Review Submitted By: Lorya
Author Status: Player
Started on Illusions of the Mind: December, 1995
Submission Date: Sep 6, 2006
TMC Listing: Illusions of the Mind
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Lorya]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
I mudded here for a good 2-3 years when it was just beginning and it
had a lot of things that I really enjoyed about it. I lost internet
access and never really got back into this particular Mud again
because of dramatic changes and I didn't really feel like relearning.
Mostly though, I had just lost interest.
Now, I've only been back at the Mud after about 10 years for a week
and I have a lot of good and bad things to say after such a long
absence. Plus, there haven't been any comments on here in a long
time about this particular MUD and I didn't want people to think it
was dead.
Pros
1. There are a lot of societies to chose from, but there doesn't
seem to be a lot of society members that are active in each of the
societies.
2. You can level pretty quickly and your skills raise pretty quickly.
3. The area layout is easy to learn, or relearn, and there is plenty
of different places to go.
4. There is plenty of safe places to rest in and generally speaking,
at this point most people don't live there.
5. There is a guild specifically for helping new people, which if
there are new people is a great thing.
CONs
1. There are IMMs and IMPs that care about the place, but it
doesn't seem like anybody is really doing anything to improve
the situation.
2. The helpfiles are a mess, the helpfiles that are needed are not
present. It would be difficult for a new user to rely upon the
helpfiles for any assistance.
3. From what I understand it has been a while since they have had a
coder dedicated to the place, so changes are slow and things that
need to get done aren't.
4. The website is outdated and doesn't seem like it will be updated
in the future.
5. Obviously, there is not enough different players to make things
interesting. Which hopefully improves.
All and all, Illusions of the Mind still has the potentional to be a
good Mud, what is lacking is a good playerbase and an admin staff
that cares more about keeping things up to date. I might be in fact
wrong and they do care, but from what I've seen thus far it does not
seem to be true. Most of the IMMs appear to be waiting for direction,
to be given something to do but nobody seems to be instructing them.
So, I'll be sticking around for a while with the hope that the
potentional will be rewarded and become a great MUD again.
