line admin in charge of
thematic consistency, something which Denver had been missing for a
while.
Jonathan Bayles is also one of my best friends and was the best man
at my wedding. At the time of his original review I mostly agreed with
everything he had to say. Since then, though, Denver has changed and
how it's changed bears noting here.
The codebase is still outstanding. Craig and Wyldfire, still with the
game, no longer try to run everything--the shiny veneer of their
idealism has been somewhat tempered by experience, and they've
changed the way the place runs to include more voices in the top and
middle levels of staff. Player pages are not as 'monitored' as the
earlier review would want you to believe.
The consent rules have also been modified to avoid people abusing
them. There's no 'provoke than avoid' behavior pattern anymore,
since it is possible to kill people who display such behaviors; player
killing *is* possible but it's also rare. The sexual activity that
happens on all MUXI occurs behind closed doors.
The game has blossomed over the years to be the most populous
Shadowrun MUX on the internet and is regularly in the top 25 in terms
of average overall logins of *any* non-MUD (roleplaying-based MUSH or
MUX). Theme and storyline have been extended, with a new and ambitious
megaplot project scheming to involve all of the players and staff in
something with the potential to change the Shadowrun universe on
Denver (disclaimer: I'm the guy in charge of that megaplot, so I'm
biased.)
In short, Denver is probably the best Shadowrun experience you will
find in the world of online text-based roleplaying games. I hope
you'll come and at least check us out to see what we're about.
--Shayd
