Review Submitted By: Xenos
Author Status: Player
Started on StarMUD: 1999 or 2000
Submission Date: Jan 8, 2007
TMC Listing: StarMUD
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Xenos]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Well, where to start exactly? I've played Star off and on. I
remember the days of guns being like glass. I also remember the days
of when tactics were in, which really contributed to some higher
powered characters. Tribal being the most notable one, last I checked,
he was 3,500 or so Eval, which is short for Evaluation Points.
The population took a dive, badly, and most on these days are idle to
the max. Then again, when a mud is on life support, new players
breathe new life into it.
Guns are fixed, tactics are gone (or being heavily revised). Cthulhu
is now killable (The monster I think is still there, we have an actual
player named Cthulhu, I feel sorry for him. He's a Talnid Martialist
Yokozuna, man, cut him with a butter knife and he dies because of
weaknesses.)
Ravnos is well... he's been around for a long time, some would say
since before White Wolf created the World of Darkness. If I'm right,
Ravnos has been around since it began, and was wizzed in during
early-mid 90's, around the time V:TM became popular. He and I joked
briefly a while back how he should sue White Wolf for ruining his
name.
Then we've got Zac, hardcore Coke addict (The soda of course, I'm a
pepsi guy). Well, he allowed me to test newly coded guns when guns
were still glass. Namely the new cobra laser pistol (now micropoint
laser I think) and the Fer-de-Lance Gatling Laser. That gun right
there? Think the weird minigun the Terminator used in the dream
sequence from the original movie, lotsa lasers.
Zac, however, is deathly afraid of touching the code for psionicist
profession, which is roughly half my age, so around 11 years old;
pretty scary to anyone really.
Back to the mud itself; Xenomorphs! Oh man, fun fun fun, just hope
you don't mind nearly everything attacking you as a Xeno.
Androids, well, credit heavy and patience is needed. Experience points
for them is gained in significantly smaller amounts, but it's just
enough for skillgains, since all their stats are increased by credits.
Choidon are an interesting race. Supposedly they have a huge plasma
resistance, which is impossible to have as any other race, which is
due to their horn on their head. That is used for the cdraw command,
used on energy cells to regain their energy supply, which is
food/water for them. They also get cgore command, which switches from
bare handed fists to their horn. No weapons or armor with those guys,
just a challenge.
Choidon along with the Nightblade subprofession of the Convict
profession also have no way of talking or remote emotes, only tells.
(I've been bugging Zac every now and then to give them channels, he
won't budge... and after saying that choidon are crunchy with
ketchup, i stopped.)
The planets are pretty awesome, domains rather; each has a specific
range for players. Some for newbies, some for veteran eval, and some
areas for Super Players (can only have 1 per account by the way)
Some classes are easier to play than others, but that also cuts down
on their long term playability as well. I have yet to see a Super
Player cybermerc.
Also, there are some races which are rather hard to play, one I
won't touch, such as E'nai; think floating ferns, that's them.
My highest eval character is a Gazh Psionicist, which is such high in
eval with such a hard race. I was told by one of the admin that he
respected me for sticking with it for so long. So yeah, I take the
harder race/prof combos and get laughed at, but I like challenges.
I could go on and on and if I did, you'd want to just hang yourself
about how much I could go on about how great StarMUD is and some of
the players and admin as well.
I'll also say that reboots are daily, but you get a good warning
before they happen. Plus after each reboot is WAR!
Give it a try, you'll either love it or hate it at first, either
way, you will come back; I did, even after a two year hiatus.
