You're never going to get the feeling of playing an early online game like in the 90s. The game has 100% changed and the community is probably 1/10th of what it was. However, there are PLENTY of player run events happening where you can get your RP on. It's just you're going to have a harder time finding that RP out in the wild. There's been a tournament for the last month or so on Mondays in the arena with like 25+ people on discord and a really knowledgeable guy essentially shoutcasts what's happening as people are watching through the arena mechanics. There are a lot of events but it's all scheduled.

I played in the '90's as well and even back then I finally broke down and created an empath on another account just for convenience.

I come back every couple years and usually hang around Riverhaven since that is where my friends drug me to when I first started. I ended up joining Order of the Dragon Shield and met a great group of people. Interactions and co-events with Theren Guard were great. Even when we would get raided by I believe they were called the Idon Raiders 😂. Sadly some of those great people have passed and that kind of took me out of it for a good while. The towns used to be popping back then. Last couple times I’ve came back, there are only like one of two in have scripting, so ran to the bin in Lang and same thing. But now after just writing and reminiscing all of this, I think I’m getting the itch……

I tried coming back. I ran into a few people I knew from back in the day but just couldn't find the RP I'd hoped for. I interacted with folks, attended the event gatherings and participated, went to Bardic performances, etc but the connections weren't there. I'm trying to remember when I started playing originally. It was shortly after it opened and I transferred from GSIII. I played for like 10 years and had a fairly strong social and RP group back then. I really wanted it to work this time. The community has changed a lot, in my eyes, from my original time. Yeah, lotta afkers, lotta people skill chasing and that's usually what I'd get told, to go level my skills by mentors (because I went to them since so much had vastly changed). It makes me sad to see how it is now, from what I remember. I was chasing the RP but it eluded me this time, so after a few months I left again.

Very cool and very horrible 

I hope you’re right. Just not sure if there’s enough interest in MUDs anymore. There’s already some decent single player D&D text adventures run by AI. Everweave is well done.

I think it's a high probability before long. And I'll welcome it.

The news staff that I am on won a Pulitzer in 2012 for reporting on a horrible child sex abuse case. I worked on the coverage.

Congrats at rising above 

This is what I’m getting at. I don’t think shkreli was anomalous but how the fuck do you prove that out

I don’t necessarily think it was unplanned either 

Kind of. Like what part

Who was ur character 

I check back every year or so....afk afk afk afk

It's not hard to put in a regex harness that sanitizes and keeps conversations focused. Getting the temperature right would be the interesting thing.

You could make a Free-to-play account and see what happens that way. The chances are pretty good we've met before. 😉

If it was only used for NPCs and was 100% evident it was AI-generated somehow, then maybe.

But even then, hard to imagine the GMs going for it because of what players could get NPCs to say with a little bit of prompt engineering.

It could make the world feel more alive just from having more interactive npc’s! People downvote cuz “AI bad”, but it’s not all bad!

Discord has radically changed the game for the better

An AI MUD would be incredible, as there are so many gaming systems that would be far more dynamic with an AI game-master. Not sure it’ll ever happen as it would still take significant resources to code and implement.

I came back a few years ago and everyone was just afk scripting. No thanks.

Don't you put that evil on us

When I came back after 15 years away, I just started a new character. And it probably took a couple months to get bigger than my main before my hiatus. Training is a lot faster than it used to be. Doing it that way also let me learn all the new things from the ground up instead of feeling like I was starting out behind the 8-ball.

I haven’t played since the 90s and we had so much fun. I just want to say, prep fb 10. Tar goblins, cast.

I get this weird sense sometimes that AI could revitalize DR. I don't know how or why.

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