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the_logos · 01-17-2016, 11:12 AM

Over the decades of MUD and MMO development, there have been numerous speculative discussions about setting up multiple game worlds such that it's possible for characters to move between them. Doing so would be extremely tricky for a myriad of reasons, from different database structures to lack of equivalency between items, skills, stats, and everything else that differs between two worlds that aren't clones of each other, such as two different WoW servers/shards.

Though even at Iron Realms we haven't been able to solve those issues, we did implement a system called Character Retirement that allows you to take some of you've spent and earned on a character in one of our five MUDs and apply that to a new character on any of those MUDs. It's proven to be immensely popular so far with our playerbase, as many people had characters they stopped playing over the years, and can roll some of those into a new character with a fresh story arc or just a new character on a new-to-them MUD.

HELP RETIREMENT in any of our MUDs (listed below in my sig) will tell you more.

01-17-2016, 11:12 AM	#1
the_logos Legend Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mill Valley, California Posts: 2,305	Moving characters between MUDs Over the decades of MUD and MMO development, there have been numerous speculative discussions about setting up multiple game worlds such that it's possible for characters to move between them. Doing so would be extremely tricky for a myriad of reasons, from different database structures to lack of equivalency between items, skills, stats, and everything else that differs between two worlds that aren't clones of each other, such as two different WoW servers/shards. Though even at Iron Realms we haven't been able to solve those issues, we did implement a system called Character Retirement that allows you to take some of you've spent and earned on a character in one of our five MUDs and apply that to a new character on any of those MUDs. It's proven to be immensely popular so far with our playerbase, as many people had characters they stopped playing over the years, and can roll some of those into a new character with a fresh story arc or just a new character on a new-to-them MUD. HELP RETIREMENT in any of our MUDs (listed below in my sig) will tell you more.