Review Submitted By: Omishtravantos
Author Status: Player
Started on Dartmud: 11/12/08
Submission Date: Nov 16, 2008
TMC Listing: Dartmud
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Omishtravantos]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Well, I played this MUD for a week. And that's the shortest I've
EVER played a MUD. This one, however, as you can clearly see has
disappointed me greatly. A friend of mine, whose name I won't
release, told me about the MUD. He talked on and on and on about how
great it was how the RP was just awesome. But for the week I played I
noticed several things that an RP MUD of this caliber was without. For
one thing, it was missing a greet system, now don't get me wrong
there are a couple MUDs I could name that were good without, but none
of them were RP enforced. Or at least RP Mandatory.
Now, you tell me, what kind of RP MUD goes without a greet-system? It
kills more RP then it promotes, considering people automatically see
your name and title without even knowing it ICly. That was one thing,
the second thing I noticed, was the LACK of RP. Sure, I ran into a
good amount of RPers, but I ran into more idiots then I did RPers.
People playing with socials for no RP reason, like groping you,
licking you, poking you, and all such annoying and non-RP-based
socials. Now is that really something you'd actually SEE in an RP MUD
that has some decency within the playerbase? I think not.
The third thing in which I was greatly disappointed was a rule
against using emotes to say things or emoting while saying things at
the same time. Now, this I understand, considering with most MUDs that
have multiple races have multiple languages. Am I right? But the fact
that they didn't even have a secondary command or even a supported
feature to allow it in anyway, was rather disappointing. If the coder
can code in multiple limbs, and interesting races such as the elephant
people, I'm sure they would be able to find SOME way to allow such a
feature. But apparently, the coder is either TOO LAZY or simply
doesn't care for supporting extra RP. And one of the players had the
nerve to say how it would HINDER RP. Now that's just plain silly, I
can name several SEVERAL MUDs that have such a feature some that I've
quit playing a long time ago.
If I were to rate this MUD, I'd give it a 3/10. It has potential,
but if the players continue being idiots and RPing while either drunk,
stoned, or in someway in an altered state of mind, then the MUD won't
last much longer. The rankings on TOPMUDSITES even says that clearly.
Well, I'm done now. If whoever reads this has any sense of decency,
take my word. Don't play this MUD, there are plenty of MUDs that are
much better.
This has been a review by Omishtravantos, thank you.
