RPG Games: Playing Without Power

Great article. For people with low end android phones, Andromud is also a very good app for connecting to your favorite game.  While it dosennt have the triggers like most others, it gets the job done for bashing and day to day upkeep.  Can' wait for the IRE app toget the bugs out so I can try it. 

I was worried I'd lose my IR :D glad it didn't hit too hard!

I din't lose power here after Irene, but I felt the quake where I work. My boss thought the room rocking back and forth was her blood pressure meds.

Ice storm of 08 sucked, though. No power for 2 1/2 weeks. Never more grateful for a hot shower.

I hope I don't lose power and need to deal with that.

I was in a storm staurday night that knocked out power to the house I was in. I had to go 25 miles to find wi fi, and it was so bad it took 8 miniutes for just my homepage to load up.

Needless to say, I missed out that day.

And dream about Achaea instead

"Hey sis, i know we havn't talked for years but...mind if i use your PC for my MUD?"

Sounds about right for a MUD addict! :)

This is much better advice than curling up into the fetal position and sobbing quietly.

We might be getting a little desperate, but entertaining. haha

My cell phone sucks so I can't do jack with it.

This sux, I ve been looking for ever for a Windows Phone 7(Mango) app to go mudding on.

I guess I could always bring my lap top to a free hot spot. I think the local library has one.

I've had to call my sister several times in the past to login using nexus and then "qq" for me. Luckily she has never minded taking five minutes to assist. Due to using a wireless connection - I usually lose internet during thunderstorms, and of course I'm always in the middle of hunting or doing something else important. The worst "RIP" I've had though was when I was summoned before Miramar's throne, and questioned befor joining her Order. She asked the first question, and I lost my connection for three days. I had to have a friend contact her and explain I was having difficulties. I felt so bad!!!

If I can get on the phone to log in I will. If not then I'll wait it out. 

without power, there won't be any wifi.. Even using a cellphone, it won't be that great..

spent three hours playing on my phone during a road trip last weekend

Hate power outtages

It's kinda sad reading about this kind of thing...it's more about the natural disasters affecting the people you play with than the "need new way to connect to the MUD"...

I also wished my laptop would grant me 8 hours of autonomy.

I certainly have had to use atypical means to connect during outages -- and usually it's to see how the outages are affecting friends! Mostly to see if they're safe, but sometimes also as friendly rivalry to see who can make it back the best.

I have to just got to sleep if my power goes out. :(

Have to admit, I'd only risk logging in without any reflexes if I knew I was logged out somewhere extremely safe.  For those who lead particularly less dangerous lifestyles in their IRE games, however, I can see things like smartphone apps being really useful.

I admit...sometimes I play using the phone app at work....mwahahahaha.

Yet another reason why Dranor is absolutely amazing.

and saving to my phone.

Thanks!

I am on the run a lot and being able to connect from my phone is just amazing. I find the BlowTorch app to be superior to the one IronRealms provides at the moment. The screen estate is better organized (which is very important on such small screens), it responds a little faster, and I can actually scroll up on previously sent commands and resend them. Except for scripting support and a mapper, you have everything you need, just perfect for, well, when you are on the run...

Situations like this really open your eyes to how internet-addicted we are in general as a society. It's funny and strange to think that 15 or 20 years ago most people didn't have the internet at all. What did we do in terms of both entertainment and information? Me personally? I'd probably log on via my Blackberry even though they don't offer the greatest MUD apps. The keyboard is really helpful for quick typing though.

the mobile experience isn't that good actually, 

A solid UPS and a laptop with decent battery life have at the very least allowed me to log out in the case of the power failing while playing.

I like to keep up to date in msgs but thats usually cause my phone messengers die so its a back up for friends. I would never try to "play" while on phone or now, while on vacation though LOL

I have a 3g modem built-in to my laptop. It works, but the latency is hooorrrriiiible. Waiting 3 seconds for a command to go through gets old fast.

Power Shortage during mid-games is just awful. One second you're just killing Spawn happiily and the next, the power goes. When you come back, you've lost a level, your wives divorced you, and your son's been kicked out of his guild.

Err.. Maybe not. But you lose a level anyway. I think we should have shorter timeouts available.

Unfortunately for me, the 3g available where I am is almost non existent during normal weather, even a little wind seems to reduce it to zero.

Sadly if you've been MUDing for too long, your portable computer's battery drains to sod all and going to a wifi hotspot means half an hour's MUDing...

Nice article

I am really interested in seeing how tablets turn out in this context. I have tried the android app, but I really miss having the screen real estate to work with. Something like an iPad though would be really interesting to try. Has anyone spent much time running a MUD on a tablet?

If the power dies, and I want to focus on playing, I tend to think about what I want to do when the power comes back.

We have a huge fire about 5 miles from my house right now, the fire department has us on standby, but if things go bad and we gotta book it, I hope I will be able to stay in touch through it.

I can manaage without power.

Option number three just doens't make that much sense to me...

These are very clever! i suspect I would use loww of power as a break from these games if I felt overloaded from games, plus I need a smart phone :(.

I wouldn't have thought of that.

Give me an iPhone app, so I can login from anywhere.

I'd rather the phone be used to tell my loved ones that I'm ok!

A hotspot that is 4G is great for when the power goes out. I've been using my iSpot for the last year+ and think it's great. That and a laptop with good battery life = complete package for the times when the power dies.

I've realized the convienince of using the website to keep up to date with the goings of the land, but don't really have an andriod or iphone. Oh well, great ideas, and ways to leach off others to keep in touch (and possibly avoid account deletion.) 

in terms of totally no power, ie. not even battery-operated laptops and phones... back to paper-and-dice? 

you can vote for ire on top mud sites from you phone too...new IP...new vote :-)

Very interesting.

I like logging in on my phone sometimes, but it's dangerous territory.

To avoid rpg withdrawal.

My phone's too crappy.

I don't even bother with wireless connection and/or playing on phone. I'm too scared to lose anything to thieves and whatnot.

I have a tablet, but I can't bring myself to use it to MUD.

I'm totally ashamed to admit that I log into my phone..

powah

never tried from phone

I wonder if anyone plays by solar power.

wtb new phone

ire pls

D:

I write during power cuts

i like blowtorch client

don't own a cell.. :'(

fortunately have managed to not be in any areas during the times of any big storms, despite 5 total years in FL. But when the power's out, I'm screwed as far as playing goes, though I can check messages/news on my cell.

Interesting