The mechanics are okay, honestly the only reason to join the playerbase is the population. Otherwise, the admins and favored players bot all day and talk about it on the ooc channel.. My character was deleted for focus ki/meditate 'botting' though I was at my computer, without talking to me, having a discussion, issuing a warning or anything. Be warned! There's a HUGE CHANCE you'll spend a day, week, month, year on this game grinding your PL and having fun, and then log on one day to see your character deleted because an admin or favored character accused you of something without you being able to defend yourself.

I used to play on this mud many years ago. While the mud had always been great, I decided that I was bored with it and quit some two years back now.

However, as of late I've had a lot of extra time. So on a whim I decided to try and log back on. I was a little surprised to see that the mud was still running with a moderately sized player base. Although my characters were long since deleted due to inactivity, I decided to make a few new ones.

Although I retained a decent amount of information about the mud, I still could not remember everything. Luckily, the current players and staff have been more than helpful. While they are fewer in number now, they still provide more than I could need. The current staff (while minimal) is extremely active, and still seems to be dedicated to making the mud a better place. In addition, the players really seem to be committed to helping each other out (Well, most of them!).

Overall, my return experience here has been extremely positive. I would highly recommend this mud to anyone who shares an interest in DBZ.

When I started playing DBI I wasn't that impressed, but being a fan of Saga I just wanted to play. There were never any players on during my allotted gaming time. This was mostly due to me being European. Although I am not a fan of change, a lot of the changes are for the better. There are many things in DBI that I wished existed in Saga. During this last month I have come to really enjoy DBI and made some friends, most of the people are great. The playerbase started off small but has started growing again, so even with my weird Euro time I still see many people. Good job Imms at DBI and thanks for letting me play.

I've been playing on DBI for quite some time now and I find it to be a good place to play. It has its moments that wear on you for a bit, but I always have a good time, regardless of what goes on. I admit that I tend to take a small break from time to time, but I always come back because I love it there.

DBI is one of the best DBZ MUDs that I have ever played and despite what other people say, we're one of the liveliest MUDs out there since the majority other DBZ MUDs are either dead or not even running anymore. We're still going strong and I'd like to see it continue running for many more years.

As for the admins, they personally don't bother me and I like them all. They do what needs to be done and get it done. I've never had an issue with any of them. I see nothing wrong with what they're doing and I think they're doing a good job, so keep it up, guys.

The fact that new things are still being added makes me happy because there will be more to do later on for newer players and veterans.

Overall, DBI is an enjoyable place to be and I encourage new people to come and play with us.

Let's start by clearing the air about these rumors of 'cheating' or whatever that seem to be floating around periodically. One must consider that Administrators code the mud, and as such, yes some of them might send their morts through an area they have coded and completed a quest in that area, this is something I would do as well. However I have no reason to believe that any one coder has shared information of their areas with any other coders. That being said, while one administrator may have superior knowledge over one area, they would be at the same level as the rest of us for any other quest to be undertaken. Most of these quests are in fact simple to figure out, and simply a pain in the butt as far as getting the drops to happen, involving a lot of camping or farming sometimes, which is to be expected or the quests would be too easy.

It hurts my brain when people say 'oh this is impossible' or 'oh there's no way to figure that out.' I have gone through three quests already and am working on two more, all they took was a little bit of sitting back and reviewing the information presented to me. On occasion I did have to go off and do something else until it dawned on me, and yes on one of them I had to re-watch an episode of the T.V. series to acquire the information needed, but over all I find the questing experience well worth the payout.

Now on to the player base. At worst the guys can be a bit hectic or touchy, but not really without reason (I.E. being pushed into that state). Admittedly I have willingly sparked what I would consider to be a few highly heated debates (most would call them arguments, some might go so far as to say full out fights), with the sole purpose of testing the limits. Sorry guys, just had to know. Now I have a very good understanding of how most would react to certain things, which help because a majority of things that fall into my humor can be somewhat on the edge of acceptable. In all the player base is calm mannered and fairly nice. They do have a dry humor at some times but that is to be expected online.

The Admins... hoo boy here we go. Really the only thing I can say about them is they do what they can to put out the fires while still maintaining some breed of normality in their daily lives. It can be hard with problems ranging from coding fixes to the rest of us just being assholes from time to time in our own little ways. I can honestly say I do not envy them.

I'd give this place a thumbs up overall. It's a fun game with a friendly environment. Just don't expect everything to be handed to you.

For about a year now this mud has been going through a steady decline in players, and in entertainment. When I originally joined this mud, it was by far the most enjoyable place to be. As it progressed, the improvements to both the mud areas and certain aspects (ie mainly RP) made this mud a great place to be. The main issue as of late is that the administration is SORELY lacking. Whereas there used to be a full, involved staff, it has gradually dwindled down into 4 main people, and unfortunately only one of those doesnt talk down and belittle the players. Whats even more unfortunate, is that this one person doesnt happen to be the owner, and holder of all the power of the mud. If you speak out against him, he'll make racist jokes or find a way to insult you then play it off as a joke. Another administrator constantly insults people and 'flexes his powers', by making them quit out or changing their names. And he happens to be the next most 'powerful' admin. The final person was raised from a player to builder status to...whatever they want to consider him. He also likes to insult and quit people, but he claims 'its only friends who can take it.' The 4th administrator has been around from before Ive been there, and hes probably been the nicest person there is. Unfortunately he cant be on all the time. As mentioned before, I like the place. But because of the administrative indifference its become more of a trip through high school where you're bullied or picked on for expressing your opinion, or being of a certain race or such. Even writing a review citing my opinions will most likely get me ridiculed.

For the most part its a very well constructed game, With recent changes to PK it seems to have become more friendly for new players. Newbie areas are quite well built. Most players are quite supportive. Questing varies from very easy and straight forward, to ones even advanced questers still take sometime to figure out.

Equipment in DBI is almost a funny joke. It seems one person can wear hundred items if you can find enough of the proper wear locations and layers. The equipment in DBI has no personal flare. Since none is custom except for by name. It makes it more of just who gets luckier in PKs when both people have exactly the same equipment and race.

The owner, Nice guy. He will log a mortal and PK the piss outta you if you do stuff that isn't a rule violation, but is frowned upon. Ehhh, not so bad really. Rendo makes funny things happen.

Now lets get started on the rest of the staff. RP Admins are all pretty cool. For the most part they keep the place civil. A few of them had come from being very respected players and roleplayers. RP admins have not very much power so abuse is minimal. Luke=Nice guy and i think he builds too.

Rizion=Pretty much keeps to himself and does RP.

Nygmus=Welllll, you just need to meet him for yourself.

Coders. Ha! I've only seen Picard twice in my time here. Rendo will fix small things occasionally.

Builders. Nell=Nice Immortal. Doesn't talk on OOC much. Ryune= A very nice Immortal, is always willing to help or answer questions. Keeps his mortals and work separate. Sometimes he gets confused about which window he is in. Loves Asians.

Borfin=Thinks he can do whatever he wants because he is a Immortal. Watch out for him. Also likes to abuse Immortal powers to make fun of mortals.

Rakam: He isn't so bad. Once you get used to him, his attitude is easily gotten past.

Helpfilers. Novideus=He is gone now, was a crappy helpfiler and a serious PK jerk.

Saeji= The new Helpfiler. Is really good. Makes great helpfiles. If you see one that needs fixing he is on it. Also will answer most questions.

Dragonball infinity is a dragonball mud that has been being polished for years. It originally began right after the fall of the DB Saga mud which took a downfall after some changes that no one seemed to like. Thankfully DBI (dragonball infinity for those who weren't paying attention) came in to keep the ball rolling. DBI started out as basically any clone did (although it's been years now) and has become something A LOT more. It is hardly fair to call it a clone at this point.

Each race on DBI is uniquely done and in line with the DB universe, you won't be finding any megamans or bleach characters here. All characters or able to gain ki by 'focusing' which turns current energy into a larger max, and allows all characters, given enough time, to be able to have as much ki (which is like mana or energy) as they possibly have time for. Some races even get power level gains for meditating. People are even able to spar their own splits, but this is balanced out by their spar timer in which you are able to spar as many times as you want, but only every few minutes. There are 16 unique races here and definitely one that you'll find to your liking, wheter it's the hydians who gain increased damage and gains in the sun or the thought bending kanassians.

Some people dislike the game for the 'slow' power level gains, but really people should understand it's all relative, and there are many players who have made it well into the 100's of trillions. There is no lack of areas to gain in and it just takes a bit of time to get used to your surroundings.

This is also THE place to go if you are looking to RP. The rp in this mud offers rewards for your 'ooc' character as well as your 'in rp' character. The imms have made it so that for all purposes your character has no control over how strong your rp character is, and they do this through a tier system, and while the rp may seem a little hard to get into at first it is definitely well worth it.

To me DBI has become the MUD that continues on from what DBS would have been if it had not screwed up so badly. It has become something much more rewarding and fun, with A LOT more features and is definitely worth checking out for anyone, DB fan or not.

It seems that this mud just doesn't want to become great. They've made it illegal to talk about any sort of information regarding any type of dropped equipment that's rare because they strictly enforce a no-help-on-quests policy that most of the time doesn't involve the item being dropped.

They are NOT NEWBIE FRIENDLY and will call you an idiot for being one. If you decide to play a pkillable player, the characters online will try to kill you whenever they can because they can.

There is also very adult material talked about on every channel. If you want to join a mud that is no fun and where you get insulted for just trying to play, this is the one for you. I spent more than 100 hours, it doesn't EVER get good.

A very well put together mud, with unique systems that define this out of all the other DB muds out there. My favorite is the structured rolePlay system they created after the last player wipe. It has tiers to gauge players against each other, rather than just random vague notions.

There is a mostly fair Player Kill system that evolves. It has a tendency to favor the more experienced players, and is the cause of several disputes over harassment. A bounty system is also in place, where a player can set up a bounty for anyone over a certain power level, and Hardcore characters collect on this by killing the bountied player. One does have the option to buy off the bounty, if a character isn't waiting at a bounty office to kill them. And unfortunately there is always that one person who is strong enough to kill you. There is a timer for this.

Unfortunately the bad side to this mud is the administration. The main force behind the mud, Rendo, is a man who usually is very unwilling to compromise to what his player base wants. I say usually because I have seen him cave in, albeit very unwillingly. He usually chalks the issues up to people whining and complaining however, and lets people do what they want. Rules are changed around on the fly, sometimes without any explanation.

Taken at face value, the changes may seem minor, but stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, its obvious that some changes are made to benefit a certain group of people. I've seen several new players be run off this way, simply because of the lack of support. Some players will sit online all day and have several alts so its possible to pick off enemies no matter what range they are in, and it isn't considered harassment.

Not all of the administration is a failure however. Several admins are just held back for some reason or another, when they could really be used to let the mud shine. A great mud if you are willing to put up with being harassed or don't mind the owner doesn't really care too much about his player base.

I've played Dragonball:Infinity for a long time now, a really long time. I think it's long overdue that I write a review for an awesome mud. So, I'll do so... But I can't gut the flaws and awesome of DB:i without gutting every category of it.

Gaining in DBi Gaining is great, there are so many different ways to gain. You could medgain (Meditation gain) which is quite simply, lazy gains. Split sparring with is sparring with a split form and can be done with any form of split form. Sparring is also, obviously an option along with gravity training and mob killing. There is also the HBTC which increases your gains by quite a bit, allowing you to gain faster but can only be used for 15 minutes every 3 days. One of the best systems I've seen with no gripes about it, although it can get boring if you do it for hours on end, but with so many alternatives... How can you go wrong?

Quests on DBi Are well put together and done in areas. I've seen muds where they do the 'You accept a quest from a questmaster, kill a mob and get QP (Quest points)' but DBi's quest system is based on areas in which you get the quest and follow the story... The problem with some of these is that they can be so vague you could play in the area for a full day and not be able to continue...

RolePlay on DBi I'll start with the begining; A problem that has plagued DBi since I started and before I ever even touched or looked at Roleplay. The bio you need to begin RolePlay will take forever to get authed or even looked at, and if and when it does it may be turned down... Which is very disheartening.

Fairness in RP isn't an issue until you get up to tier2 which is difficult to explain. But in the roleplay system there is a 'DODGE OR DIE!' method of combat which is very unfun. If someone is running around with an ability to generate a ki sword, slash at you with a high tier ability and you dodge it... They tend to complain that you are godmoding.

RP Admins... Are generally very unfair and unfun. You will find yourself quite often in situations with the RP Admins that leave you looking at your screen going 'WTF?' for reasons such as they seem to pull very odd and unfair advantages/abilities for their own NPCs out of places that do not seem to make sense at the time.

From a player stand point, it almost seems like they pull these high end tiers out or unfair technologies out of thin air JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN, no joke, you will often find yourself up against an NPC that is not only 10x stronger then the strongest RPer iRP, but they will randomly pull out technologies that virtually make them invincible.

I admit though, only two of the three RP admins seem to have this... Attitude, one of the head RP admins seems to have a voice of reason and will listen to you and at least ATTEMPT to give you a fun and fair event. I can understand not wanting to NPC a punching bag, but at least make the bite worth getting.

Immortals of DBi Yeah... Rendo, the owner of the mud isn't so bad once you get to know him. But otherwise, he's unfair, he's extremely cruel and doesn't seem to follow his own rules (regarding channels anyway) Rendo has sculpted DBi's rules into that of some of the most unabusable and understandable rules I've seen from any mud. But his 'I'm the Owner, you're a player you don't matter' attitude will leave you asking why the mud is able to be played by mortals at all.

You can come up with a million ideas and they will be shot down rather harshly or not commented on at all, most of the time the shoot downs of ideacrafts are from Rendo himself.

Good Immortals of DBi Picard and Ryune, I don't even need to explain these two. They seem to be another set of reasonable voices amongst the immortals. Ryune is a great enforcer dispite what people say. Picard is a great coder and will seems to always hold an event if enough people are on when he logs in.

Less then good immortals of DBI Luke is a great builder... But seems to go through spells of bad attitudes where just treats everyone like junk. Furthermore it's as if he tries to enforce the mud when I've seen questionable acts that just leave me wonder if he knows the rules at all...

Kairus Remember the RP Admins I complained about, 90% of that comes from this guy. Although, I admit. I got to at least thank him for doing his job some of the time and reading/grading roleplays so people can get their RPP unlike the other two, who VERY rarely seem to.

Rendo Yeah... He's unfair, he's big, he's bad, he owns the mud, and he barely follows his own rules. You can't hate him because he brings you such an awesome mud like DBi, but you'll often want to complain about him directly to his face. Which I've seen him have no trouble just jumping on your ass for complaining about him and making your time on the mud a living hell.

The rest of the immortals are nothing special to note. All in all, DBi, despite it's flaws is the single best mud I have ever played and I will continue playing it until some unfortunate events strike.

I tried to play this mud, they seemed uninterested in new players. They did not greet me, no one was willing to help me. They just were using profane language in gossip channel and being generally immature.

I've played quite a few DBZ related muds, and I'm searching for one that feels like a good home for me. I'm going to go through rating them on a scale of 1-10 as a personal record, but possibly as something to guide other people towards the DBZ muds they will like.

Gaining: 10/10 Gaining powerlevel is about as seamless as you can expect. At some point, it does get a little tedious, but with a fair amount of item drops and more than a couple places to gain at wherever you are in powerlevel, this is about as good as it gets. You don't gain too fast or too slow, either... giving you a sense of accomplishment without feeling like you're crawling at a snail's pace.

EQ/Drops: 10/10 EQ is pretty well done, plays an important part, and isn't too dificult to aquire.

Quests: 7/10 Some quests are unnecessarily tedious, others feel broken, and others expect you to guess so specifically as to what's done next that it's more luck than skill. There are a bunch of good quests, but a few bad ones really bring the quest rating down.

RP: 4/10 RP has potential, but there isn't enough info on races. Bios take days (in some cases nearly a week) to get authed, and if you get denied, it's extremely heart wrenching to know that you have to wait another long period of time before you can begin to RP. Getting denied is far too easy, because you're supposed to start off as a trained fighter, but without any special moves or abilities... yet in the case of some races, it's necessary to start off with one (namely tuffles). Not enough information is given about some races for you to successfully create a bio in one try... which points back to a painfully long waiting time. Some notes on the boards tell players to wait for RPP points to be given for some RPs, which suggests they are either short staffed on RP admins, or need to find RP admins who have more time to devote to their jobs on the mud. The RPs themselves, however, look fairly fun and there are plenty of competent players to RP with. The system for RP is probably one of the best I've ever seen, too.

PK: 7/10 PK is odd in DBI. Some races (Bio Droids and Tuffles) need PKs for abilities and/or powerups. You'll find people selling off PKs of their chars for different things, which is actually kind of cool. However, the less popular or new people are going to have a harder time in PK. The powerlevel loss is about right, so it's not devestating, but you still would prefer not to die. Waiting for players that you can actually kill to get your powerups is pretty annoying, and you really won't be getting any other powerups in the meantime, which creates a pretty bad stall time in a couple races since you're going to have to gain 10 times higher to kill people with the same base powerlevel as you who naturally get powerups. Unless you're popular and get people to lay down their lives for your cause. It's not extremely difficult, but there should be some kind of minor extra powerup to help you out, so you don't have to wait for newbies to get on to pick on them.

Overall: 8/10 The mud has some serious potential. The players are great, and the admins seem pretty cool, too. A little more dedication on the part of some admins would bump this up to a 9/10. Building/Coding takes time, but there really isn't an excuse to lag so bad on the RP stuff. It can really frustrate those who love to RP in DBZ style having to wait so very long to be able to. The owner, or the person I assume is the owner, is probably the coolest owner I've seen. Very active and fair, but with a distinct personality. He seems to mostly stay out of the way and let people play or do their jobs (in the case of admins), but isn't afraid to step in if things get out of hand here or there.

I've been playing this MUD for a while, and it's one of the best I've ever played, if not THE best. It has many different aspects to keep one involved in the game: IE roleplay, questing, gathering items or just straight up gaining.

The admin are usually amicable, unless you don't follow the rules. Anytime someone has a question, there is usually a flock of people to answer them, or provide any help they can.

The quests range from ridiculously easy, to 'I want to tear my hair out and beat whoever made this' hard. And while the quest info rule puts a little hinder on finding stuff out, it also makes you think for yourself instead of relying on someone else for the answers.

Roleplay has been reformatted since I first joined, now ranking the rpers based on their in-rp experiences. Long gone is the shenanigans of overpowered characters from the start just doing what they want. Now everything is in a nice tiered system that makes people earn their abilities.

The races are fairly diverse, where only a few are truly more powerful than the rest. The skill sets and racial traits give a new player many choices upon creation.

Stop in and check it out for yourself though.

I've been an active member of Dragonball Infinity since almost the start. I witnessed a lot of changes over the time I've spent on there. I've tried other DBSaga clone muds, and this one is the one I found the best.

All of the admins are reasonable people. If you break the rules, you get owned, but if you play by the rules, you can make some new mates. The changes since the last pwipe have almost been on a daily basis, constantly refreshing the experience, with some awesome new things being implemented.

I would thoroughly recommend this mud to anyone from the old schooler from Dragonball Saga to someone new who just has an interest in this type thing. Also, if i'm online and anybody needs assistance, don't be afraid to ask.

How did this mud get rated so high when, after multiple days of connection attempts, you still can't connect to it? I came to play after the recommendation of a friend who also plays, and followed the links through Mud Connector. I understand that downtime occurs, and that hosts can shut down unexpectedly, but I have been trying to connect for the better part of 3 or 4 days.

Seems like they might have shut this one down...

DBI is a great mud, with a great set of players and admins alike. Having recently come back to play after an extended vacation, I am reminded of all the reasons why I enjoyed playing here in the first place.

The mud is constantly growing and progressing, there is always something new to check out, a new area to explore with new quests to figure out or an overhauled event mechanic such as space wars or the saiyan invasions.

Balance seems to be more of a priority now than in the past, I see many new changes to racial transformations and attacks, aimed at bringing them in line with others. In the past you would see a majority of players all flocking to one or two races, while now it seems much more diverse and to me that says a lot.

Quests seem to be aimed less at making 'the hardest most frustrating quest ever' and more at making interesting and fun experiences for the players, which is a change that I personally love. But this does not change the fact that the 'quest info' rule, which basically forces you to ignore other players asking for help on a quest, really puts a damper on the sense of community (for me any way). I am the kind of person who really enjoys helping out others, and to me this rule is an artificial roadblock with no real reason to exist. But enough on that.

The roleplaying community on DBI is excellent, as is the system of rewards and the new RP tier system, which allows you to work your way up the RP power ladder. This new system really helps eliminate the 'can he do that?!?!' factor that seemed to crop up all the time in the past, taking huge chunks of time to get settled and really just ruining the continuity of an RP session, among other things.

All in all I really believe this is the best Dragonball mud around, and aside from the one issue with the 'quest info' rule, I can not think of anything about DBI that I do not like.

Well that's about it for this review, I hope if you read this you will stop on by and see how you like it for yourself... You won't regret it :)

I would have loved to have provided a more detailed review of this game, but unfortunately my experience only lasted about 15 minutes before I was kindly asked by an immortal to 'gtfo'. Upon logging in, you see the typical creation screen that would be seen in most any other DBSaga derivative. After creating my character, I was informed that in order to do anything in the game, I would be required to read 66 announcements on the game's announcement board. These announcements contain such informative information such as 'you're on your own for the weekend, I made plans with my wife'.

I realize that a DragonBall MUD is not really designed to be taken all that seriously, but after voicing my distaste with that code-enforced policy, I was asked to, in the offending immortal's words, 'gtfo'.

Perhaps when the immortal staff shows a greater respect toward growing their playerbase, they will propel their MUD to a higher level. As it stands, now, DragonBall Infinity only represents a failed promise, and it will not be able to sustain itself if its implementers take such a perspective toward their playerbase.

From the time I spent there, DBI is full of power hungry immortals that are only nice to the people that suck up to them. Don't come to this mud unless you like being ignored or just like to watch other people make distasteful jokes.

Truly a garbage of a mud in my opinion. They've went down and had player wipes twice since I started. Each time I came back for a friend. Bad decision on my part. Just not worth the time at all.

A mind-numbing grind with a decent playerbase and some interesting areas to go through, DBI is your typical Saga clone with a few twists. When viewing it as such be sure to keep in mind that the basic battle system you see during the first two hours of play or so, is not likely to change much throughout your stay. Even at endgame levels (read: 10trillion powerlevel+, which is the equivalent of 'experience' and measures your character's strength) gameplay remains somewhat stagnant and offers very little variety. Expect PK battles to be extremely short lived and reliant on who gets the first attack in.

The administration is typical of most DBS clones, so don't expect anything new there; immature and unfriendly except to potential new players and even then only for a short time. Short tempered and extremely biased; there have been multiple records of administrators cheating upon their 'morts', or player-characters, doing things such as giving them free experience (powerlevel), extreme pieces of gear, and scouting for information to give them the upper edge. These records even go so far as to include the former owner of the MUD.

Builders are encouraged to continue adding to the area frequently; but even these new additions are stagnant and offer very little 'new' experience to the game. There are only a few mind-teasers or anything relatively interesting aside from 'kill minion kill minion kamehameha' spam for weeks on end, and the developers are very fond of extremely low percentage drops to keep their playerbase interested. If you want anything decent, expect to roll a 100 sided dice once an hour and pray for a 1 to show up - and those are the easy drops.

Burn an hour or two here, then avoid it like the plague.

Gameplay on DB:I is very good. It's an expansive world, many unique races with a great set of race abilities as well as ability and skill lists, including a fully creatable signature attack which is cheaply 'bought' with RP points (given for good roleplaying) -- though, that really is 'the trick' to it.

There's a large variety of mobs to go after, a huge universe to explore, and the RP system is detailed and fantastic.

On the downside, the Immortals seem preoccupied and busy most of the time, and even rather grumpy at times. Some of the players are exceptionally nice and helpful, though there are a few I've run across who seem less than willing to be friendly to a 'n00b' such as myself.

I was big on Dragonball (a little) and DBZ (quite a bit) when I was in high school, but my memory isn't that great. As a result, there are quests for necessary skills that I'm clueless about, as it seems these are expected to be common knowledge.

Additionally, every time I play, there are frequent times when it seems as if the MUD is going through a 'mini-reboot', correcting bugs or changes or whatnot, and is accompanied with a little message about it 'feeling like it's happened before.' This can get irritating in the middle of trying to stay alive, or being focused on a task. If it were me, I'd put these off until the next reboot, but it's not me.

All in all, on a 1-10 scale, I give it: *Gameplay: 7/10 *Friendliness: 4/10 (though this could just be my own unique experience) *Variety/Uniqueness: 9/10 *Addiction Level: 8/10

Bottom line, I recommend giving it a good try.

DragonBall: Infinity sets itself apart from the clones that rose from the ashes of DragonBall Saga quite well. Much respect to the administrators throughout the years that have ensured its survival by throwing original ideas in with pure skill at what they do, as opposed to botched creativity and futile attempts to make lackluster areas and quests as I've experienced on other Saga codebase derivatives.

It's true, that on this MUD you are not given everything you need to flourish right off the bat. You're expected to learn just as well as the others have that have played in the past, much to some player's dismay. It's truly not a travesty to have to actually play a game to get good at it, to experience things for yourself as opposed to getting everything secondhand vicariously through other means. Exploring areas, using your pure logic to solve quests, to find areas to gain are all good aspects of the MUD that are encouraged by not only the players but the staff as well.

The infamous instant transmission quest seems to be a popular one that people seem to complain about. I, myself, have figured this one out on my own, and it's certainly not as tedious as others make it out to be one bit. True, you may have to go through it a couple times and actually THINK to proceed, but that's what it's good for. No sense in having a useless quest that shows everything right there for you, that couldn't in any honest sense be considered a quest at all.

An extensive race selection from the stretches of DragonBall, DragonBall Z, and DragonBall GT are another spectacle of this great MUD. Well-planned ideas and great coding have prevailed throughout their creation, as no other DragonBall MUD I've played comes close to the dynamic ingenuity of the administrators, as in the past I've also worked for possible DBI competition. Along with the races also comes their racial ranks. All races as of the day I'm writing this with the exception of Tuffles and Konatsus have ranks, most coming with an actual function besides the honor of being considered one of your race's best warriors out there.

Player-killing opportunities could also be considered an honorable mention while considering this MUD. You are offered hardcore and softcore as playing abilities when you create your character, not deviating one bit from its DBSaga roots. Hardcores are at a great advantage to softcores in my opinion, with the fact that you can kill any time you want without having to change flags, there are no alignment restrictions on your equipment, and you are barred from most hi score boards, leaving your character in pure ambiguity as to how powerful it might or might not be. Softcores, however, are not totally left behind in the dust. If they choose, they aren't required to playerkill. They also receive more stat points (so I'm told), which are to their great advantage.

Lastly, all game mechanics set aside, the roleplaying sector of the MUD is the most intricate and well-thought out that I have encountered since the day Saga closed its doors.

I recommend this MUD to everyone who has played a DragonBall MUD, as certainly no one else rivals this MUD in playability, fun, and sheer creativity and ingenuity.

As far as DBZ muds go DragonBall: Infinity is by far the most versatile. Good gain system, good Roleplay system and generally helpful people if you are just starting. Rules closely monitored and overall gameplay is enjoyable.

Dragonball infinity is another DBS clone, but it has had a fair amount of work put into it. It has a few features which set it apart form other clones. The first thing DBS fans would notice is there is no maximum ki limit. Skills in DBS were balanced around a focus/ki ratio, the less focus a move required made it cost more ki to balance it out, however since DBI has removed this limit, 95% of all the skills in the game are completely useless, since the strongest move for the lowest focus is always the move you'll use over and over, since the ki needed VERY quickly becomes irrelevant. Also, the ability Ki Heal which used to take ALL of your Ki to heal someone to full can be used 100 times in a row if you have enough ki.

The vast majority of quests in the game (the quest to obtain Instant Transmission comes to mind) are the most horribly designed and coded quests I have ever seen. I do like the attempt to actually add quests for the players to do, but most of them are colossal wastes of time. Androids are required to do multiple quests to obtain their powerup chips, however the quests are buggy and not even worth the hassle to do, but nobody has bothered to fix them yet. Essentially, the quests are a gimmick added to say they have quests in the game.

The game is fun for a while. The gaining formula from DBS was cut in half, so your gains decrease every 1.5x a mobs PL as opposed to every 2x, which in itself isnt a bad thing. The gaining is slower but its the same for everyone, so it just means you dont hit the trillions as quick. The problem with this is, all the old DBS gaining areas STILL have not been updated for this modified formula. This mud stops gaining you PL at 5x a mobs PL, but all the areas still have mobs that increase in increments of 10x, meaning you actually can only use the area for half the gaining you need, which becomes very frustrating. There are several all new areas, however, and if you eventually learn your way around the mud for most PLs you can still compensate for this.

There is a problem with some races, however, since Bio-androids for instance gain half their PL during the fight and the other half upon the death of the opponent (absorbing them through the tail like cell), once you are stronger than the strongest mobs in the game (about 15t-20t are the mobs PLs) you hit a brick wall and can never gain faster. Sparring is typically the way you gain at these PLs which Bio-androids only get half gains from, since they do not kill their opponent. This means that no matter how hard you try, without paying people a substantial amount of gold daily to let you spar them, you will quickly be passed by any other race.

The single biggest problem I have with this mud (is surprisingly not the owner) but the 'quest help' system. The quest help system means that you are NEVER allowed to help anyone with quests. Ever. If someone gets stuck on a quest (which I would find out half the time later was due to a bug anyway) the players and immortals are required by policy to NOT help you and completely ignore you. Not only this, but you are not allowed to tell where ANY item in the game drops, or essentially help players with anything at all. No, I'm not kidding. The only time you can help players is typically with syntax questions like 'how do I train charge L2?'. This system makes the mud extremely difficult to learn, and adds an atmosphere of hostility and indifference that just isn't fun.

I mentioned earlier I did not care for the owner/head immortal of the mud. Here is the reason. Multiple times I have come across bugs in the mud. The first time I was trying to find my way to a certain planet in the spaceships, and could not find the right system. I kept asking where it was and several players, including the owner, Rendo, proceeded to just laugh at me and mock me for being an idiot unable to find something so easy. Well it turns out that the system I was looking for had accidently been deleted from the system list, so there was no way to find it if you didn't already know what it was. I never received an apology, but it was fixed. The second incident I noticed while gaining my bio-android. My gains seemed HIGHER than normal, and in contrast to what most players would do, I reported it to Rendo. Rendo sort of blew me off the first time, so I waited until I had his full attention and said to him 'Your new gains are randomly increasing by up to 300%'. His response was 'Tail stab gains have been increased by 25%. expletive you.' Ask him to show you the logs. You'd laugh at the exchange. So I took his advice and didn't tell him anything from that point on. Eventually I figured how his bug worked (poor coding, essentially) and started using it to gain way too much PL way too fast. I would have felt bad exploiting a bug, if I hadn't already told Rendo multiple times it existed and had him tell me to 'expletive off' for being honest. Once he found out he wasted no time helling me, waiting for me to log on, then banning me. I feel like I should care more, but unfortunately the mud had become stale to me, since I couldn't really gain any more PL until that bug appeared, making the game more interesting for a short amount of time. So I guess I should thank you Rendo. Prevented me from wasting more time on your poorly run mud =)

Like many DBZ Muds this is based on the Saga codebase, which I played many moons ago. If this is likely to put you off, don't let it. The basic mechanics of the two are where the similarities end.

The races seem much more balanced, as do the skills. The Immortals are both friendly and fair. The quests are well written.

But by far the crowning achievement of DBI is its playerbase. Personable and helpful, many go out of their way to help a new starter. And a lot of the most regular players are avid RPers.

What some people may call a quiet MUD, actually allows for greater interaction between players, forming friendships... and friendly rivalries.

The improvements made since Saga are manyfold and the players much less likely to be immature little [Self-Censored].

I have yet to find a better DB Mud, and I will be staying for while. Still unsure, check it out anyway, what's one hour just to see whether you like something that could provide you with months of entertainment.

Gehu - The Goth Namek.

Dragonball Infinity is an overall poor mud with a playerbase that is very good. This is the only thing that makes DBI worth even taking a second look at. If you like player to player interaction, this is the place to be. If you like a game that has any kind of interesting points, don't like to be constantly antagonized by the immortals for no reason, or like quests that are possible to complete, then this is NOT the place for you.

For example, the quest to gain instant transmission is quite literally impossible. No NPC gives you any clue as to how to complete it. You spend practically all week trying to get instant transmission and the only way to complete the quest is to instant message a player who has it outside of the MUD and have them tell you the solution. This requires you to gain friendship with someone who has it and go out of your way to forceably cheat a quest which otherwise can never be completed. Nobody is allowed to tell you inside the 'game' either, thus making IT an impossible feat for anyone willing to be knocked down over and over by useless crap and player-bashing immortals.

Overall I would say don't even think about trying this MUD.

I have been playing Dragonball Infinity for a couple of months now, and I am rather impressed by the involvement of the staff. There is always someone on who can answer questions. The gains are well paced, insuring that you don't become too strong too fast. They have many races and planets. Changes are always occuring, so something new is always popping up. Overall, this is one of the better Dragonball muds i have played.

I felt like putting up a review for DBI.

I'm Picard. For those who don't know me i'm the main coder for DBI. Rendo helps and such, but all the life changing events are driven by me.

Dbi has become such a radically different place since i've touched it. We have a massive skill system in place as well as awesome ships and a lot of areas. More massive things are in the works. We have an automated dragonball system that releases the earth / namek balls.

I'm currently working on redoing the entire clan system to make it all user friendly. Basically my goal in coding is to code so i don't have to code. I rewrote the entire skill system so builders could 'build' skills and i wouldn't have to code them. I still have to code some stuff for skills but NOTHING like i used to. It may seem like a lot of work to redo things etc... But this way its a lot harder for people to break the mud attempting to code.

I was on a temp leave to fix my personal life. Its going great and i'm devoting all my free time to do what will hopefully make dbi last a very long time. I'm sure there are other muds who've done what we are going to do, but we have the userbase and people like what we are currently doing. That will help us gain a larger foothold.

So if you want to help be part of a massively growing and expanding mud, come join dbi. We do take user comments to heart and any bug that is found is squashed immediately.

Get ready to experience a MUD like no other. Dragonball: Infinity is just that - I've played several DBZ muds, but none have been quite as good as this. It's user-friendly, the staff and players are helpful, and it's really a fun environment. Apart from that, there are good items, activities, and quests to keep you entertained for a long while.

There are also many races with several different transformations and techniques that make this a very unique game. Furthermore, it's been going for years and still maintains a large playerbase (usually about 20-30 people online during the day, 5-15 at night), so you know ithas to be good.

Check it out, and look me up or pretty much any of the experienced players in-game for questions on how to get started on the greatest DBZ MUD out there, Dragonball: Infinity.

Well, I have played many DbZ based muds, but this one is the most interesting I have ever played. First of all DBI is very newbie friendly. When I started playing it was a little confusing at first, but with the numerous helpfiles and the willingness of the playerbase to help with any questions you may have it was fairly easy to get into the learn how everything works.

Unlike some dbz muds I have played there is always something going on in the world of DBI. The RP system is one of those things, whether you like RP or not the storylines are always fun to follow or even if you like questing there are numerous quest of all difficulty to explore. If you are not a biggie on RPing or questing, no problem. There are plenty of other things to do on DBI, whether it be sparring/pking with other players, or chatting with the playerbase of DBI(which they have a pretty good pb all of which are very friendly).

What I like the best of DBI is the unique race selection. Every race of DBI has its own personal skills and abilities, as well as a numerous amount of races to choose from. Whether you like to play a Demon, a Tuffle, or even a Hydian. The races are also very balanced having their weaknesses and strengths, so there isn't one PWN ALL race.

So if you're looking for a good DB mud to play come try DBI. I am confident that you will like it, I played another DBZ mud for four years and switched to DBI aftering playing it for a day. You will not be disappointed!