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Old 02-04-2010, 05:45 PM   #12
Orrin
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Re: Needing direction on starting a MUD

Open source doesn't necessarily equate to free (as in beer) and to some extent you will get what you pay for. I've played around with both SmartFox and Darkstar and IMO SmartFox is far far easier to use. Smartfox also has plenty of good documentation, examples, tutorials, and an active forum where the developer answers questions.

But honestly, both are probably more than you need for your average mud. PDS in particular was designed to meet the challenges of supporting thousands of concurrent users and I doubt that's a problem you'll need to solve.
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