News Archive for 2000

December 20, 2000: A NEW VERSION of MUD, 4E(40), has just been installed. If you encounter any bugs or oddities, please don't hesitate to report them. Thank you!

December 18, 2000: ANNOUNCEMENTS CAN BE CONFUSING. The easy part is congratulations to Ladytessa, our November Player Of The Month! The strange part is that Benny achieved both Death Of The Month and he attained wizdom. Must have been wishful thinking on the part of the wizzes who voted. Errr, congratulations and condolences to Benny!

November 14, 2000: OCTOBER'S PLAYER OF THE MONTH is Garfinkel: Congratulations! And the usual condolences to Ninja, who earned the Death Of The Month title.

October 15, 2000: HAWUMPH THE WIZARD asked me to post this reminder: every Tuesday at 9PM GMT (That'd be 5PM MUD time while daylight savings time is in effect) there's a Mobile Bash, held at this time primarly for the convenience of UK players. Hawumph volunteered to be here this Tuesday (the 17th, that is) to provide immortal assistance. For further details, please read message 2145 in the Bulletin Board (just type BB at the main Option prompt here.)

October 11, 2000: NOTWITHSTANDING ANY RUMOURS TO THE CONTRARY, we still have players (not that we couldn't use more!) and hence, we still have a Player Of The Month. For the month of September, this honour goes to Argle. Congratulations!
And yes, players still know how to die. At least Roland does, who has earned the title Death Of The Month for September. Congra... I mean, condolences!

September 8, 2000: CONGRATULATIONS TO MERLINSDAD, our August POTM, Player Of The Month! And condolences to Benny, the August DOTM (Death Of The Month).

September 6, 2000: TO ALL GUESTS WHO TRIED AND FAILED TO SIGN UP FOR A TRIAL ACCOUNT: the sign-up facility is now fixed and (supposedly) works fine again. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

August 22, 2000: IT'S OFFICIAL, WE HAVE A NEW WIZ! Having attained 204800 and the requisite tasks, Forestlord the mage reached level 11. A quick name change later and Raistlin the wizard joined the ranks of mud2.com immortals. Congratulations Raistlin! - Tethys

July 23, 2000: NEW SERVER, NEW VERSION. It took many more hours than I expected, but the game is finally on its new, permanent (I hope) server. Needless to say, this complex switchover is likely to have caused some problems, hopefully nothing major. If you encounter anything unusual, please don't hesitate to report it!

June 9, 2000: BEING THE SHY TYPE VIKTOR wouldn't blow his own horn so I will. Take a look at http://www.gamers.com/270687 for a nice article on Viktors recent port of THE original MUD to NT. - Tethys

June 9, 2000: PROOF YOU CANT KEEP A GOOD MAGE DOWN. Oberon is now Oberon the wizard, as the game is wont to say when the requisite tasks and points are achieved
to make level 11. Congratulations Oberon, welcome to immortality! - Tethys

June 5, 2000: I KNOW IT'S TERRIBLY LATE, but the votes are in for April: Marmite is a winner of both the Player of the Month title (in tie with Footloose) and the Death of the Month award. Congratulations! And now I am off to beat some wizzes so that they vote more quickly this month...

April 17, 2000: CONGRATULATIONS to Dimmy, our March Player of the Month! And condolences to... Mistress the ex(?)-witch, our March DOTM...

April 11, 2000: Some of you have already seen, from Pugsley's post on the bulletin board, that one of our players tragically passed away last night.
I think I can speak for all mud2.com players to say we are shocked and saddened that Huxley won't be back.
I for one counted him among my friends here. We will miss you Hux. - Tet. (sadly)

April 10, 2000: A NEW MUD CONNECTOR site at http://topmudsites.cjb.net/ lets you vote for your favorite MUD game. To vote for MUD2, please go to our LINKS page at http://www.mud2.com/links.htm and click that nice little VOTE button that appears about two thirds of the way down. Let's see if it helps us get a few new players...

March 23, 2000: THANKS, PUGSLEY, for reminding me: embarrassingly late, but here are the vote results. February's Player Of The Month is Melusine; congratulations! February's Death Of The Month is, hmmm, well, it seems that it's the bee1 that earned the title this time. I wonder... some wizzes also voted for Tethys as POTM. They must have thought that I wouldn't get the votes tallied before April 1 I guess...

March 5, 2000: THE MUD2 SERVER DIED A HORRIBLE DEATH this morning, so we're now running on backup hardware. Since this backup machine always proved itself to be MUCH more reliable than the MUD machine, I'm tempted to leave the game here on a permanent basis, and use the MUD box as a backup box when I bring it back to life. In any case, as you can imagine, moving the system in 'panic mode' is no easy task; if you encounter anything unusual, please let me know as soon as possible!

March 2, 2000: Myself and many other players have had to endure an extraordinary amount of totally unacceptable behavior on the part of some players who all log in from a particular university. On the other hand, it seems many other players from the same site just want to play and enjoy the game like anyone else.
In keeping with our policy of confidentiality I will not identify the site but those of you playing from there know exactly what I am talking about, many of you I have personaly spoken to, others have spoken to Viktor and other wizzes.
I guess peer pressure is a whole lot better than anything I can offer. Do you want your site denied access to mud2.com? - Tethys

February 23, 2000: SO WHAT HAPPENED TO the January Player Of The Month? Nothing, really; it's just that the votes were coming in slow, and then your favourite arch-wiz was even slower counting them. But they're finally in: Congratulations to Bluetooth, the first Y2K POTM! And condolences to Raistlin, whose untimely demise earned him the first DOTM title of the new year.

February 21, 2000: IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT POURS. Congratulations are due to both Blackwood and Antman, welcome to wizdom! - Tethys

January 23, 2000: CONGRATULATIONS TO FURY, the first wiz of the new year. Proof positive that wizdom is Y2K compliant! - Tethys

January 18, 2000: THE LAST PLAYER OF THE MONTH for 1999 is Dybbuk! Congratulations! As for the Death Of The Month, well, we have an interesting situation here: this title was earned by Blackwood the mage despite the fact that Blackwood neglected to die in December. Could it be a case of wishful thinking on behalf of some of our more evil wizzes?

January 14, 2000: ARE YOU A COMPUSERVE USER? If you are, it's time to pay a visit to the MPGAMES forum there. As of two weeks ago, MUD2 has its very own section there, thanks to the forum's ever enthusiastic manager, Nightshift.
As you know, CompuServe until recently was the home of the longest running version of MUD2's predecessor, MUD1, which ran there under the name British Legends. When BL was shut down in November last year, I approached Nightshift and asked her about the possibility of opening a MUD2 section there. I was hoping that not only might we be able to present MUD2 as a desirable alternative to BL to many now homeless players, but also that we might be able to attract new players through this added exposure.
All of you with CompuServe accounts are, of course, encouraged to visit the new section in MPGAMES. (It's section 4, by the way.) Others are also welcome to visit as guests; you will not be able to post any messages, but you will be able to follow discussions or download files from there. (If the news are to be believed, this, along with all other CompuServe forum areas, will become completely free later this year.) You can access MPGAMES via the Internet through the following URL: http://go.compuserve.com/MPGAMES.

January 14, 2000: UUNET CANADA, our service provider, will perform scheduled maintenance here in the Ottawa area on January 20, between 03:00 and 07:00 EST (that is, MUD time.) They are warning us that during this time period, interruptions of service can be expected. Well, hey, at least this time around we got the notice in time!