@bradp: I heared about a soundpack for vip mud. Do you know if this pack is compatible with MUSHclient?

As for Star conquest, I found that as long as you stay in char while around other players the host really don't complain, or at least not that much. Of course this means that you have to watch what you say on the comms and what you are doing while not allone, but over all, I have found that Star conquest is really better than miriani. I don't know about you, but I don't like getting blone up for no good reason. If you get shot out of space in Star conquest, you usually can figure out why and maybe do something about it. After all, you would not want to still the ship that belong to that nice person that made that nice hatch cracker for you or of that other person who made those interdicters...

@CW actually no, the hosts can be jerks sometimes
I heard about someone who had her command unit taken away because apparently they thought she was scripting even though she just types extremely fast, and I myself had my rats suits taken away because I used the missile strategy on the nest before they nerfed said missiles

that is true, however in my case how was I supposed to know that was a supposed exploit? lol I thought since it could one shot you it was only fair you could one shot it back, also the missiles miss so often its not even funny anyways

I'm personally waiting on Dentin's stelaraeon space mud sinse one thing we can be sure of is if it's setup by the creator of Alter it won't either be pvp nuts or rp nuts and will likely evolve into lots of things to do particularly sinse he's planning on random area generation.

I'm not sure when it'll be done but I look forward to trying it when it is.

Just this morning I stuck my head around the door of wayfare1444 again which is a space colony based game. I'm not sure how space combat works sinse you literally need to build everything yourself. Apparently there is a pvp element but nothing bad has happened to my stuff thus far, however the crafting and exploring is great. The only thing I wish the game did have is a way to make the maps accessible sinse some resources can only be found in certain environments and it's rather difficult to know where those environments are without access to the ascii map.

@DD, in your post yesterday about using missiles, are you seriously saying that you got penalised for killing a mob too quickly? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever!

I completed the spaceship class and another one that i dont remember. Its been too long. I am supposed to be hunting stuff, but I am too busy making my base! wish it was real easy to find those resources...

I am just building my starship as well in wayfare, then with only three more discoveries I'll have finished the botonist job, I'll probably leave it for a bit though sinse I want to continue with paladin of the sky today, plus I'm on the end of shadowmarch by tad williams which is awsome! so I might stop gaming for some reading.

As regards Wayfare, there is a list on the website of what resources are found in what biomes, the problem is finding the actual biomes without an ascii map. Does anyone know how to get hold of the dev to ask about the nearest environment command?

I'd also like some abilities to sort showing of my inventory sinse it's a pain to have to read through all the weapons, tools marmor, tools I own before I get to say what alien artifacts or  hackable devices I've discovered.

It would be good if you could do the same with other items as with gear, ie, see what you've got with single commands. Though that is more of a niggle than anything, the biomes bit is actually problematic.

yeah that's basically what it is from how I see it
its kinda unfair though, because the boss itself can still one shot you as I just found out about a month ago

Well things have rather changed since this topic was first posted.

first I've tried star conquest, and while I can't comment on the rp system the game just had waaaaaay too much spam to be enjoyable for me, it was nearly impossible to shoot anything and i got ships destroyed. I've talked about my disappointment with the game elsewhere so won't go into that, but suffice it to say i wasn't impreswsed.

Promethius I liked for not having the pvp, but it was a harder game to get into and rather difficult as someone new to this tuype of mud to work out what needed doing how and when, eg how to get a ship, communicate etc. I'd love to see promethius updated with quests and missions and a bit more npc interaction to ease new players.

On the other hand we then have cosmic rage which, even though i'm only level 40 at the moment and haven't tried any of the ship stuff does indeed rock! I love the activities and the world and the setup and the fact new stuff is added, also no pvp from what I gather although the game certainly isn't always easy.

So yes methinks Cosmic rage gets my vote as my favourite space based game, or the one I've liked best thus far.

for what it's worth, I'm still out on Miriani.  It's getting bad rep for being the game everyone goes to to pirate, but there are ways around that business and even respect for those who keep silent, such as myself.  I won't make myself known to you, but if I ever discover you've been blockaded and or stunned and stranded I will do my absolute best to rescue you and any crew with you, provided that I know at least half of the story.  I don't roleplay either and they leave me alone.  CR is on the backburner for now because I prefer stability over a ton of features, which is something Miriani still offers.  No, it's not perfect, but nothing ever is.
Whatever your stance is on the issue of PVP, it's there.  The trick is to accept it and think ahead.  I've already been stunned and stranded a ton of times over the course of three years and have suffered no major losses, not even material ones.  Nowadays, they know they can't intimidate me, thus, they don't mess with me.  Silence, is still, golden.