The Eternal-City is one of the best MUD's ever created, if not the best. It has everything you can wish for: combat skillsets, non-combat skillsets, pickpocketing related skillsets and many more.

Roleplaying is mandatory in this game, meaning that you have to keep your character in a roman-set theme all the time.

You can play mostly anything you wish, but there is no magick involved in this game. All the skillsets provided are of weapons or skills that were actually used in the roman times.

The gameworld is huge, it has well over 30,000 rooms and well descripted ones. The gameworld keeps on improving and getting bigger every year.

The combat system is one of the best to ever be created, it isn't as simple as Achaea's or other games of the like. You can actually aim your attacks and there will be various blocks for different attacks. In this game, you do not have EXP, it is based on SP; skill points. Skills points can be earned throughout a weekly cycle which is restarted every cycle (meaning that you keep any SP made, but that it will be easier to make new SP's at the beginning of the next cycle).

If you are looking for a world where you can submerse yourself into, TEC is for you, since it has great role-playing capacities and many skillsets as well as politics that are well established and written. In this game, your actions can have an impact on various political outcomes. If you get arrested too many times, you may end up having a trial and being penalized.

I've played this game for a very long time and I must admit that I have never seen any other MUD's that could possibly come close to this one.

The author of this game is the one who made Star Chamber, known as the best independent game of 2005.

Come give it a try, it's free for the first month and then you can decide whether or not it is worth paying for this game.