The Players Corner Archive

Oh, it's $20/month, so it's still more than "basic" for GS, but there are no extra fees. You wanna get married, get married. Want altered clothing, visit a weaver and ask her to make you a new cloak with an elf-skin collar ::snickers:: Want a gleaming corcite broadsword engraved with the image of a coiling drake on the pommel, find a weaponsmith and ask him to make you one. GM-run events are twice weekly, no extra cost. Two characters per account, no limit to the number of accounts you have. Balanced skills - no "professions" no "titles" like Legend or High Mucketymuck that you magically acquire just because you turned level whatever.

Serious-minded RPers enquire at www.ke9.com

-Desh
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Personally... Just my own thoughts... I've played 100's of muds and Inferno wasn't really any better then any of them. I don't think it comes close to being anything like Gemstone or any of the other games people have been talking about. I don't mean to trash Inferno in anyway, I tried it, it just wasn't for me.

To each his own.

*Had to fix my typo, still getting used to this "natural" keyboard*

[This message has been edited by Dustin Brookthorn (edited 03-05-2002).] reg

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Originally posted by Dustin Brookthorn:
My only problem with Inferno was paying 20$ a month for a plain MUD when I can play basically the same code/game for free.

Personally... Just my own thoughts... I've played 100's of muds and Inferno wasn't really any better then any of them. I don't think it comes close to being anything like Gemstone or any of the other games people have been talking about. I don't mean to trash Inferno in anyway, I tried it, it just wasn't for me.

To each his own.

*Had to fix my typo, still getting used to this "natural" keyboard*

[This message has been edited by Dustin Brookthorn (edited 03-05-2002).]

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Just to clarify: Inferno isn't a MUD according to the current definitions. It doesn't use MUD code. Also, there is no way you can possibly play the same game/code for free elsewhere, because their code is custom and isn't available anywhere else.

I've also played dozens of free MUDs, and have yet to see anything remotely similar, and so I don't even bother comparing it with the free games.

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PS I'm serious not being sarcastic (one of the draw backs of the internet is no tone of voice and I wanted to make sure no one took it the wrong way,)

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But to address its appearance:

GemStoneIII looks like one of those cheapo MUDs when you play it on telnet. All text games, no matter how wonderful they are, look plain and uninteresting on telnet. Until, of course, you get into them for their merits rather than the appearance on the front end.

Inferno is different from the freebies I've tried (and I've tried dozens). It's much closer to Dragon's Gate and GemStone than it is to any other text game I've seen. Except, in my opinion, based on my personal experiences with both, it's much more in-depth and complex. It's also got less people playing than D-Gate and GSIII. But I consider that to be an asset in a RPG. Your character gets to form much stronger bonds with the community than in a game with many hundreds of people.

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