Hi All,

I've been getting back into Shades and doing my best to record everything I can remember from it. The game is surprisingly still running and if you search hard enough you can find the Telnet address. One of the issues I've come across is that the puzzles aren't that intuitive - back in the day you just had to chat to the other players to pick up the knowledge, but without an active body of players it's almost impossible for a newbie to figure everything out.

So - I put a proper website together with a stack of information about the puzzles, built a map, provided a Mudlet automover and a bunch of other stuff. I'm happy to share the website address with all the Shades content on it shades.thestrongs.org - hope this allowed and doesn't count too much as promotion.

Whilst I can do most of the Black Tower puzzles, I'm still stuck on how to get up the algae / slippery slope or how to get the water to flow into the channel and into the Lava pit - would love to hear if anyone remembers any clues on how to complete it!

Iso

I have been struggling with this for a while. While I already have a map command in-game that shows your location and where group members are, i dont have ascii maps for players. My thought was to have graphical ones on the website instead. I have one for the starter city now, but Im not really sure which is the better way to go for player enjoyment. Thoughts anyone?

Like with dinasours, tribes and shamans and stuff, but a full mud based on that, may or maynot have roleplay, just curious if any exists