Suggestions for the Future (Hopes)

[Dream Star Rising]

Yeah Bahati for being the voice of reason, in a thread.

Can't we all just play nice and start over from scratch.. perhaps a new theme... not connected to an yof the TLK movies.. in fact likes start 1000 years after any of the movies!

Umm... just trying to generate ideas, and help people feel less icky. Or better yet, I have a few ideas that might actually make a nice game... if anyone wants to help out. (I've got ideas but no experience other than playing on MU*s)

If anyone wishes to talk to me about such, PM me, or e-mail me.. or IM me, it's all listed in my profile.

[Rynoah]

Mneh, I dunno. If you're gonna do a MUCK, I'd say do something that is not currently being done. I think African themes of any sort are covered by Sunrise, so another African MUCK would be kinda redundant. Maybe ask around for what sort of MUCKs people would like to see. That way, you can cater to a demand and have a playerbase as a result.

[Bahati]

What Rynoah said. There's always Sunrise for African animals - and Meadows for North American animals.

There's supposed to be an Asian-themed wildlife MUCK opening soon, too. And IndiaMUCK is supposedly reopening, but I haven't heard anything about that one for awhile.

EDIT: You should talk to Yaro, now that I think about it. His game has a TLK-zone.

[Dream Star Rising]

Well it wouldn't be a MUCK, I was thinking perhaps MUSH or MUX, and now that I'm a little more rested it'd probably a Magic +sci-fi (i.e Magic is contained within people but is expressed through 'Intellegent' Items.)

[Rynoah]

Having never played on a MUX or a MUSH, I don't know the differences between. XD But still, sounds pretty interesting. Flesh it out more and see where it goes.

[Dream Star Rising]

I would, but I don't know anything about building or anything like that... so I'd be stuck at a loss on how to make things run. *sigh* it'd be such a good game I think groups of 'magical' teams vivying for 'power' in an academy/ world enviroment or something.. (erm maybe not that)

[Yaro]

Yes. I do have a TLK-Zone, and it has been suggested I launch a second MUCK that is TLK based. I'm not really crazy about Sunrise. I'm not sure if I'd want to let them be the only African Wildlife-based MUCK. It is in the works, at any rate. If me and my staff decide it is worth the effort, we may have something more than a tiny... 20-room TLK build on a non-themed MUCK.

At any rate, 0-Singularity has been open a week, and I only have one player in my non-staff playerbase. Please join. It has all sorts of different RP themes (Well, five ATM, but it will expand if we have enough players.) and unrestrictive RP in most places. The only rules are that which are established within the zones. Plus we have countless other places for anything-goes RP.

singularity.podzone.net port 1994 The future of this MUCK depends on the players, and we only have one right now OMG!

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The problems I have with Sunrise is how they tend to treat RP over there. They treat it far to seriously. On top of that, Sunrise has had players and even staffers who have been known to cause trouble for *this* MUCK. (So I heard.) Including false allegations of sexual harrassment and other things. I have a few smaller reasons, too, like the lack of meerkats and how incredibly carmudgeonly they struck me about things like pose size. (Not the size that counts, dammit, it's how you use it!)

So, I'm looking into my own TLK MUCK project that won't be anything like ER or KaV, nor TLK MUCK or Sunrise, and will have policies against ElseMU* sabeteurs. I liked the idea of a darker, adult tone for TLK. I'd love to use that paradigm. I know that the staff of KaV wished to use that, but because of the failure of ER they hanged it to accomadate players.

I'll say it now, as a headwizard of about 9 months, I'm not looking to accomadate the playerbase of this MUCK. If you want a nice adult RP, either on a potential TLK MUCK or on 0-Singularity, please don't think of it as a 'replacement' ER or KaV, or you will be somewhat dissappointed.

[sumu]

hitoguy said:

Yes. I do have a TLK-Zone, and it has been suggested I launch a second MUCK that is TLK based. I'm not really crazy about Sunrise. I'm not sure if I'd want to let them be the only African Wildlife-based MUCK.

Sunrise isn't the only African-based MUCK. TLKMuck is still alive, as is Flipside with its TLK realm, and there's also an adult (read: sexual, not dark) themed TLK MUCK that I've seen advertised. TLKMuck also has 37 meerkats, according to their findspecies.

My advice, from a headwizard to another, is to not try and break into a field that's already covered by a few other MU*s (to reiterate what Rynoah said), unless those MU*s are dead (and even then, it might be something to consider the myriad of TLK-themed worlds that have been created over the years and never gained a significant playerbase - here). It's what I did with Meadows, and it's a big reason why almost a year later, I've still got an active playerbase.

You may not be happy with the way current things are run, but TLK has been done and done again. Unless you come up with some spectacular new twist on things, and think you can fix the damage that's been done here (because it carries over to other MUCKs if those players take it with them, trust me), you'll only be setting yourself up to be the third installment in the Failed TLK Trilogy.

I don't mean to be a pessimist, only a realist.

[Dream Star Rising]

In a way it's kinda boring to cover territory that's been covered already by such. Hence why I brought up my idea for a Magic-Tech MU* of some sort. Something new and fresh.