I'm generally afraid of playing muds, because I can't stop playing. I get addicted too quickly, which is not great at all...
Do you have any suggestions on how to handle this?

my muds lifes keep changeing, haha, sometime I am on 3skape, squaresoft, clok, empiremud, cosmic rage, frandom, or alter aeon.

I play cyber assault, and game is so cool...

@Firefly, the problem I have with creating an extra muds room is the ame problem I have with creating a side scrollers roomm, a browser games room, a sports games room or a room for any other sort of game.
I don't want to segrigate players and discussion.

For example, if someone was asking about rpgs with complex cdiscussions, or roleplay, or puzzles or whatever, I don't want people only configned to answering with one game type. I also want a situation where say something like core exiles could be compared to something like cosmic rage.

the thing I can suggest people do however is post topics about muds in new releases, just as people have been doing, that way people can see what  have been investigated, and this even goes for long standing muds which people might know about but haven't tried, if there isn't already a topic there, eg, I don't think we have a new releases room topic about cyber assult.
I am also of course trying to create db entries for those muds with especially good screen reader adaptations, though manifestly that is a little longer process.

As to muds and me well here is the list in rough order of when I've last been playing them.

4dimentions: This one I was trying a while ago but stopped due to being rather busy getting my new win ten machine. I'm liking the crafting and extra things to earn xp besides combat (of which there are many), and a lot of the ideas in the game and the writing, but I do wish things were a little less obscure, either that or that players would be bit more inofrmative with info. given I've had a good response from the developer though i might try and work things out better.
As a quick thumbnail, 4d has fairly stock combat, but lots of quests, and interesting stuff with ranged weapons, plus a huge range of none combat stuff to do as well. Theme is time travel, though time travel with fantasy and a little pop culture thrown in.

Aardwolf: played this recently after realizing I was enjoying erion and wanted to give another try.
Combat and quests are about as fun as autoquests can be and some of the writing is good, however the goals are very! obscure in parts and running around finding mobs and slaughtering them for quest points can only go so far, likewise combat tends to revolve typing spellup and spamming attack commands. I also don't like corpse dropping upon death either.

Erion: This one actually I think has great potential but some major flaws. Similar to aardwolf in having random quests, but very different in that quest equipment is perminantly useful, there is no corpse drop. Writing and areas are imho better than aardwolf and combat is I think more interesting, particularly because the abilities don't tend to just be spam commands (I love playing an archer and shooting at a distance and hiding). Erion is also great for other random stuff happening outside combat, eg, drops of extra items like sigils equip your character, tyles you can make monopoly words with etc.
the really major! problem with erion is that advancement is rather slow and finding missions to do outside of combat is fairly hard, despite the fact that the player base is very helpful. I suspect this will change in time given that they are currently working on a new witch class and a crafting system, so probably one to watch.

Cosmic rage: Really! enjoy a lot of the game here, probably the only space mud I've been successful with. The only problem i have currently is getting started after I had a rather bad ship disaster, but I really ought to just sort things out and give thingsw another try, especially given how much work is going into the game and how very responsive the admins are to requests for access changes

Alteraeon: Do I really need to explain this one? . I only stopped to try some different muds, but I likely will play again soon enough, possibly at the next event. What I find astounding is even after playing other combat orientated games, Alteraeon still stands out. In it's quests, in the balance of the combat and how interesting combat is (making potions, having minians), and in many other aspets being expanded like leather crafting. Certainly not a game I'll give up on, albeit I do try other things from now and again for variety's sake.

Frandom: Really awesome game with very good development, extremely nice writing and a detailed world. I got a little burned out on looking at objects and finding quest solutions, however when I got sick of bashing mobs on aardwolf I decided give 4D a go, and if  obscurity in terms of quests is too much I may well try frandom again.

Classic six dragons: Again this is a game with great potential. Awesome and possible to do quests, an interesting world, and potentially even interesting actual inter city war (if only there were more players and more cities). The major problem is that experience comes slowly and I am afraid I found the grinding a bit irritating, particularly when I was waiting to be hih enough level for another quest.

Those are all the games I currently have profiles loaded in vipmud for at the moment.

I have of course tried other muds, though a full list would likely be rather long methinks :d.

Doubtless I will try more in the future again.

In no particular order, the muds on my hot list at the moment:

Alter Aeon (though it's gone through a period of burnout for me for the last while)
UossMud (I'm getting back into this one and giving it another try, it's hard but it's doable)
Frandum (this one is fun, but in small bursts)
4 dimensions (I dropped it and I don't think I'm going back, but it was a good little run while it lasted, until I realized that silly knowledge-hoarding is the name of the game)
And not so much a mud, but Hollow
Hollow is basically a game played in your web browser and it's almost entirely RP-based. If RP isn't your thing, you won't like this one. Players are helpful and there are, as far as I know, no accessibility issues. Lots of races/classes to choose, plus you can customize both to some extent. You can stat too, but really the only reason to stat is to gain gold on your own, and gold is only really used to buy gear (be it regular or custom). I know a lot of players, self included, who don't have and don't buy any such thing, but just describe what they've got or what they're wearing. If you play this one though, do bear in mind that if you harass players for any reason, you're apt to get the hammer. And by harass, I don't mean ask newbie questions. I mean badgering and the like. I was recently punished on this mud for first asking a judge why I lost a duel (dueling is an art form on Hollow), then sending that judge one message back after they'd explained their point. I wasn't even aggressive or mean, just disagreed with a couple points; even finished with thanks for judging the duel, but I was still muted for a week and banned from future tournaments...so yeah. There are definitely some issues with rules not being administered properly. But if you can get past that, it might be a good one.

I did know a chap (actually he used to be called archer on this forum), who was a fun of hollow, nice to know it is still going.
I was slightly putoff by the fact that the rp is basically the thing and there isn't much by way of quests etc.

As regards 4dimentions, actually one thing I have noticed is that "bug report" servs almost as a hint channel and if you submit a bug as in "this quest isn't working" you usually get an answer if nobody on the gossip channel wants to.

Then of course there are actual bugs or moments of clarity (the girl in the forest for example).

the basic idea I get with 4d is that it has some long time players who are a bit arsy about qinfo, a couple of long time players who are nice about qinfo (I can think of two), and the admins who really want more people playing and don't mind either A, giving hints or B, fixing stuff that is unclear, the problem is letting them know these things.

I'll also say I do like the none combat activities. Combat in the game is fairly uninteresting, but none combat stuff like gardening, farming, etc is pretty dam cool and actually advances you rather faster as well.

Then I'm also giving cosmic rage another go since I do like the activitiesand I want to try all of them, right now I'm just trying asteroid harvesting and meteor chasing (though haven't quite done either successfully yet).

Hollow can be found at the following link:

http://www.hollowgame.com

And yeah, like I said, it's about 89% RP, with the other 11% being the ability to stat for gold. There are a few quests, but they're freaking obscure and most players (self included) don't know about them and don't bother.

That being said, the player base is very friendly, and if you like RP enough to get involved with plot arcs that actually go places and can change the world, this might be your cup of tea.

Here. For the fun of it, I'll give you a couple of posts of the general style and complexity Hollow goes for. You don't have to be this wordy or detailed, but this is me on an average day..

Non-combat post

Rikailin pushes open the tavern door with one shoulder and steps inside. The warmth of the fire on the hearth is immediately welcome, and she ambles in that direction, the better to take advantage of the heat. Were one of her friends nearby, they would likely tell the battle-druid that this is precisely what she deserves for daring the wilds of Frostmaw garbed only in vines and moss and birchbark. Drargon, the frost giant tending bar, greets her with a grunt which might actually be friendly, and Rikailin favours him with a distracted half-smile and a rueful shake of the head. "Nothing just now," she amends, "but don't worry. If I stay long enough, I'm sure to order something."

Duel/Combat post

Emrith's training as a spell-blade has taught him many a valuable lesson. Foremost among them at the moment is that sometimes, taking a wound in order to avoid greater injury is the surest path to decisive victory. He drives his left leg upward as the spear darts toward him, skewering the point into the flesh next to his shinbone. Blood sprays, and Emrith hisses his agony through clenched teeth. For the moment, though, his foe is without a usable weapon, and Emrith intends to take full advantage of his opening. He jerks his leg back down - the better to perhaps weaken his opponent's grip on his spear - then brings both of his shortswords across his body just below shoulder height, straightening his arms and driving the keen edges of both blades directly outward and toward his opponent's unguarded torso. One blade would be enough to deliver a mortal injury; two all but guarantee it.

Now, like I said, you don't have to write all the time, but this isn't the sort of RP site where the following exchange would be considered kosher.

Chekhu appears from the north.
Lionel says: Hey Chekhu.
Chekhu says: Hey Lionel.
Chekhu grins.
Lionel hugs Chekhu.
Chekhu giggles.
Lionel says, "Wanna kill some goblins?

It's nowhere near that casual.

Hmmm.. @jayde, based on your posts.. Is hollow like a post by post rp game?

I didn't get the idea in Avalon you had to spend money at aHmmm, Jayde, odd you say that about Avalon since I got the opposite idea, that all the donation items were pretty much conveniences and the balance was very careful.
The only thing that is confusing in Avalon is that it is sort of a pay to play game that isn't quite pay to play, in that you need to subscribe to actually play beyond the first five ohours or so, but getting a sponsored subscription is insanely easy.

hello all i like post-apocaliptic theme mud games and i find that:
http://www.mudconnect.com/mud-bin/adv_s … Desolation

Game is so great but some not properly accessible, can any who  want check game and contact administrators or developpers and ask for accessibility performances...