IRE Asks: How did you discover MUDs?

Word of mouth for me. I needed more things to kill time with, and this has worked the best out of everything!

Like sorta just started playing maaan

somewhere

I saw something about MUDs on Ubuntu forum and looked it up out of sheer curiosity.  Found Topmudsites and Achaea, of course, and its old website.  It looked pretty harmless, but also fascinating.  Spent several days just reading the Mythos and decided that it would be fun to live in this strange world.

...in a college far, far away.  GOPHER led me to NukeWar.  A friend of that MUD led me to Achaea, and voila!

Boyfriend pressured me into playing with him.

But I've been addicted since 2005

Had a friend that discovered it, no idea how, and he told all of his friends.  He didn't stick around long, but I did!

I used to play minecraft a lot, like a LOT. I really loved how the game was quite open world and you could change many things due to the fact that the graphics didn't hold it back much, allowing for much modifications patching and inventions of ones own. I told my friends I like it because of those reasons and they pointed me to dwarf fortress. An amazing game based around building up a fortress using dwarves as workers. You start with some miners, aquire wealth make an army to protect said wealth and in the meantime take advantage of the well designed physics system built into the game, and all based on ACSII text graphics. From there I was amazed by the idea, but the micromanaging of the dwarfs put me off a bit, so I went back to minecraft. I continued however looking for more and more detailed experiences in the gameplay world until one day one of my co-workers mentioned that they used to play MUDs, an amazingly detailed multiplayer game where you could do pretty much anything, people could even wink at you. I was interested, but I didn't have time to really check out the concept much. So time passed and one day, while watching The Big Bang theory one of the main characters was playing a text based adventure game and it reminded me about MUDs and so I did a quick google search played some Avalon, the community was a bit stagnant, one cant do much on their own, and the subscription fee was a bit offputting. But I played it for a bit, the only reason I found out about Achaea specifically was I wanted a client that supported mapping, and it seems no one wrote mapping scripts for Avalon only IRE games as they were referred to. I was curious so I made an account and played a bit, now I love Achaea more than any other game.  The end.

He did show meee

I tried once the text game of 'the hitchhiker guide of the galaxy' that intrigued me. After that it was just a matter of time to look for something more. I ended up in Achaea and I don't think there is something better out there.

I think it was in middle school, looking for RPG games and that sort of thing in the school's computer lab. I was really into the Wheel of Time at that time, so when I found a MUD based on that I started playing it quite a bit. It was very overwhelming, died a lot, little instruction, and had to log off at inns or you'd lose all your progress. Which I remember being incredibly frustrated by. Then, later, I discovered Achaea.

A friend or something

I hate doing stupid ones like this.

Wikipédia ...

Bored in my lunchbreak and remebered them from my youth

game.org on my summer breaks as a kid. Didn't get into IRE until recently though.

I was looking for an online d&d type game that I could play and found the IRE site. That simple.

Told me

from now

its all good

Found out about it from my brother.

I remembered stumbling across a Mud back in the 90s but it was a pay one (Avalon, I think?) I was too young to be able to pay for it but it stuck in my mind, years later I went searching for a free one and ended up on Achaea.

Achaea

I found it through my brother, and I watched him play it as I grew up. Now I'm addicted, nearly.

ad for IRE on a webcomic, myself

I'd recently read a book set in Midkemia, and searched for a game based in the same setting.

of a friend

Aetolia is best

worth a credit

I got it in 2004 I think. Loved it. Been playing off and on since. Always seem to come back.

In other words my already growing addiction to internet games led me to find MUDs. They're like MMOs, except generally better.

my brother recruited me

Terris

I hallucinated while eating paint chips

A show mentioned Achaea years back, and I looked into it. The Screensavers, I think?

its true

Through a friend.

Saw MUDs mentioned on the Ubuntu forum

Nuklearpower.com

Screensavers?

A friend of mine originally introduced me to a MUD called Dark Legacy - it only had about 20 players on in its peak time and after six monthsish the silence started to get to me. I stumbled across Top Mud Sites and gave Achaea a shot purely due to the incredible size of the playerbase and the nexus client (totally suckered in by the pretty UI). Convinced a few Dark Legacy players to follow suit and I went with the Sentinels Guild basically because of its impressive wolf emblem on the guild list. Worked out though!

from a nerd friend hahaha.

I would

Saw it on the Topmudsites

Boat

where'd the new questions go?

As the only girl in a group of really nerdy male friends... it was inevitable.  I started playing MUDs back in the AOL days.

I discovered them after playing MUD-style games on a local BBS back in the day. I originally was there to play Doom and Quake but a game called Swords of Chaos became my and most other user's favorite game. Been hooked on them since, though I didn't play Achaea for about the first 10 years it was out for whatever reason.

Don't you?

Its old though

was playing Legend of the Green Dragon and a friend asked me to try.

also: mangos

You will fear me!

Of Nezerra from Aetolia...hot!

A friend introduced us many many years ago

wizard did it

A wizard did it

I was bored, looking for D&D-ish stuff to do on the internet in my Junior High computer lab.

r GUD

I discovered Aetolia through playing Achaea... and discovered Achaea through a friend... I am new to Aetolia, but really just wanna roleplay a vampire...

My cousin, actually. When I was nine or so, he was trying to get into one. I think it was Achaea, but either way, I was hooked since.

Achaea was my first MUD, I found it on Kongregate.com

tired

thumbs up

From another IRE!

again

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I saw a friend at University playing it. He asked me to join in, I laughed since I bought a brand new Graphics card the week before. He whined until I tried it and I have not looked back since :)

Tech TV a loooong time ago. Thanks, Leo!

from Neopets and gaia..

My friends started playing when I was in 4th grade so I started to pick it up.

Since I'm not one of the cool kids who has friends who play muds to introduce me to muds, I had to find it, interestingly enough through a banner ad. I was sick of WoW and FTP MMOs, and I saw one of IRE's wonderful banner ads advertising for a game with dozens of races, hundreds of classes, a bazillion skills, and the best pvp ever invented. So I gave it a shot, and I've been stuck since.

My husband.

Credits

Forum RPs, did a search, found mudconnector.. mud something.

Through a friend

detention, and someone showed me a magazine about MUDS. From there, history.

Looking for games that my laptop could actually play.  Actually, before that, my older brother played one all the time.  Probably influenced from that in a few ways.

Anymore. I vaguely remember seeing the old IRE site when I was back in high school, played for 3 weeks, and then had finals and forgot all about it though I had a lot of fun with it, it wasn't something that really interested me when I was younger.

Took a look at it again recently and man, it's so much better than I remember, though that's probably me just growing and having different (hopefully more mature?... Nah) interests.

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I was trolled into it. I was on a website asking people what graphics card I should get to play MMORPG they told me I didn't need that because all MMORPGs sucked. Then they told me to play Achaea, which I did.

not the rest

Stumbled onto it to find an alternative to Everquest, which I was too poor to play.

I found out about muds, achaea being the first one, when I was sitting in class years ago playing solitare instead of doing the typing assignment I was suppose to be and a classmate ran over and said "hey make a character in this game" and I never looked back!

I found MUDs back when I was in college...in the late 80s.  Back then the ones I played were hidden on other college's servers, and had to migrate a lot so they'd not be shut down.

I "re-found" them (Achaea) through a forum site I used to belong to.  When I saw the little article on it and saw it was a MUD, I remember thinking "No way!  I thought those died out.".

So glad I was wrong.

It

Found Achaea by following a link on a webcomic site.. might have been Ctrl-Alt-Del, but I can't say for sure.

My older brother introduced me to Achaea about as soon as I could type.

www.crydee.com as an avid fan of the books of Feist I was a big user of the Forums and Mailing list at Crydee.com which had a link to the in development page of Midkemia Online. I have been playing MKO since release.

In 8th grade a decent portion of my primary social group played Achaea, thusly I started to, funny thing is now only I play!

i wanted an involved game that i couldn't find in graphics games

Adelphos of Imperian was a friend of mine for just over a decade when I moved to a different province about thirty six hours worth of a drive away. When he moved to another country, we kept in touch only through MSN (Yes, that's all I had at the time. Ah, the good old days!) and we mentioned that we both had been having trouble writing as of late. It was a hobby we both enjoyed, and he mentioned how role playing games, another hobby we had mutually appreciated, had helped him. I was unfamiliar with text games, but the crativity of LARP and other similar styles had always appealed to me during the years of our closest friendship.

In any case, he started telling me about the world, and being a writer-stilted type myself, I found the idea intriguing. I signed up with Aislygn, and I've never played a damned things different in the five years since!

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When I was thirteen

but this was back in the mid late 90s.  We just started getting home PCs and discussed what games there were to play.

a friend and stuff and free credits

credit!

MSN's Dragonrealms was my first MUD and I found it just poking around for free games to play. It had a 30 day trial and I was hooked. When I couldn't afford to play it anymore I did a google search for free MUDs and found the topmudsites and did like many people do: tried the #1 game first. Unfortunately it was, and sadly still is, Aardwolf (I swear they cheat, there's no way that many people play let along vote regularly over Achaea!). No rp, l33t speak and all, and within the first two days of playing I was molested by some random chick. While the last isn't a horrible thing all on its own, it's not what I was looking for. So, I tried the #2 game which was *dun Dun DUN* Achaea... and life was never the same, heh.

Was hunting around for an online game to kill time with my sister and stumbled upon Achaea. Played that for around 5 years, then bored of it when my friends stopped playing. A few years later, was curious to see what IRE had been up to in my absence, and found myself suddenly addicted to MkO.

...on a crappy computer. Turns out MUDs don't care about your video card.

credit

^

going

mostly for the credits

Stumbled on it 10 years ago when I was searching for another game.

Still and forever

school

Cool stuff

Say something besides "credit". Even if its just how you are feeling today.

I found achaea via a web search for the number 1 mud. Achaea was number 1 at that time. this was something like 10 years ago...I think. 10 years is a lot to ask of my memory.

I came across MKO whilst surfing Raymonds E.Fiests website crydee.com- best moment of my life :)

credit comment

About nine or ten years ago, my best friend at the time told me about Achaea. On and off, I've been loving it ever since, and I've had several different alts.

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in a home far far away. The modem made screechy noises.

About two months ago my friend introduced me to them while I was sick. She knows I like tabletop games, she thought I might like Achaea. She was right ^_^

Credit comment.

When records were vinyl things that you spun in a circle to hear songs, CompuServe was competing against AOL, and you had your own personal collection of floppy disks to boot up your computer so you could connect with a BBS server.....

I had been happily playing tabletop D&D for 15+ years by that point and playing computer games like Warcraft: Orcs vs Humans a few years later, did a lot with the old Yahoo RP group postings (don't think they have those groups anymore) which was pretty exciting since it was like a Choose Your Own Adventure book being written by other people/characters.

Went back to college and a friend knew I was into playing computer games, showed me Imperian. I thought it was really rough trying to read everything and do stuff at the same time. It was like trying drive and read a novel at the same time. Joined the game 4 months after it first started and been addicted ever since. Spent thousands of hours and money on it throughout the years, left for World of Warcraft for a year or so, came back. Some things you just can't substitute like buying generic cheese or purple drink. It may look like the real thing, but it just isn't the same.

Don't go thru tinfoil hats.

Achaea was featured on Tech TV, I believe it was on The Screensavers. Been playing it on and off since then.

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I was interested in learning a scripting language or programmingand someone had recommended MUDs as a fun way to teach yourself the basics and enjoy it. Turned out they were right.

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I was reading an old intro to internet book a decade ago. It said "MUDs are highly addictive" and caution students from joining one. I was an incoming college freshman then. I thought to myself, no way I'm going to be addicted to a text game. 

I'm still here a decade after.

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when I first opened mudlet, achaea old logo got my attention and was the first I tried and the one I got stuck with

I used to play a game called Dransik, and it went down for a reason I forget now. I started searching for a new game and came across Materia Magica. It took me a while to figure out that it didn't have graphics. Many a MUD later, I stumbled across Avalon, Achaea, Imperian and then Lusternia, in that order.

My friend linked it to me in AIM about a billion years ago.  She never played it much, but it got me hooked right off.

My friend suggested it, I was interested. I've been playing RPGs for a good chunk of my life - usually those found on consoles and tabletops. This seemed like a fun alternative.

..Even though combat is complicated as -hell-. :(

I saw MUD mentioned on some forum and got curious.

Once on a trip to ancient tibit, a wizend monk gave me a 300 baud modem...there the adventure started.

I used to be a fan of browser based, games like Imperial Conflict, City Struggle and so on... As time passed I found top web games, Followed a link on there, ended up at a MUD. And loved it so much I found myself on Top Mud Sites... tried Aardwolf... hated it, Ended up in NWA which is stagnant in Content, Then found IRE... Awesomeness!