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MUD: Materia Magica

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Wabbit

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Hi, i'm gonna get back into playing MUD again. I want to get back into the one that I used to play and wanted to recommend it to everybody! If you have never played a mud then maybe you can give it a go?

It's FREE! :D


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Materia Magica
Features

Materia Magica's more notable features include:
The Vast Universe of Materia Magica

Endless Realm of Adventure: Materia Magica features a huge, totally original, realistic universe (you won't find it anywhere else) - with over eight million locations to explore, as well as remarkable and numerous means of travel, such as horses and dragons, magic carpets, enchanted brooms, powerful worldgates, strange devices of gnomish design, and much more! With seas, jungles, plains, desert, mountain areas and underground, you have virtually unlimited possibilities for adventure. In addition, Materia Magica's visible compass provides information and direction as to where you can go and what might await you there.

ANSI-based Terrain: We provide ANSI-based, fully colorized, seamless wilderness terrain connecting cities, dungeons, towers, castles, and many other expansive structures (See some Screen Shots to fully appreciate this feature).

Experience-adjusted Wilderness Encounters: Experience many wilderness encounters solely based on your gaming experience - the difficulty of the world grows with your character allowing you to progress at your own pace.
Player-controlled Ships: Our shipwrights offer player-ownable and controllable ships that can be sailed across the wide blue oceans of Alyria. These are real ships, much more than a simple "boat" you carry around in your inventory! Hold your ship's title and travel the world or do battle with your worst enemies. Live the seafaring life you've always dreamed. But - beware of pirates!

More Realistic, Interactive NPCs: The non-player-character (NPC) interactions are sophisticated and elegant. NPCs don't just stand around doing nothing, they continue on with the business of their lives. Players and NPCs interacting with each other take the gaming experience to a new level.
Unique "Mark" System of Exploration: Participate in our original "Mark" system of game exploration to guarantee an Adventurer's knowledge of the game. Go on a quest to gain the Mark of Fire, so you can pass the Hellbent Mountain guards! Gain the Mark of the Traveller by questing! Search for the hermit that will give you the Mark of Force! Marks are given by the Powers for performing certain tasks or reaching certain levels of expertise, and are an exciting way of measuring your progress.

Immense Underground World: There have been a rash of recent earthquakes that have revealed a vast underground world, complete with dangerous, outcast cities, a central sea, mysterious volcanic caverns, and a ferocious whirlpool. The Great Alyrian Underground, as it has become known, provides a thrilling experience for experienced Adventurers with its many tunnels, caverns, and secrets.
 
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Powerful Combat and Magic Systems

Unique Formation-Based Combat: We offer cutting edge formation-based combat. As formation leader, move your team members around to achieve the optimal defense of the weaker characters, while putting your strongest characters up front to take the brunt of the attacks. You may place your magic-users in the back of the form so they can blast the opponents with spells, while you take advantage of your short-range weapon in the front of the form. You can aim at a creature's specific body parts and take advantage of vulnerabilities. Try to blast their arm (or tentacle!) with a magical wand or even parry an opponent's sword, or block his deadly fireball with your shield. You can use the default settings with great ease, or customize your combat settings for more control.
Original Armor Resistance System: We have developed an Armor Resistance (AR) system that reduces damage from attacks based on the stopping power of your clothing and armor, instead of confusing 'armor class' systems that determine whether or not you've been hit (?) taken from commercial RPG systems.

Bardic Song Magic: The Bards of Alyria possess a unique system of song-magic. Imagine having the ability to actually play musical notes in order to cause changes in the physical world around you. The songs are based not by player level but by difficulty and the instrument on which they are played.
Druid Elemental Magic: Druids have the power to call upon the elements in their various forms and combinations, and thus invoke or evoke the primary elemental forces of air, fire, water, and earth, as well as the quasi- and para-elements, for powerful effects.
Player-Driven Economy

Realistic Economic System: Materia Magica has a highly detailed commerce and economic system. Our bank branches charge fees and provide financial stability. The shops restock themselves from a centralized warehouse instead of having items 'magically' appear in their inventory. The supply and demand theory is alive and well here as price decreases and increases are based on item demand and availability.
Live Auctions: Bid on items put up on the auction block by other players, or place your own items up for bid in this intriguing method of trading items through the in-game IMAIL system, with enchanted auction imps powering the process and making sure your item(s) arrive safely at their destination (for a small fee, of course).

Player-Controlled Shops: Journey to the colorful Alyrian Bazaar, where you can lease and run your own in-game shop. Stock it with items, set and adjust prices and "hawking" messages, and enjoy becoming a powerful merchant with this economically-inspired feature of Materia Magica. A whole subculture of Adventuring Merchants has been created, with capitalism as their binding philosophy.


Remarkable Characters, History and Mythology

Adventuring Races Bring the Game to Life: The player races have fully been developed to include a powerful story behind their creation, and each have their own histories and storylines that become richer and more detailed as time progresses. Watch your character come to life and become a part of the daily activity in the game.

Balanced Player Classes: Materia Magica has thirteen different Adventuring classes, all of which are well-developed and balanced. We encourage players to select the classes based on their individual personalities, or go for something totally different for a change of pace - the choice is up to you.
Unique Multiclassing System: We offer a four-tiered multiclassing approach. Feel free to create a character that will be with you for a long time to come allowing you to create bonds with other players from all over the world.
Unique Skill System: Experience a completely unique, complexity-based skill system, utilizing proficiencies and spells to create and provide more intricate gaming environment. No skill levels - you learn the skill when find an appropriate trainer and obtain the right information and understanding to progress in your chosen Adventuring path.

Fully-Realized Theology: An amazing theological system brings you further into the universe of Materia Magica, allowing you to explore the cities and temples of the elemental Powers themselves. In Alyria, the Gods do not walk the land, but are amorphous forces that are called by many names across the different races and societies.
Technologically Advanced Server and Game Support

Support for MSP and MXP Sound Effects: If you're using a client that supports the MXP or MSP sound protocols (such as ZMUD or Portal), you can take advantage of Materia Magica's sound effects support by downloading our free sound packs here and enabling them for use in your client. Hear fireballs explode, worldgates shimmer, and shields block!
Portal MIP and ZMUD MXP Client Enhancements: If you're using the Portal or ZMUD game clients (or any client that supports ZMUD's open specification, MXP, such as MushClient), you can take advantage of special features such as hit point, stamina, and spell point status bars, text enhancement, HTML links, and much more!

Support for MCCP 2 (MUD Client Compression Protocol): If you're on a dialup connection (where every byte counts), and/or if your connection isn't as fast as you would like, Materia Magica's MCCP 2 server support can help! If you have a client that supports MCCP 2 (such as recent versions of ZMUD), it is enabled by default, enabling you to get a faster connection and use less bandwidth.

In-Game and Technical Support: Most importantly, we have friendly technical support savants available for email-based assistance when you are having difficulties. We want your gaming experience to be enjoyable. And within the game, we have trained experienced players to act as Guides. These guides are there to assist both the novice and the more experienced players alike. Adapting to online play is a breeze with our many dedicated Guides waiting to assist.

Active and All-Encompassing Website: Materia Magica's website offers the widest range of resources available to Adventurers, from the basics such as the Annotated Help Files to the Towne Hall Message Boards, designed to spur community interaction. In addition, Materia Magica's website features player-written guides for subjects as varied as first-class PK to information on specific sets of enchanted items. There's also the Alyrian Chronicle, Alyria's voice for the community and a good source of articles and advice from fellow Adventurers.
... And Lots More!
 
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Plentiful, Detailed Quests: Do you need a bit of structure and purpose in your play? Try a quest! Journey into the various towns and seek a quest from one of the Lords. Based on your level and experience, receive a quest to honor the Lord and return to gain a handsome reward. While Materia Magica was the creator and distributor of Vassago's Automated Quest Code, used in hundreds of games all over the world, it has taken that original concept much further and turned it into an even more fun, enjoyable way to participate in the world of Alyria and gain rich rewards.

Integrated Chat Rooms: Need a break? Tired of role-playing? Escape to the Materia Magica Chat rooms, where you can talk with who you want, when you want. With password-protected rooms for secret meetings, you can keep out your enemies and bring your friends closer. You can even relay a chat room through a special custom communication channel so you can play and still chat with your friends at the same time - creating, in effect, your very own chat channel to be used from anywhere in the game! The Materia Magica Chat Rooms are set up to be similar to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) in that you can assign room operators, place bans, kick people from rooms, moderate conversation, etc.

Capture the Flag Arena: Come join the Capture the Flag (CTF) arena for player groups, clan tournaments and other strategic battles! Want to hone and fine tune skills or your combat strategy? Battle in the CTF Arena! Plan a clan-wide activity or a melee with a host of players of different races, classes and experience, or just play a game with whoever wants to join you. Choose to be on the Red Team or the Blue Team, and invent strategies to recover your opponent's flag in this exciting feature of Materia Magica.
Alyrian Chess: Test your brain against some of Alyria's best chess masters and play them in a game of Alyrian Chess, Materia Magica's unique adaptation of the classic game that can be played from anywhere within the game.
Completely Free: This gaming experience is completely free! We exist solely off of non-required contributions from our players, who think that it's the best game around.

This is just a partial list of the many unique things that make Materia Magica one of the leaders in online, text-based, massively-multiplayer gaming. Come join the Materia Magica universe! Click here to get started.

Isnt that great? :D Anybody else played mud? I think Ashlea has.
 
Yeah, I know what just what you mean! :)

That's the only problem that I have with it, really. It just takes up so much of your life. Well, I will try to ration it to just an hour or so a day :D
 
Yeah, it's an online game and it's free!

Sorry if I did not explaine it very well!!! :)

It's a MUD. This stands for Multi. User. Dungeon. Basically, it's a term used to describe a living, breathing interactive world where players can create a character and role play with other player characters.

The interface for the world of mud is text. So there are not graphics to speak of! Although, a lot of people may see that as a downside, I see it as a positive thing. Like a book the world exists in my head! :)

There are many MUDS out there and materia magica is just one of them! It's an easy one to start off with if you have not played mud before.

I think you would like them! They take a bit of getting into because you must learn your way around the game and what commands do what :) But it's well worth the effort!

I posted this over at the game thread. It will give you some links to go to if you are interested!


You can find out more about MUD here What is MUD and mudding? A gude.

To play any mud, you will need a client program. There are many to choose from. Some famous ones like Zmud and Portal you have to pay for. There are many free clients to use. I personally like DDEMUD and you can download it here at DDEMUD

If you wanna try the game I was talking about. You can play it here! Step into the world of Materia Magica

Or if you prefer another mud game then you can try find many here at mud connect

Hope that helps! If you have any more questions then let me know! Just ask :)
 
I'll try it right now 'cause I love playing games! :D :D :D

I know such games. I'm playing "Legend of the Green Dragon" all the time.
 
Well, legend of the green dragon is not really a mud :) Although it's along the same idea, I guess.

MUD is a lot more complicated and bigger. Also, there are no menus. Everything is via a text command. This gives the game a lot more scope and complexity but also makes it harder to get into because you must learn the commands.

Examples: Attack orc, west ( to move west ) cast magic missle, wear sword and so on :) See what I mean now? Sorry, I never explaine thease things very well! :eek:

I'm just going over the command again right now because it's been awhile since I played :) Materia Magica gives you a good learning curve though. Everybody starts off in a novice area of the world. It's a contained place and you cannot leave until you reach 10 lv where you will be teleported to some place in the world. You have access to a newbie guild where you can ask questions!

One of the best things in Materia Magica is the "dream" command. When you are sleeping, you can type dream. Everybody else that is sleeping and has typed dream can talk to you! Also, there are random, strange, and funny dream events!

Give it a go, its fun! :) Any more questions... feel free! Happy to help!
 
Hi :)

You can start here Materia Magica: Getting Started if you want and then work your way though.

Or, to go right to learning the commands and how the game works, you can go here to the Materia Magica: Adventurers Guide

Anyway, I would not worry too much about having to memorize every command. The best way is just to learn a few and pick up the rest as you play! :) Other players will be very helpful! Just ask on the newbie channel and they will tell you what you need to know.

Also, at the start of the game, you are guided though. You will get told many commands as you play and instructed how the game works! When you enter the world, you meet some teachers that intrust you in commands and how things work.

So, although it looks big and complext to learn, it's not as bad as you may think. It's not so hard to pick it up! Even I manage it :D

Any more question? Keep em comming! lol :)

OH, and if you do play... you might even bump into me! :D Just look for somebody crazy lol
 
It think I did not get it right (connection failed) but as this game looks highly complicated I'll put it aside till next week, 'cause I've an exam then. Legend of the Green Dragon was quite addictive!

I'll ask you for advise when I try again. :D :D :D
Thx a lot!
 
Did you download a client? You need to put in the name and also the port number :)

Yeah, it takes a little getting into but well worth it! I would not start before your exams because the problem is not getting into it but once you are in, and if you like it, then it will suck many many many hours of your free time :D

Sure, any time you want to ask questions. Ask away! :)

Oh... and good luck with your exams :)
 
I got the client you told me and when there was already a name and port number (4000) filled in but as I'm in a dormitory there could be problems with the internal firewall. :rolleyes:
 
OH, and forgot one site. If you are interested in finding another mud, this is a good one to use because it has lots of information, mini reviews, and a top 40 of muds. It's called Top Mud Sites which is a very unimaginative name but it's still a good site!
 
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