Review Submitted By: Nan
Author Status: Player
Started on Kingdoms of the Lost: about March 2004
Submission Date: Nov 15, 2004
TMC Listing: Kingdoms of the Lost
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Nan]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
This review is my opinion based on observations of players and imms
while playing on KoTL over the past six months or so. It is not
meant as a destructive review, but one that might get people who
love a good roleplay to get involved and to help put the family
back into the MUD.
As far as Mud play, read Magus's review of Oct 8, 2004, it describes
the world in vivid detail. The Mud also in many respects tries to keep
a family friendly atmosphere.
Since the Mud wipe and redesign, many things have changed in the
realm of players and imms. The number of players has dropped
considerably and the imms have appeared to lose something.
First the play. There seems to be an emphasis on realism like food
and drink. And there are a few players who agitate for more
restrictions based on reality. This is fantasy, not my daily job!
There are ways around some of it, but it makes the game more work and
less fun.
Second the players. The lack of players I see stems from two issues.
The first is the lack of a PK system. While I do not like PK, too many
people who mud seem to. I would like to see the Mud continue without
PK since it seems that PK causes a lot of problems with the spoiled
brats who just want to destroy people's hard work. Secondly, many of
the people who remain seem to have formed little groups, apparently
geographically related, but not always. There are a few people who
still go out of their way to help you with spells (and some even do it
for free) and to invite you to group, but not like before.
And third, the imms. I do not know any of them personaly, but overall,
if you have a real problem with the programming or a bug you can
usually get help. What I have seen is the imms acting like sex starved
high school freshmen over the imm global broadcast channel (not
blockable). And that gets some of the players doing the same thing
over the out of character channel. Pinning people on a wall with
passionate kisses, fondling thighs, sucking ear lobes, and more
detract from the aforementioned family rating. Also, there seems to
be a bit of edginess toward people complaining about the way things
are implemented. Granted a few doth complain excessively, but it
makes it not a good environment for making a complaint/suggestion
(depends on the suggestion too).
Overall I like the Mud, the depth of play and the options make for a
lot of fun. But there are problems in the system and maybe all it
would take is a new wave of fresh people who do not care about PK and
just want to have fun exploring, leveling, and sharing life OOC.
Well, back to KoTL, I have some skills to GM!
