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- -=[ MyMUD 2.0 ]=-
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- Welcome to MyMUD 2.0!
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- MyMUD is a multiuser adventure game for LAN networks. In MyMUD you can
- create your own environments, every kind of environment, and share your
- world with others. The goal of MyMUD is social interaction, this unlike
- other MUDs which are battle or chat orientated. There is a kill command
- in MyMUD, but noone ever realy dies. On the other side, there are
- endless ways of interacting with the environment and other players.
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- MyMUD uses record- and filelocking to keep track of the different users
- and it uses semaforefiles to communicatie between the different
- players. MyMUD is diskbased which implies that the size of your worlds
- is only limited by the size of your harddisk. The number of players is
- limited by the gamedriver itself to 255.
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- MyMUD basics.
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- In MyMUD there are five kinds of users. There are guest users, players,
- builders, wizards and one god.
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- God is the creator of the game and the owner of the system. Gods can
- shutdown the game and due to this they have the biggest power. There
- are a few other things that only the god can do. Usual things that
- interact directly with the world outside the MUD.
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- Wizards are very powerfull. There are a few things they cannot do but
- there are a lot of things they CAN do. Actualy, GOD has only 2 or 3
- commands more than the wizards! If you have a problem ask a wizard.
- Wizards can create magic items, change other peoples items and can do
- everything the lower level users can do.
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- Builders can build. Logical. The can build new locations, objects and
- more. The are the people who create the new world. Building is hard
- work. To describe a location in such a way that it is worthwile for
- others to explore or just to enjoy means that not only the environment
- has to be described, but also the exits. You want to be able to do
- things? They have to create the nessecary actions etc. etc.
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- Players are the normal users of the game. They are there just to amuse
- themself. To chatter and to kill some time they wanted to get rit of
- anyhow. The can only use the normal play commands.
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- Guests have very limited powers. The are unknown users and as such they
- are not allowed to do to much.
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- Every player in MyMUD can be male, female or neuter. Every player has a
- name and a password.
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- Making bucks:
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- MyMUD is a very convinient world. You just find money! Yep, realy..
- Other ways of making some bucks are selling objects in shops or
- sacrificing them in a temple.
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- Traveling around:
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- Every normal location has exits. These exits have names. A single exit
- can have more than one name. "Leave House" can be the name of an exit,
- but for convinience the complete name is probably: Exit;Out;Leave;Leave
- House. If you use one of these four frases, the same thing is
- happening. You are leaving the house.
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- To be able to use an exit you have to pass the lock. Most locks are
- unlocked, but it is very good possible that an exit is locked and you
- can only pass if you have a certain item, items or level. It can even
- be randomized.
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- Locks:
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- Every object in the game has a lock. Often it's not used, but it's
- there. For players the lock determins if the user can be robed. For
- objects it determins if you can take the object or not. For exits it
- means if you can pass. On of the more common usages for a lock are to
- make sure that a certain item stays in a certain location. For example,
- you can only pass the door if you don't have the newspaper.
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- Descriptions:
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- Every object in the game has a number of descriptions. These
- descriptions are used for different occations. The DESC description is
- shown whenever someone looks at the object. The FAIL and SUCCESS are
- shown to the user when a lock fails or succeeds. The OFAIL and OSUCCESS
- are show to the other users in the room when a lock fails or succeeds.
- The MAGIC description is used for magic commands and the INFO
- descripion is shown as answer on a @FINGER command. Descriptions can
- contain text, textmacro's and variables. In the MAGIC field you can put
- MyMUD commands and some special MAGIC commands.
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- Textfiles:
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- There are two places where MyMUD tries to find the HELP.MUD, NEWS.MUD
- and WNEWS.MUD files. First MyMUD looks into the directory found on the
- thirt line of the INI file (the TEXTDIR). If the files are not found
- there, MyMUD looks into the home dir. The directory where the EXE file
- is located.
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- Files created by the GOD with @EDITFILE are always created in the TEXTDIR.
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