I've only played this game a couple of times, but it doesn't take long to understand that it provides a far more advanced combat system than the standard MUD fare. More than anything, it plays out like a text equivalent of a console street fighting game. You have a certain number of actions available for each hand, your head, and your feet. Depending upon your character's fighting style, particular combinations of these actions perform more advanced attacks and maneuvers.

It's a lot to take in at first, but after spending a little bit of time with it, you can do some pretty wild things. I've only experienced a small portion of it, but the sheer number of different options in combat are staggering.

From what I've seen, the Staff and other players seem quite friendly and patient to a new player. It makes absolutely no sense to me why there are so few players in this game while hordes of people get involved in the same old back and forth, near optionless combat found nearly everywhere else. It has to be because they just don't know that something like this is out there. (I didn't before being pointed to it, myself.) If you are looking to play with an engaging fighting system, this has to be what you want.