TMC Reviews: Waterdeep

This theme is based on the concept that Forgotten Realms, and Final Fantasy have crossed over. The mud somewhat adheres to these things although there were many instances in which I saw no resemblence to either. (In one section a mob named "Hollywood Hogan" is standing here waiting for Sting) I did not see the point in this except for humor..and from what I gathered from it, it served no other purpose than just to be there. When I looked at it, it was a very bleak description that really didn't paint much of a visual. On the other hand while some of the mobs are not very descriptive, some of the descriptions written are quite humorous...(When one looks at a mime on there it will read "A mime is a terrible thing to waste") Very heavy usage of clans on the Mud...and some interesting clans to boot. One of which is known as "The Harpers" which is basically a secretive, good aligned clan, whose main goal is to keep the dangers both of and to civilization at bay. This was only one of a few clans which seem interesting, for those interested in the more roleplay intense aspects of the mud. In generalization this is mainly a Fantasy Realm with a bit of new age technology thrown in. Interesting idea, nonetheless.

The atmosphere of the mud was indeed friendly. Any questions I had, both in character and out were answered quite promptly with little or no hostility. One minor thing of note, was on my first attempt at log in while playing I met up with a character that had nothing better to do than to constantly spam me with kisses and hugs, and who followed me around doing these things incessantly. Although I was flattered with their characters apparant undying love for my character, it did grow somewhat annoying. I mentioned multiple times of the problem and got only one other player to help me. The offender then re-logged back on and continued the "loving" assault on my character. I tried a few more times to get help from an Immortal, and met with no success, so I found it best to just quit and come back at a later time. After that point, I had no other such problems.

Interestingly enough, although compromising of alot of stock areas, this world was edited nicely, with some interesting mobs and interesting descriptive changes made to the rooms themselves. There are many places one can go to train, and practice their skills. It is a complete world with many different areas to adventure, most of which are stock, alot of which have been modified, and some appear to be completely new additions. One thing of note, there were very few spelling errors in the descriptions, which shows some time spent on editing, and writing them up.

I feel the mud could use a bit more work on it's help files, as I found no help for "STORY" and "DAMAGE" two of only three or four that I tried that were supposed to be there. Also, when logging on, it will tell you to pick something of a fantasy, or medieval nature, for a name. I saw a "poohmcbear" and a "BuStA" and a "Gwar" which hardly fits into the catagory asked. To require medieval style names, and to say you will enforce it, but to not do so, kinda defeats the purpose. Suggestions would include, having a staging area, for people to wait, to be approved by Imms. Possibly having an e-mail address that a player could send his name suggestion, then upon reading it, an imm could authorize the player for playing, or possibly removing the restriction, and just let people pick what names they would like to use. (Beware of Beavis the Slayer).

Overall a fun place to be with a good size player base. The players are both friendly and helpful, and they have a system, where you can speak to a MA (Mortal Administrator) for immediate help. This takes some burdon off of the imms, and gives better response time for players questions *Bravo on this idea* Should you turn on color you will notice it is very...well...colorful, so if you enjoy color in your text you will not be dissapointed. I believe with a little extra attention payed to the organization end of things, this could ultimately be a wonderful Mud. As it stands, a nice mud, indeed.