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I'll take time to post a proper reply later, but for now I think this speaks volumes.
~~, so I'm not sure what I can do about that.
I have yet to change the blurb, mainly because I am a shite writer, but I am trying to come up with somethin that (a) mentions the history of the game some (b) has a bit of mystery to it that makes people want to at least TRY the damn thing and © point out a FEW of the features in passing (NOT in bullet point form like madcow/whisp had it). Basically written with both some RP (this is the history of our world, and this is what has been going on), and a some of its features (this is what you can DO here that you can't do on other MUDs). The
former will require me drawing on the history Areo and Hrithma have been working so hard on.
As soon as I get something that is remotely good, I will put it up there. Playing around with those ideas now instead of studying my electrochemistry.
I wasn't sure what to do about "number of players online". For now I just went ahead and put "under 10" since it's about right, although during globals and things we have actually pushed the 10-24 limit. I think in this case honesty is our best policy, because if someone logs in and expects to find 10-24 players but finds 1 or 2 they may be miffed at our lying and not even give it a shot.
I attempted to contact the webmaster of topmudsites.com to inherit our account there, but got a bounce. I will keep digging around trying to contact them, as well as getting something up on Mudworld and Mudmagic. Also considering (next semester) buying the premium adspace option (I believe its 250$ for 7 months) - not extremely pricey, but before I do this, I would want to redesign the newbie area.
More updates (and a better MUD blurb) posted here soon.
Update: changed the admin contact address to "syn@sentiencemud.net" since I talked to Jonastio and he corrected the problems with it.
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Update: since webmaster@topmudsites.com keeps bouncing, I attempted to post a topic there. Apparently you have to wait a few days before your forum account is validated, so I'm doing that while trying to write a decent description.
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Maybe you might consider having a small competition among the player/immbase to see who can come up with the best description, according to criteria that you set?
Vizz.
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~~@Vizzini:~~
> Maybe you might consider having a small competition among the player/immbase to see who can come up with the best description, according to criteria that you set?
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> Vizz.
That's not a bad idea. My main problem with writing the blurb right now is that all of the big changes we're bringing in will shift the perspective of the game a fair bit from what it used to be. Trying to write something decent enough to where we won't have to rewrite it too much later 8)
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~~@Vizzini:~~
> Maybe you might consider having a small competition among the player/immbase to see who can come up with the best description, according to criteria that you set?
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> Vizz.
I wrote a news about a little contest which I'll run for a month and a half or so, and post when they finish moving the server. I've promised some special prizes which I will code, especially if anyone comes up with anything decent. 8)
Hopefully we'll get something out of it. Won't hurt to try.
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Update on TopMudSites:
~~@Topmudsites Admin:~~
> Cleaning up my inbox and just noticed this, so sorry for missing it the first time around.
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> Probably the best bet is for me to just remove the MUD from the database and let you create a new user to relist it as best suits your needs.
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> Just let me know if that's ok and I'll take care of it.
Told him I'd let the current owner know so we could re-add it when it was taken out.
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That sounds great. I've got a few submissions for the blurb contest, that have given me some ideas. They aren't perfect but not a bad starting point. Is he just waiting for me to send him an e-mail? Or has sentience been removed from there already? I'll get on this asap as next week is spring break (i.e. mad time off) for me.
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Told him to go ahead, so waiting on that now.
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Hey guys,
Well a bit of an update on this – I actually got six or so entries for the blurb contest, not many but more than I expected. Some are actually half decent and they're all probably better than I'd be able to write. I'll pick the best one of the lot and put it up on our mudconnector/topmudsites listing, as well as http://www.sentiencemud.net as our site address.
By the way, this is a question for Areo, but did you ever hear any word from that Topmudsites guy? I think you're the only one out of both of us that managed to get a hold of him. I'd rather not let this drop since TMS is a fairly often visited database.
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Our topmudsites entry from about 2000 was removed. We can put what we wish there now.
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~~@Areo:~~
> Our topmudsites entry from about 2000 was removed. We can put what we wish there now.
SUCCESS!!!
Areo, you will now my right hand man in executing the armies of incompetent webmasters. 8)
