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I'm pretty sure the mudding world would have been roughly
as well off, if not slightly better off.
Some of these posts seem to betray unawareness that
there are many different types of popular muds...not
just Diku derivatives. Take a look at:
LPMuds and Diku were both born roughly around the same
time, the early 90's. If Diku had never been born, people would
just have used LP more. Or something like it would have
been developed. Nature abhors a vacuum.
It may *seem* like the mud world belonged to Diku
and that it kicked open the doors of popularized
mudding, if Diku is all you knew. The LP world was
just as busy with its own flowering.
If you are unfamiliar with LP, let me assure you there are
many LPmuds out there, and people really do play them.
The classic example is Discworld, which (last I knew) averages
some 40 to 80 players at any given time. Sure, it used to
be nearer to 200, but muds in general have seen this
decline, not just Discworld, and not just LP. And don't make
me trot out Genesis. WTF knows how many players they
average.
To recap, I think there *might* have been fewer muds out
there sans Diku, but overall, it's not clear to me this
would have ben a bad thing.
As to LP being harder to set up and use than Diku, that's
hogwash. Maybe some crappy libs out there are tough,
but the old standards: Lima, Skylib, Dead Souls; are a breeze.
Without Diku, you'd just see a bunch of lame ass
Dragonball muds running Lima, instead of a bunch of lame
ass Dragonball muds running Diku.
-Crat
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