Quote from: Spinachcat;857819The Toba eruption was crazy! It's the heart of the  "Human Bottleneck" theory and worth a look for RPG setting ideas too!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

For a while I was going to try to do one based on it, but never quite got the concept to gel.

Quote from: kosmos1214;857792forgive me for asking but i was born about a decade to late so whats a MUD?

Text based MMOs. Long long before the advent of graphical MMOs.

MUDs are games. They have system rules, usually classes, most have quests/missions/whatevers and most have NPCs and MOBs to fight. Mobs being the mobile creatures to combat or interact with.

All the familliar RPG trappings are oft in place. Equipment, skills, magic or equivalents.

There are still quite a few out there. Ine of the best I ever played on was the Shadowrun MUD which translated about all the SR RPG rules into the game.

Popular with sight impaired players too.

The one I mentioned above, the creator plugged the AI into a player character account. Hence why it did not initially register as an AI.

MUD coders have been tinkering with various levels of mob AI for a long time now to get mobs that do more than follow a script.

Quote from: nDervish;857866Tons of them still out there, in large part because, if you have a fixed IP address available, they require basically no additional resources to run.  The only hard part of keeping one alive is getting an active enough player base to make it worthwhile for people to visit.

Do a search for "list of muds" and you'll find plenty of them.  I can't offer any recommendations because it's been about 20 years since I was last actively MUDding.

thanks ill have to peek around and see if i can find a few to try

Quote from: kosmos1214;858571thanks ill have to peek around and see if i can find a few to try

Try Mud Connector. http://www.mudconnect.com/

Quote from: Omega;858580Try Mud Connector. http://www.mudconnect.com/

thanks again

Read the reviews. Usually the more negative reviews the worse the sign. Any mud with "reviews disabled" is probably not a good sign either.

Note that some are not actual MUDs and are purely player run. Those tend to go to hell ASAP in some way. Avoud the PVP only muds too. Those go to hell right out the gate.

Back on the topic of AIs.

Some breakthroughs in MUD code now allow for NPCs that will pick up on ambient conversation in the location and even try to determine if they themselves are being spoken to or not. It can feel more lifelike than the ASK type commands.

Another interesting one was NPCs with a slightly fluid daily routine. Or even chat with other mobs as they go. Coded in conversations of course. But not 100% scripted.

Ever the push to get mobs with more than ELIZA level response routines.

If they can play, I don't care. I already allow any of the players to bring SOs and the like, if they can play, why would I care that the SOs are android or gyneid, respectively?
Well, my group is going to be mocking said player to his or her face, but that's normal for us and people that can't live with it are best advised not to apply.

You mock players for bringing their SOs to a session to play?

That seems a bit... fucked up.

Same goes for if someone brought a AI, mobile or non, with them to play. If it wants to play then why mock that?

Quote from: Omega;858997You mock players for bringing their SOs to a session to play?

That seems a bit... fucked up.

Same goes for if someone brought a AI, mobile or non, with them to play. If it wants to play then why mock that?

No, we welcome the SO and try to make him or her welcome:).
However, we tease people when they do something that gives an opportunity. And "my SO is an android" is a golden opportunity as far as we're concerned;)!
If you wonder why, it's simply because it means you're fucking a high-tech sex doll. Yes, we would consider that funny.
And yes, you can bring it to the table, but we're still going to treat it like your smartphone suddenly asking to play:D!

Quote from: Omega;858929Read the reviews. Usually the more negative reviews the worse the sign. Any mud with "reviews disabled" is probably not a good sign either.

Note that some are not actual MUDs and are purely player run. Those tend to go to hell ASAP in some way. Avoud the PVP only muds too. Those go to hell right out the gate.

Back on the topic of AIs.

Some breakthroughs in MUD code now allow for NPCs that will pick up on ambient conversation in the location and even try to determine if they themselves are being spoken to or not. It can feel more lifelike than the ASK type commands.

Another interesting one was NPCs with a slightly fluid daily routine. Or even chat with other mobs as they go. Coded in conversations of course. But not 100% scripted.

Ever the push to get mobs with more than ELIZA level response routines.

i prefer Dr. Sbaitso

Quote from: AsenRG;859009No, we welcome the SO and try to make him or her welcome:).
However, we tease people when they do something that gives an opportunity. And "my SO is an android" is a golden opportunity as far as we're concerned;)!
If you wonder why, it's simply because it means you're fucking a high-tech sex doll. Yes, we would consider that funny.
And yes, you can bring it to the table, but we're still going to treat it like your smartphone suddenly asking to play:D!

but what if you hurt her feelings ;p