hi all, i registered, but when i trying to type newbie hi all, it say uh? what i can to do to say to newbie channel? please help! i was questing for help in ooc, but you, sevria, you doesn't listenning to me.

Hi:
That's right. Most channels require a / first. Not all, but most. So /newbie will work, as will /ooc. You can type /history and channel name to review the last messages on said channel. For instnace: /hist newbie.
I'm off and on during the night, depending on what time I end up going to bed, so if I don't respond but am on, it's probably because I'm afk. Keep trying though, there are plenty of other players online, and if I see a question I'll answer.

Well as to the forum, while empire mud itself has been around for some time, this is a new release and the first major topic I think we've had about it, so okay.

Unfortunately, I must say I was rather put off the game recently by the creator's less than stellar attitude. I was looking for a place to start my empire and asking on the newbie channel, sinse everywhere I looked was heavily populated already and the only advice I was getting was "look on the graphical map", frankly wandering aroun for close to three hours real time walking and having to rest just to try and find somewhere to start my empire was getting severely on my whick.

I did suggest perhaps that there should be an easier way to find teretory that already wasn't heavily taken up, however then the creator sent me a tell and instead of being helpful  first gave me a major tongue lashing for "complaining on a public channel" and then said "well if you don't like the game don't play"

When i explained that my issue was in fact that I loved! the look of the game in terms of it's crafting, skills, resources gathering  and what not and was just trying to find a place to start playing (something which as I said I'd been attempting to do for three hours at this stage), the creator just repeated "well don't complain on the public channels"

On the one hand, I would guess that now  things are starting up it's much easier to find space for your empire. On the other I'm not entirely convinced I want to try a game again where I got such a bad response from the game's developer just for looking for assistance.

of course, he could've just had a bad day, people do on occasion, but still, for someone who has played and started and tried out a hole bunch of games I wasn't exactly pleased, and it wasn't as if I was all "hay, dis gam so0rs cos des n0 space, @%$#$" or similar.

I also love this mud, and have been getting into it quite a bit lately.
Dark, I think the owner must have just been having a bad day. I remember when I first started in alpha, I was having trouble, and when I asked on the newbie channel, the first response I got was to look at the graphical map, but when I explained that I used a screen reader and that wasn't really helpful, he sent me a tell and gave me some suggestions as to where I could go.
I have a few characters on there, if anyone has any questions. I'm akira, kazuki, and mandas. My empire, tenchi, is also always recruiting members, and we're willing to help people get started.

Dark:
Just to clarify, you're sure it was the same Empire mud that is referenced here? The Empire mud codebase is public, and so there are a lot of clones of it out there. This one is the original and in active development, but there are a great number of "empire" muds.

Still, if it was the same mud, your experience sounds unusual. I would strongly recommend giving it another try, as I haven't seen much of that attitude in the time I've been here.

Here's a message you get while registering:
EmpireMUD makes heavy use of an ascii map, but also supports screen
readers for the visually impaired. This will replace the map with a short
description of what you can see in each direction on the world map. This
option is only recommended for players using screen readers. You can see
HELP SCREEN READER once you're in the game for more information.
Are you using a screen reader (y/n)?

After you are in the game, type help screen reader
I personally increase my map size to the max so i could see my surroundings as far as possible.
I just re joined this game after the player wipe, So i myself should look to do things in the game. Maybe one of the strategies is to find a nice guy and join his empire, learn the map a bit, then build a city of your own in that current empire with the help of them. or, after a while split off and go make your own empire. there are too many things to do in this game regarding management, but  the big challenge is the map as dark just said; How ever that can be solved in game with a little bit of help

I'm afraid that yes, I am certain it was! empire mud at empiremud.net that I played, I checked the website out first and it mentioned the version 2.0 and player wipe. I also did find the text scanning and screen reader access very good, the main trouble I had was finding new teretory to start up my own empire sinse I am never really one to join someone else's and like to do things from the start myself, however as I said I looked around for three solid hours and could find no where that wasn't already amazingly heavily populated.

I also do believe it was the game's creator I spoke to who gave me the less than friendly reception as well, though as I said anyone can have a bad day and I did certainly like the look of the game, indeed it may be the fact that there was!  such a need for a player wipe which caused new teretory to be so hard to come by.

I will see though about giving the game another try at the weekend sinse I certainly liked the idea behind it, and unlike Wayfar1444, it did strike me the game would remain interesting even after you've found your location and built up your empire sinse there was so much else to add from sorcery, to combat, to road building and even making your own navy.

I would love to try this. It sounds like my kind of game and I thought WayFar kind of let me down. It seemed a bit too easy. However, I can't even create a character because all it says when I connect is to enter my character name. I tried the obvious. "New," "create," and just simply the letter N. None worked. This is a really critical thing to be able to get new players. Why this was over-looked, I will never understand...

Edit: Someone told me to just enter the name I want and it will tell me if it's available then let me continue with character creation. This seems obvious now that I know, but it would still be a good idea to include a couple of sentences explaining this upon connect so that others don't have this issue.

Hey hey!
Is there a nice first steps tutorial somewhere? I think i would try this but i dont have a plan what to do first.

Hey, now that I'm starting to get a handle, I invite yall to join my empire, Aeleria, and let's build from the ground up. I've been hard at work getting the layout done and some buildings up, let's kick some ass, join today, and get a warm fuzzy feeling, contact Brendt in game.

I'm surprised this topic hasn't gained much interest, anyway, I'm advertizing for people to join my empire once again, we need people.