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Mud Theme
Star Wars, Star Wars, Star Wars. If ever a mud sticks
to a theme like glue, it's KoBra. You log into the
'Central Control' of a space-station, and from the
outset, you are bombarded with descriptive and carefully
written long descriptions setting the scene early,
and well. Not once in my travels on the realm did I
notice anything not based on the theme of this mud.
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Mud Atmosphere
People seemed to be very friendly on the comm channel
on KoBra, but this is most certainly not a newbie-friendly
mud. I found it difficult to get help from any other
player, and after scouring the help files, I could not
find any reference on how to access the comm channel
myself-- I could see what was being said, but there
was no command I could find that would let me talk on
it; perhaps they don't allow newbies to use it. I did
run into one person that helped me out, which was much
appreciated. I found little role-playing, most people
were talking 'OOC' on the channels, but chatter seemed
light-hearted and friendly.
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Mud World
The world of KoBra is extremely well-written, well
thought out, and has many wonderful secrets for those
that take the time to really look at the room descriptions.
Every item in the rooms that I saw had a corresponding
description when typing 'look at - '. It was very
easy to immerse my character into the game, I got used
to checking the time-table for the Dalcrynn Space Ship,
and after mapping the areas I found it was easy to
find out where to go. I noticed a few places where there
were obvious quests, and I wished I was high enough to
complete them, as they were very clever from what I saw.
The ship-system is extremely well made, very impressive,
and a very good idea. The time-tables are even set up
with an average time of the 'loop' the ship takes!
I have to say C3PO was very funny, following me around
and talking to me, I had to run real fast to lose him...
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Summary
Great care has been put into making this mud, and while
the players are not necessarily newbie-friendly, with
20-30 people on a night, it looks to be a very popular
mud for Star Wars fans. The mud seems hard, every player
on levels 3-5 were at least a day old, and some of the
players in the mid-teen levels were up to 40-50 days old,
which shows a very dedicated player base. For any new
player, take heed, you will need a lot of patience to start,
it took me 10 hours of play to wade through enough help
files and find the areas I needed to get to to finally
make it to level 2.
This is a difficult mud from what I saw, but it looks
to be great fun once you get the hang of it, and it has
some wonderfully implemented ideas. Definately a thumbs
up.
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