• LPMUD Name: BatMUD
• Open Since: 14th April, 1990
• FQDN: batmud.jyu.fi or palikka.jyu.fi
• IP Address: 130.234.0.3
• Port Number/s: 2001
• Hours open: Game is closed weekdays during local working hours 08-17 EET (GMT +2)
• Registration Requirements: None
• Administrator/s: batmud@jyu.fi
• Contact Person/s: batmud@jyu.fi
• Driver/Server version: hybrid of local patches, Amylaar, 3.1.2 and ideas from MudOS and CD
• Game/Mudlib version: evolved from 2.4.5 during the last years
• Machine Type: Sun Sparc II
• Machine Memory: 64M
• Machine Disks: Mud has 200M of space
• Machine OS: SunOS 4.1.3
• Typical CPU Load by LPMUD: 1% per player
• Typical Memory Load by LPMUD: At boot 8M, usually reaches 30M in 8 hours
• Typical CPU Load by other users: Usually 0
• Typical Memory Load by other users: Usually 20M
• Disk space free on host machine: 100M for mud
• Disk space used by entire LPMUD: 100M
• Disk space used by documentation: 1M
• Disk space used by driver/server: 8M, includes sources and some other stuff
• Disk space used by game/mudlib: 20M
• Disk space used by wizards only: 40M
• Total number of player characters: Over 7500 after last deletion
• Average number of players online: 60 during summers , about 80 last winter
• Total number of wizard characters: Several hundred, about 50 active
• Average number of wizards online: 5
• Total Number of Quests Available: ~30
• General Information about Quests: You may do these, they are not mandatory.
• Number of Quests Required for Levels: 0
• Number of Quests Required for Wizardhood: 0
• Minimum Experience Required for Wizardhood: Varies
• Other (if any) Requirements for Wizardhood: None
• Player Advancement beyond/instead of Wizardhood: 75 levels, race/guild leadership, having apprentice making own guilds, wishes, castle construction, etc...
• Number/type of available genders: 3, other/male/female
• Number/type of available classes: 16, multiclassing is common
• Number/type of available guilds: 16 wizard made, 84 player made mini guilds
• Number/type of available skills: 373 skills and spells
• Number/type of available races: 33
• Genre/Mood/Theme: Fantasy
• Primary Orientation: Character advancment in various ways (combat, puzzles, events, tasks, helping players, etc..)
• Policy on Player Killing: Legal, not encouraged, mass murderers will be dealt by wizards.
• Policy on Individual Privacy: Wizards may snoop, players have spells allowing them to snoop.
• Policy on Multiple Characters: Legal as long as the characters don't interact
• Policy on Player/Wizard Interactions: Illegal.
• Policy on Wizard Coding/Approval of areas, objects, etc: Wizard codes, arch approves.
• Policy on Individual Castles: Anything is possible.
• Policy on Coding Style: Wizard codes, arch approves.
• Policy on Making Wizard: No frobs, must play.
• Policy on General Rules: Most of them are Posted.
• Policy on Disciplinary Actions: Arch wizards can do what ever they please. This can mean level losses, castle losses, banishment for a certain time, deletion, site closure etc..
• Policy on Retension/Reimbursments: Stuff can be stored over reboots, crash recovery works reasonably well (restores your stuff). No reimbursement usually.
• Policy on "Wimpy": Varies, unconsciousness, some spells affect etc...
• Announcement: If we don't have it a mud doesn't need it.