[DGD] requesting advice for newbie mud admin

[Noah Gibbs]

  Given your priorities, I would say that the first thing to do is add
something fun to do.  It doesn't have to be combat, though it might be useful
if it were a multiplayer activity.

  To get playtesting you first need people.  To get people, build something
fun.  It doesn't have to be a stereotypical MUD -- in fact, it probably
shouldn't be because it sounds like that's not your focus.   But build
something simple and fun.  A stamp-collecting game, a coin-flipping game, the
ability to bet against other players, a cockroach-racing thing where you try to
beat your own best time...  Anything, really.  And simple is probably better to
start out with.  But you'll want to make something to attract people to the
other services (like chat, and your MUDlib overall) that you want to test.

--- Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds like an interesting read...
> 
> Goals (in order of priority)
> 1.  Expose my mudlib to the prying eyes of the public and let the
> ravages of unpredictable users find holes in my code and generally
> make like a germ and immunize it against crashes with the antibodies
> and T-cells of debugging.
> 2.  Exhibit it and get suggestions for appearance
> 3.  Make a sociable and interesting enough atmosphere to make helping
> with 1 and 2 worth a player's time.
> 
> At the moment, my mudlib's infrastructure (or at least that of the mud
> I'm running on top of it, if ya wanna get picky) is too primitive to
> support much in the line of a rich mudding experience.  I got it to
> where chat channels, in-game speech, tells, and mail won't crash :P
> 
> PS:
> 
> Strangely, the most noteworty part of my mudlib is that I push (and
> twist) the envelope so hard that in the past few months DGD has had an
> odd desire to crash.
> 
> If there we a contest for making DGD dump core the most often, Kotaka
> would win hands down :P.  And I'm not even talking about stack
> overflows.  Maybe this is what the TCP/IP bakeoffs mentioned in the
> rfc's are all about.
> 
> No offense meant to Dworkin, I'm just an adventurous programmer. :)
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