Review Submitted By: Gene Mingo
Author Status: Player
Started on Adventures Unlimited: today
Submission Date: Aug 1, 2008
TMC Listing: Adventures Unlimited
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Gene Mingo]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
I was having problems connecting to the mud I usually play, so on a
recommendation I tried AU.
At first glance, it has everything one could want in a fantasy based
mud. Interesting race choices and most of the standard classes one
would expect with a few more creative ones.
I quickly made a character, which was very easy to do and jumped
right into the action. I found the newbie school and quickly started
to get some xp so that I could move on to questing and player
interaction. The school was easy enough and seemed like most I have
encountered on similar styles of muds.
The mud is listed as RP encouraged and I do like to RP so I was very
interested in getting done with the school.
About ten minutes into the game my first hunger warning flashed up. I
didn't give it much thought. I just ate some food and kept on xping.
Then almost ten minutes later it happened again. So i ate once more
and went back to killing mobiles. The third time the hunger warning
flashed was ten minutes later. At this point I started to get a bit
annoyed. How many times do I need to eat in one day? Well after just
sort of an hour I had to eat five times and drink a lot. I am not sure
what causes my intense need to be eating all the time, but is was very
annoying. I asked why I had to eat so often on the newbie channel and
was told that once my constitution was higher it would happen less.
This was really not the answer I was looking for. Luckily for me I had
chosen to play a warrior char and was spending training points on con
already.
While I will probably try to get past the eating annoyance, more than
likely I will not make this my mud of choice. I really can't
understand why on an RP mud you would have the hunger come up so fast.
I can imagine myself getting into some nice RP with another player and
having to eat three or for times before we can finish a single
conversation.
Other than the eating problem, Adventures Unlimited looks like a
great mud filled with countless hours of exploration and quests.
Oh, Did I mention the other players were very friendly as well.
