| Iomene: |
So, how are you today
Gothmog? |
| Gothmog: |
Fine! |
| Iomene: |
Nice to hear.We had an
estonian to visit us here in Stockholm a few days ago. I tried to
call you, but there was no answer! Too bad because he had brought a
bigpack of beer to our delight!
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| Gothmog: |
I met up with Peter later on,
we had beers in Humlegarden!' He called me from The Matrix internet
cafe... :-)' (Where pOthrod works)
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| Iomene: |
Anyway, do you wish to share
with us what characters you play or prehaps a few of
them?
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| Gothmog: |
I "play" Donk, Gryme, Labero,
Grul, Ancalimon, Nain, Orodreth and some.. more secret ones.
:-)
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| Iomene: |
Ok, which one was your first
and when was it created?
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| Gothmog: |
Hm, my first was neither of
those.. my first character ever was called Grom and created ...
summer 1994. Then I didn't play until summer 1995 and it had
definately deleted...
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| Iomene: |
An Orc it sounds
like? |
| Gothmog: |
Nope, Grom was a mighty level
13 troll. :-) I remember hanging out with Brutal, Wert, Bawanga and
the others in BBT.
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| Iomene: |
Not bad, why did you have an
one year pause?
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| Gothmog: |
Well I never really got
addicted to the game, I mainly played it with Wert (that's Ginlon's
_old_ troll) and never got the hang of it. Then I started KTH
(*.kth.se) in 1995 and started playing for real. :-/
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| Iomene: |
The other labrats from kth.se
were already playing or did you get them started
aswell?
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| Gothmog: |
Me and p(Ginlon) used to play
BBS games against each other.
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| Iomene: |
Who won?! |
| Gothmog: |
I always won the BBS
games. |
| Iomene: |
Did the other players from KTH
already play MUME or did you encourage them to do so? I once talked
to an old kth.se player who said that one lab was the strategic
brains of MUME (tm) and the other more like
scriptpeople?
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| Gothmog: |
The people playing from
lnf.kth.se when I started was Zolt and Dain and hm.. Baal (Pelle!)'
Yes, the e.kth.se people were more of Moria XP people (Mekin, Burst,
Dif etc) whereas the lnf.kth.se gang, as I joined, became hardcore
PK
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| Iomene: |
Did you stare angrily at each
other if you happened to meet at 7/11 during
nightsessions?
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| Gothmog: |
Gothmog shakes his head at you.
Not at all. :-) Now, after I started playing for real.. p(Warmaster)
and p(Ginlon) started to play a lot... we PK'd mainly, but basically
the "ptah.lnf.kth.se" PK gang was us three, and we played way too
much..
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| Iomene: |
Way too much? How long was
your longest not-close-your-eye-session?
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| Gothmog: |
We capped at 42h or so. After
that it was impossible to type even the simplest
commands.
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| Iomene: |
That's not bad at all. So you
crashed on the labfloor or in the car I guess?
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| Gothmog: |
Or on the subway
home. |
| Iomene: |
But then you went too far,
no?! |
| Gothmog: |
Yes, it happened
:) |
| Iomene: |
(Here Dain, who has been
standing in the room, interfering now and then mentions something
about 'filialen comfychairs')
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| Gothmog: |
Yeah the lab had chairs that
were shaped to fit the body of a slacking mudder. You could curl up
and sleep for 12h in them.. right next to the vending machines..
people running by you doing important things in the lab all day.
Then you woke up at nightfall, ready to get another
50wps.
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| Iomene: |
Wow, our lab doesn't have
that! Tihi. Which character of yours is your overall
favourite?
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| Gothmog: |
Hm, Labero or
Donk. |
| Iomene: |
Who in the lab got the most
upset upon dying?
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| Gothmog: |
p(Ginlon) has this nice habit
of going REALLY SILENT when he dies. Then he suicides a lot. Of
course, after a couple of years p (Slaktarn, Gangster etc) started
to play and he got REALLY ANGRY when dying. Once I killed Slaktarn's
elf mage while he was sitting 1 meter away from me... while I
spammed close I yelled 'You're dying you're dying' at him. That
didn't exactly cheer him up.
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| Iomene: |
Tihi. So, back to the game..
Was there any zone you found more pleasure pking
within?
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| Gothmog: |
I always preferred closed,
tight areas. Tharbad sewers, old White Worm, Necromancer, old East
Priest.
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| Iomene: |
How many % of the time did you
spend pking/smobbing/xping?
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| Gothmog: |
95/1/4 |
| Iomene: |
Hardcore pker, you
mean? |
| Gothmog: |
Indeed. |
| Iomene: |
Do/did you think being that
sort of player makes it impossible to RP as much as you
want?
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| Gothmog: |
Actually I started out as a
RPer, but after a year of failed RPing, I gave it up - started PKing
with my character (Xerxes the Hobbit), got warlord, then Sauron's
listed. Manwe still loves me for Sauron's Listing
Xerxes.
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| Iomene: |
How do you like the MUME
management, is there anyone who in your opinion deserves extra
credit?
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| Gothmog: |
Yes there are
several. |
| Dain: |
(Dain points at himself. Dain
nods to himself. Must need some reassurance...)
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| Gothmog: |
Dain, certainly, has
contributed a lot.
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| Dain: |
(Dain rubs up against Gothmog
and purrs softly.)
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| Gothmog: |
Fror, he keeps working and
working. Ilie has done _lots_.
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| Dain: |
Bah i wrote lots more code
than ilie did |
| Gothmog: |
So, my 3 heroes are probably
Dain, Ilie and Fror. They made MUME possible. Of course,
Nada.
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| Iomene: |
Is there any player except
your labfriends who you miss playing with?
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| Gothmog: |
Well, I miss playing _against_
Achilles and Tyrion. Donk, Drokk & Warmaster against Achilles,
Tyrion, Elle and 3 redshirts.Those were the days. We had link and
lab, they had whitie characters, bad links and numbers.
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| Iomene: |
So, fair enough you'd
say? |
| Gothmog: |
Well, I guess we died _at
least_ as much as they did.
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| Iomene: |
Is there any feature that you
would like to be changed/removed?
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| Gothmog: |
Trolls should get "fixed" -
more barehand OB, less equipment. (Yes the mender in DT is my
fault). Failing poison should not envenom a weapon. MP regen gain
from endurance skill should be lowered some. Subraces should be
fixed.
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| Iomene: |
What about xp/wpgain, is it
well balanced?
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| Gothmog: |
XP isn't perfectly balanced. 3
people killing a level 30 gets 100k XP each. 1 person killing a
level 30 gets 100k XP as well, so the level 30 is worth 300k XP when
outnumbered, but 100k XP when soloed.
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| Iomene: |
Ok, did you ever expect anyone
to reach level ninety?
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| Gothmog: |
After seeing the work Huor and
others put in to get past level 65+, I never thought
so.
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| Iomene: |
Do you have any special advice
for newbies to MUME?
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| Gothmog: |
Don't mind dying. Don't be
greedy. |
| Iomene: |
What about the difficulty of
mobs? Is Balrog risky enough to gain such great equipment
from?
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| Gothmog: |
Well we probably need to tweak
it again. Since it is extremely dangerous if you don't have a method
for killing it. But nowadays, with the cheater-pages of Gray and
others, plus the increased knowledge of players... it's a lot
easier. So, no. I think it's too easy.
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| Iomene: |
Does having good gear matter
as much or more than it did when you were new to MUME? Or is it a
question about people being greedy?
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| Gothmog: |
No it actually matters less
I'd think. In the old days you could wear 2 iron rings, both being
+10 DB.
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| Iomene: |
That's kickass! Do you think
the whining on poisoners/overkills is really legitimate or do you
think it's a part of the game?
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| Gothmog: |
Some of the whining is
definately well grounded. Some isn't. Poison is very easy to avoid
for a powerplayer grouping up with other powerplayers. Poison is a
Killer to a solo player who doesn't spend a lot of time getting
antidote herbs, vellums, draughts etc. If you're out walking your
solo warrior and get hit by arachnia... you're pretty much a roasted
duck. Well I might be a kick-ass player, but if I don't do group
things (vellum scroll), poison is extremely dangerous.
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| Iomene: |
Ok, at last, tell us your best
story from MUME.
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| Gothmog: |
When I was racing to break 400
wps with Jynilth (half-elf mage) the most fun thing I did was
probably porting into east priest (remember the olog-hai?) where11
darkies had blocked themselves in with some (now dead) wihties. I
targetted Nubis (BN) and killed him while in a group of 10 others
and then I ported out. Was a good 50 wps or so.
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| Iomene: |
Ok, last question, who is the
King of Moria, Scar or Warmaster?
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| Gothmog: |
Hm I know Moria at least as
good as Warmaster, so it has to be Scar. :-) The Danes lived in
Moria for a year or so. :-)
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| Iomene: |
Ok, thank you very much
Gothmog. Please arrange some more MUME-meetings and don't forget to
play some now and then. Good bye.
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| Gothmog: |
Bye. |
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