I am having difficulty finding another mud to play on. My current one is currently in a rut, but I cannot find anything better.

The top ones on the site either have RP (ugh), either too much ansi colour or too little, or most aggravating of all, require you to type out the name of the mob in full.

I'd prefer a smaug type mud(apart from Realms of despair)  with a decent playerbase, or perhaps a pure pk mud.

Any suggestions?

You might check us out, I'll be honest we just went to no pkill on a trial basis due to a lack of players using the pkill command. However at the end of a month, we are going to re-evaluate where we are at. We are primarily hack n slash, with lots of quests, some color, we hope that its logically used, and you don't have to type out the mob name in full. Beware having the game confuse it for the title of antoher mob though, and be sure to use the consider command. We are smaug based. I encourage you to check us out.
Escape from Destiny is our name, let me know what you think.
Hope to see you on,
Myra

Escape.wolfpaw.net 2020

You can also try Medieval Times at . Connect to mud.lordtrox.com: 8500

Perished Lands might be what your looking for...

The Jungle!

Well, it's got a lot of ANSI color, but its somehow pleasing and unpainful to the eye. ROM, not SMAUG, and no typing full mob names...

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currently rp is not needed or encouraged, cuz we are in a beta stage
so we are hack and slash atm

I THINK I emailed you from here, but I was just learning how this board works.

You might want to check out Overdrive:

overdrive.concentric.net 5195

It's not PURE H&S (i.e. there are a lot of quests and mini-quests), but the combat is pretty complex and descriptive.

It's also pretty newbie friendly. We just installed a newbie academy that pretty much tells you all need to know to get started.