Review Submitted By: Carshel
Author Status: Player
Started on Shattered World: Several years ago
Submission Date: Jun 23, 2009
TMC Listing: Shattered World
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Carshel]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Imagine a world in which YOU control the destiny. I guess that line
is kind of used, eh? Many MUDs claim to be player-controlled, and some
do a pretty good job of it, but none like Shattered World. As an
example, it is SO player-controlled, that it cannot be played alone.
Allow me to give a description of the Greatest Land that Ever Was:
Where to start? Guild, I guess. Guilds have bank accounts, and you
have to pay dues. Guilds have relations with other guilds, and some
can be more or less powerful than others (Ke'Ting, the thieves guild,
usually has the most influence).
How about cults next? Spellpoints don't regenerate in Shattered
World, so you have to get magic crystals and sacrifice them for
spellpoints. Not with a cult. With a cult, you 'pulverize' them to
put points into the cult pool. When you need SP's, you can draw them
out of the pool, wherever you are. The point of a cult is to raise its
leader to be King or Queen of Sanom City. Which brings me to the next
point.
Sanom City is the main city of Shattered World. It is run by a
player-elected King or Queen who can do pretty much whatever they
want. The admin does hold Supreme Governmental powers to make sure the
King/Queen doesn't totally destroy the game, but I never saw them
used.
Now to shops. Construction companies exist to allow players to build
shops in virtually any city they want. It would be truly possible to
gain an economic clinch hold on the world, if one had the money. There
is an auction house in Sanom where one can buy anything from a sword
to a great business.
Shattered World is truly the greatest MUD of all time. I can
guarantee you, that if you drop by, you will not be disappointed. But
everyone must drop by! We are the new generation, to revitalize this
MUD. If everyone who reads this plays the MUD, I guarantee, it will
once again become...
The Greatest Land that Ever Was.
