Go have some screaming vengeance on the fools that annoy me?
If any of you have noticed, I haven't been around much. This is partially because the machine I'm on is a p75 and simply running DS near kills the poor thing. It's also because I've been working on my game and a MUD that I was recently hired to rework..
Now, about that MUD. It's great and all. It started out as a Godwars, and still (sorta) is. I've put a lot of thought into balancing the fourteen odd classes, even sat down and did a lot of math to make sure they were balanced correctly, so that it's not just the person with the biggest numbers who wins. Now, as I was playing around about an hour or so ago, it died. I try to log into the shell so I can upload some more recent changes, and get it back up again.. and notice that the guy in charge has failed to pay the host.
This doesn't make me happy. So, there's my question.. am I allowed to go tear him limb from limb? Or do I just sit here, hoping that he'll pay the host and get it running again?
Either way, I still hope that he gets given a senuous rubdown with baby oil by naked ninety year old hermaphrodites. Who then set the oil on fire. And smother the flames with a lemon juice/salt mix. And repeat the process until he is really, really sorry.
--Tarmas.
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 Mar 1 2002, 9:51 pm
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Mar 1 2002, 9:54 pm
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Spuzzum
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Hmm... I'll let you exercise your own opinion in this situation. You seem to be more creative than I am. =)
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Nah, just steal the ideas and give them to someone else.
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Tarmas wrote:
This doesn't make me happy. So, there's my question.. am I allowed to go tear him limb from limb? Or do I just sit here, hoping that he'll pay the host and get it running again? Im sorry to hear about the Dystopia. This happens most frequently among the MUDding community, and out of the some odd 40 MUD's I've coded on, 40 of those have gone down because the owner refused to pay the bill. He/she simply lost interest after a few weeks and never payed. The last person I coded for went to jail for 5 months, then came back and demanded to know why the MUD wasn't up... Anyways. Knock yourself out bud, and learn from your mistakes. Host your own MUD if you want to keep it up for more than a month. Especially a Godwars, where I have yet to see a single uncorrupt immortal bar 3 people and myself(And this is out of all the MUDs I have played as well. Which makes it 3/600ish) Alathon | |
Hm my question to you is.. Why don't you do your own MUD and pay for your own Host, thus having control over and no one else to blame but yourself, if things don't get done!
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As long as he pays you, let him have all the down time he likes. :P If he doesn't pay you...
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Alathon wrote:
? The last person I coded for went to jail for 5 months, then came back and demanded to know why the MUD wasn't up... Better than another guy I worked for on a MUSH. I poured everything I had for six months into an incredible space system.. it had it all. Organic ships, real good enemy ship AI, over one hundred and fifty styles of weaponry.. players had complete control over what ship they got. There were about three hundred parts for about fifteen systems before it went. Then there was the fact that two weeks after it went up (one week after he hired me) he went off on military duty without telling us. Me, as a coder, never read any of the mail the shell got. One of those mails was the one that said "reply to this if you don't want your account rm'd because we're moving the server" So.. er.. guess what happened. Especially a Godwars, where I have yet to see a single uncorrupt immortal bar 3 people and myself(And this is out of all the MUDs I have played as well. Which makes it 3/600ish) This is the thing. We all had good dreams for the game, including the owner. If we saw any of our newly-made immortals (players who we thought could handle the job) cheating or abusing their abilities, we fired'em. (Three heads had rolled before it went down) Same went for players. We'd deleted two already for abusing something given by corrupt imms, and bug abuse.. We were -trying- to turn a Godwars into something pretty cool. The owner hadn't lost interest yet.. in fact, I talked to him the day before it went down about the future of the MUD. That's why I wanna hurt him. --Tarmas. | |
Tarmas wrote:
This is the thing. We all had good dreams for the game, including the owner. If we saw any of our newly-made immortals (players who we thought could handle the job) cheating or abusing their abilities, we fired'em. (Three heads had rolled before it went down) Same went for players. We'd deleted two already for abusing something given by corrupt imms, and bug abuse.. Im sorry to hear that. Godwars has a curse over it. I have never seen a single successful godwars, except for Vampire Wars(By successful I mean something that held the interest of a large amount of people, for a relatively long amount of time. Vampire Wars is still going strong, and gets over 50 new players every single day. I think itø's been running 5 years now, and apparently a bunch of Vampire Wars have popped up. Guess someone leaked the code), and mayby Forgotten Dreams or Realms(Cirin owned it) Alathon | |
I understand your frustration with the MUD owner, but that's still no reason to contribute to the air of societal hostility already felt by the intersexed. :P
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