I have been playing on and off on Anime Planet for quite a while now. My very first experience with the MUD was absolutely great. Even though I was already accustomed to ROM layouts, I got immediate help with changing my race to better suit my class. Oh, and there was a guy who swore and flamed me on my first go for doing the whole 'get all pack' 'wear all' type thing. But, he was immediately punished, considering he was in the newbie room, and I was a 'newbie'. Which showed me good following the rules..skills...umm, the imms are very strict which helps to make it more fun overall.

At the current moment, I find the possibility of things to do is great. There are 6 tiers. The first three are the general ones most ROM's have, but the other three are rather challenging to get, depending on who you are. They are based on luck after all. There are special '4th tier' races and spells. The races, you evolve into, and if you get the top 'evo' of a race you get the spell or skill for that race.

The staff are great and are usually friendly. Always willing to help and take most things in good humour. And if they can't help you they usually try to find someone who can. This is if the often reasonably large amount of experienced players can't help.

There are...three different types of quests, maybe four actually. But there is the standard quest, go get this item, kill this mobile. There are ones where you need to pass on messages, or kill a certain mobile after fulfilling requirements. Some are based on tier and are ones where you are called to do the quest. The quests also are there to get you good equipment. There is also guild equipment which only certain guilds can wear...well obviously, but like mage/cleric type guilds are interchangeable.

Even though I have had my fair share of conflict over my time playing, including one 'I'll never come back even if you paid me.' type scenario, I find myself just hanging out sometime, or mindlessly getting kills, nah, it's not mindless. I find it fun. But there's that and doing quests and talking, or getting platinum, as platinum definately actually has it's uses in Anime Planet. I've been through the introduction and removal of different features, some I've liked, some I haven't...but all in all, my Anime Planet experiences have been good, fun and really...the start of my entire mudding career :p. Well, the fourth mud I tried, but it's only one of two that I'm still playing.