[Delerak]

Originally Posted by locke It's a Merc derivative, though the Merc part of it is rather small now, many years later. It's merely "The Isles" and the server "NiMUD" -- this has been the case since 1994, after "The Isles OLC" was released. I don't think it needs to move in the DMFT and if you wanted to trace lineage it's more or less something like: Diku->Merc + LP + MUSH + Circle It is largely rewritten. It is many times larger and more complex and possesses many underlying feature changes which set it apart from just being a Merc derivative. The game is, like M/D, loosely based on TSR products, with some Palladium Books ideas thrown in, an original world, totally original in-game statistics, and many features originally written by me but based on features from ZebestaMUD, DuneMUSH, LPmud, Merc, Diku, Circle and I bet some other variants. When I say "originally written by me" I mean that I wrote original source code that deployed functionality similar to those aforementioned software packages, some of which were never released publicly.

In your resume you put English (Mastery). Come on dude, you're using comma splices all over the place. Where's the semicolon?

[Samson]

It's the Medthievia defense!

[prof1515]

Originally Posted by Delerak In your resume you put English (Mastery). Come on dude, you're using comma splices all over the place. Where's the semicolon?

Careful, he invented English by completely rewriting the language and now you have to put a disclaimer on any sentence you write using it. He also invented the comma splice and the semicolon and hasn't gotten the 2.1836% royalties he was promised.

[Delerak]

Originally Posted by prof1515 Careful, he invented English by completely rewriting the language and now you have to put a disclaimer on any sentence you write using it. He also invented the comma splice and the semicolon and hasn't gotten the 2.1836% royalties he was promised.

I'm being honest though. All quips aside. I don't care if the guy is a genius, I just think if you list yourself as having Mastery over something you should be able to.. well master it. I consider myself intermediate with English, and have only taken one college course on it.