[virthe]

The OOC channels on AL are policed rather strictly, we also frown upon people using OOC coordination methods and try to provide as many IC means as we can. Any discussion about IC things, ingredients, locations, information about your character is squashed out by the rest of the community, or in the case of a troll, by an admin. We also don't provide an OOC command, so listening to OOC chatter is an opt-in feature.

[Angie]

God Wars II

1. THEME : dark fantasy, supernatural beings fighting for supremacy at the dawn of the ages

2. FOCUS OF THE MUD : PK and GoP (goal-oriented play)

3. FEATURES AND QUALITIES :
-- Custom codebase.
-- Roomless world.
-- Manual, action-points based combat system where players control 4 different locations.
-- High level of character customization, through an interconnected system of talents, powers and knowledges.
-- Randomly generated dungeons.
-- Customizable minizones - home planes.
-- Boosts that casual players can benefit from.
-- Semi-randomly generated magic equipment.

4. STATUS : Open beta.

And a question regarding the icons - what dimensions are you looking for? I've noticed the ones you have on the site now are 32x32 pixels, would 50x50 (my avatar here) be too large?

[nass]

1. THEME : Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time

2. FOCUS OF THE MUD : PK within RP setting

3. FEATURES AND QUALITIES :
- 3 sided racewar true to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
- Outstanding and well balanced PK
- Male channelers shunned and hunted by all, coded insanity
- 43 roleplay clans
- 320 meticulously crafted zones true to series
- Large playerbase and community
- 100% free at every point

4. STATUS : Open, at

[cron0s]

Oh noes... the RPI police are on to you...!

[SlothMUD]

SlothMUD

1. THEME : set in an original world, in medieval ages

2. FOCUS OF THE MUD : hack’n’slash, exploring, questing

3. FEATURES AND QUALITIES :
-- Online since January 1991(One of the oldest running Diku Muds)
-- Over 300 zones consisting of 25,000+ hand-crafted rooms and 8,000+ creatures
"The world itself is very large, well-written, and has an air of novelty I haven't seen for a long time." TMC Reviewer Ingrid Vertow
-- Astrological event system(complete solar system simulator with 4 other planets)
-- Unique and well thought out magic system (Seven layers of Strata- Channeling, Shaping, Summoning, Healing, Enhancement, Necromancy)
-- Mob lairs and caches(creatures hide and protect their treasures)
-- MCCP and MXP protocols
-- MUDL - A one of a kind internal programming language that allows Immortals to continually create a dynamic and challenging experience.
-- Home of Wintin

4. STATUS : Open, at

[DonathinFrye]

Clandestine MUD


1. THEME: set in a dark gothic, sci-fi/fantasy world blend

2. FOCUS: religious war(open-ended group vs group PK and RP), exploration/adventure

3. FEATURES:

- 50 Races and 30 classes to pick from, multi-classing available
- 10 religions available, should you decide to join a cause
- Medium-to-Large playerbase
- Intense Group PvP Combat and encouraged RP
- Uncountable Secrets to explore and find within the Original World
- Open since 1997, winner of TMC MUD of the Month and 2004 Festival of MUD Award of Excellence
- Very unique spells & skills that you will not find elsewhere
- Huge variety of mini-games for your amusement
- Advanced Crafts such as Blacksmithing, Spellcrafting, Technocrafts, Animal Calling, Soulwalking
- Very advanced and unique questing system
- Living Weapons that grow along with the player
- Fusion available, allowing two players to combine into one powerful character temporarily

4. STATUS: open at

[Dovolente]

Avendar: the Crucible of Legends

1. THEME:
- medieval fantasy adventure

2. FOCUS:
- exploration, character development and achievement
- epic RP, politics and intrigue
- intense PvP combat

3. FEATURES:
- an expansive, 100% original world
- 25 carefully balanced guild classes which draw upon
830+ unique skills and spells
- 10 races with well-developed cultures and histories
- "House" organizations in constant competition to
possess the 10 Stones of Power
- many scripted quests and periodic staff-run quests
- special features made available at character creation
for players who follow rules and contribute to the RP
environment, including
- hard-core mode (earn x2 xp, but can only die once)
- being born with a special taint/blessing of a deity
- choosing the chaja race
- customizing an heirloom which grows in power with
your character
- small-to-medium playerbase: characters make many friends
(and enemies), but can still influence world events
and won't be lost in the crowd
- tentacles. Lots and lots of tentacles.

4. STATUS:
- open at

[Anitra]

Here is the description of 4 DIMENSIONS, since Molly isn't here to post it herself:

1. THEME :
Time Travel, with a central Travel Agency to facilitate things for the Time Tourists

2. FOCUS OF THE MUD :
Primary: Exploring, Questing and Trading,
Secondary: goal-driven Hack&slash, RP and restricted PK (in that order)

3. FEATURES AND QUALITIES :
- 4 very large and totally original worlds, (200+ zones), well written, with many in-depth factors
- Numerous advanced, script-driven Questing and Trading options built into the zones
- Code and script driven occupations, like mining, farming, gardening, fishing, lumberjacking, goldpanning etc.
- Many unique and original skills and spells
- A rather unique 4-tiered remort system, where you can eventually reach Grand Master of all classes
- Many different options to customize character, prompt, channels and commands
- Various types of vehicles and on-line maps to facilitate travel
- Pets and mounts that are a lot more useful than in the average mud, even customized ones available
- Small to medium, but very dedicated playerbase
- Unique Mud School and Quest Academy as introduction to new players

4. STATUS :
Fully operational since 1997, at

[DonathinFrye]

We still need to fill in the info for more of these MUDs. C'mon Admins.

[DonathinFrye]

I see Isle of the Mists in the Top Ten list currently. I've not noticed this MUD before, strangely. Any idea if it meets our idea of quality and should be added to the list? They seem to have a stable playerbase with a H&S focus and many active staff-run in-game quests.

[Alysira]

1. THEME
Medieval/fantasty

2. FOCUS OF THE MUD
Optional roleplay, optional PK, exploring, hack'n'slash, quests,
character development, politics... Most focuses covered.

3. FEATURES AND QUALITIES

- The original SMAUG MUD running a currently exclusive codebase
- Code constantly being modified/added to
- 13 in-game races, 13 in-game classes including one pk-only class and Barbarians
- Clans, Orders, Guilds, Nations for players to join and associate with other players
- Optional roleplay with player-run Nations
- Optional pkilling with player-run Clans (Immortal aided)
- In-game quests and Immortal-run quests for glory
- "Hero" system awarded to outstanding players each year
- Multiplaying permitted
- Player-composed Newbie Council designed to assist new players with any needs
- Player-composed Symposium council designed to propose player's ideas to the Immortals
- Player-composed PKill Conclave designed to further the "Deadly" side of the game
- Over 150 original, exclusive areas totalling to over 20,000 rooms

4. STATUS
Open since 1995, realms.game.org:4000

Realms of Despair has always been, and will always be 100% free and will never ask for donations.

[Ytrewtsu]

Adventures Unlimited
telnet: tharel.net port 5005
website:

1. Theme: medieval fantasy

2. FOCUS OF THE MUD : Roleplay encouraged/ borderline enforced

3. FEATURES AND QUALITIES :
- Religious system with tracked advancement (highly rp oriented)
- Political system in the main city of Naerlan with monthly elections for Mayor, Sheriff and Deputy Mayor
- Nobility system with customizable manor houses and other benefits.
- Mostly original world with over 80% original rooms built exclusively for the land of Tharel
- Days of Redemption competition every other month between clans for control of the bank taxes.
- Original dream system with over 100 unique dreams.
- Multiple quest systems - automated, soul collecting and mob list quests.
- Regular updates to the codebase.
- Dedicated longterm staff and players

4. STATUS: Open since December 1998, fully functional.
telnet: tharel.net port 5005
website:

[Serene420]

[DonathinFrye]

Serene, while you are free to advertise whichever MUD you wish - please do so in the right place. Icesus sells perks for money and therefor really has no place in this particular thread. Thank you.

[Serene420]

Oh, I apologize, I didn't mean to advertise. I was just saying that altho it does have the organization you can join and get the perks you can get the same perks by a little hard work sometimes too such as typo and bug reports, ideas and area coding if you know how. Of course it takes a bit longer but you are still able to get the same thing for free.

[Anitra]

That still doesn't change the fact that they are selling perks for money, Serene.
And this list was specifically created to promote high quality Muds that don't.

Here are the criteria and the updated list again:

CRITERIA
1. No in game advantages are sold by the Administrators for RL money
2. The mud is fully operational and well established
3. The mud has qualities that distinguish it from the large mass of mostly-stock muds

ESTABLISHED FREE QUALITY MUDS
4 Dimensions - 4dimensions.org:6000 -
Aabahran - 216.136.9.8:1848 -
Abandoned Realms - 204.209.44.8:9000 -
Accursed Lands - 66.249.19.206:8000 -
Adventures Unlimited - tharel.net:5005 -
Arcticmud - mud.arctic.org:2700 -
Armageddon - ginka.armageddon.org:4050 -
Avendar - avendar.com:9999 -
Awakened Worlds - awakenedworlds.net:4000 -
Carrion Fields - carrionfields.com:9999 -
Clandestine - mud.clandestinemud.com:9476 -
Discworld - discworld.atuin.net:23 -
Dimension 2 - asj.mudmagic.com:6666 -
Everwar - everwar.dune.net:4242 -
Harshlands - muddled.harshlands.net:5555 -
Legendmud - legendmud.org:9999 -
Medieval Times - mud.lordtrox.com:8500 -
MUME - mume.pvv.org:23 -
New Worlds - -
Realms of Despair - realms.game.org:4000 -
Resident Evil:Outbreak - tyro.genesismuds.com:5300 - ?
Shadows of Isildur - middle-earth.us:23 -
Shattered Kingdoms - mud.shatteredkingdoms.org:1996 -
Sloth mud - slothmud.org:6101 -
The Dragon's Den - dden.discordia.org:2222 -
The secret of Atlas - atlasmud.com:4445 -
Wheel of Time MUD - 207.234.147.46:2222 -
Unwritten legends - -
Zebedee - -


UPCOMING FREE QUALITY MUDS IN ALPHA OR BETA TESTING
Godwars II - godwars2.com:3000 -
Resident Evil: Reincarnate - zombies.servebeer.com: 8428 - URL?

[DonathinFrye]

Three things about RE: R -

I think Resident Evil: Outbreak is not a MUD any longer, if it ever was.

Due to feeling too restricted by sticking to the Resident Evil world(and since we are still in alpha, and such changes are manageable), we've decided to change the name and theme of our Survival Horror RPG; with George A. Romero's blessings, we're renaming it to "World of the Dead: Survival RPG" or "World of the Dead". Just thought I'd shoot you some updated information - thanks for posting the list again!

The website's still not posted until we release for open-testing, though the server (zombies.servebeer) is still the same.

[DonathinFrye]

Information for .Dimension 2, sorry it took me a while to post this, I'm less directly involved with this specific EdgeE project;


1. THEME: Amalgamation of Final Fantasy, .Hack, and Diablo gameplay

2. FOCUS OF THE MUD: Hack 'n Slash, Mini-games, Popular Gameplay

3. FEATURES AND QUALITIES:

- 100 Levels, with 240 areas comprising monsters, champions, uniques, super uniques, and an End Boss.
-A balanced, classless system with few boundaries.
-All original spells from 8 elemental spheres.
-A unique system for emmerging equipment with over 4 million randomly generated possiblities.
-Face nearly one thousand different monsters, ranging from various elemental spheres and classes.
-Many 'mini-games' and collectible items including monster cards for every single monster in the game.
-Unique AI 'simulated players' called Locales that adventure along side of you. Trade with 'em, group with 'em and even play cards!
-An equipment based system. Equipment can do anything from causing fire elemental damage to leeching life.
-24 different limit breaks and the ability to hack and datadrain mobs make combat anything but boring.

4. STATUS: .Dimension(2003, closed), .Dimension 2(2006, open)
Telnet: asj.mudmagic.com:6666
Website: (Re-opening Soon)

[Crystal]

[Siril]

AVATAR Mud is also free