The Linköping Gaming Hotel

The Linköping Gaming Hotel is going to be a mud that will solve all the problems I've found on muds that I've played. I've only played some lpmuds, so I guess there may be other muds out there that already solve these problems, if so, who cares, it's funnier to code from scratch anyway.

One problem many mudders encounter after making wizard is that they're not in charge, and that it would be much better for the mud if they were. Thus they want to start their own mud, with some changes. Now it's true most muds would be better of with me in charge, but it would be kinda boring to continue with this godhood business. Therefore I intend to make The Linköping Gaming Hotel into an anarchy where everyone may do/create/build anything they like.

But in current MUD servers there's only two levels, mortals or wizards. If you're a wizard you've got so much power that they can cheat and there's no point in letting them play some quest/scenario/whatnot another wizard has created. It would become a pretty boring mud, with no playing, if everyone was to be wizard on such a mud. The revolutionary w driver will solve all this. With it you will be able to be wizard on your own part of the mud, while being a mere mortal on another wizards part.

Being both mortal and wizard on the same time creates new exciting opportunities, not seen on any other mud (that I have visited that is). We could for example make a quest, that you get to change when you solve it. After a few persons has solved and changed it it might be time to solve it again to see what has happened. The possibilities are endless.

Now for some people it might not be enough to have total freedom to do what they want in their area, they might want to cooperate with others, or be part of some team with a supream god or something. A flexible group system will make that possible.

Now is there any problems with this scheme?

Well since there are nothing that forces players to butcher the whole world a number of times in order to get the honor of programming people might feel lost and thus decide not to play this new mud. If so I'll probably decide that hope for the human race is lost, find a nice bomb shelter and await the judgement day playing doom.

So when will it be up?

Dunno. On ice for the moment. Think I'll have to finish w, enklX and the GMP client first. Give me an email if you think the idea sounds good and want me to continue.