2006-12-13 01:03:48

Does anyone know if there is a mudding game where you can drive vehicles? I heard there was one where you could be an automechanic

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2006-12-13 07:14:41 (edited by cx2 2006-12-13 07:28:57)

www.awakenedworlds.netIt's a little more complex, but it has vehicles including mounted weapons and remote control drones, guns that can shoot into other rooms, computer hacking, etc. It does have the ability to repair and upgrade vehicles so you can be a mechanic of sorts.

It's based on Shadowrun, a pen and paper RPG with some slightly odd quirks. It's near future sci fi, but with magic and elves/orks/trolls. If you get confused about the background try the official site with a timeline at :
www.shadowrunrpg.com

The character generation system is a little more involved too. You have to make some choices before you even get into the game world about how much focus you want on attributes, money to buy starting gear, and starting skills. If you want to be a vehicle specialist (rigger) I suggest you put resources at priority B for 400K, get a data jack and vwehicle control rig in the cyberware section, get at leas tsome driving skill as well as high gunnery, and buy a Ford Canada Bison, and grab a remote control deck in the gear area.

Remember any "starting" cash doesn't leave the chargen area you start in, so spend as much as you can. If you expect to fight a lot, and who doesn't, muscle toner 4 and a smartlink-2 are highly recommended.

It's also highly recommended you get a phone, radio and pocket secretary. Radios are essential as a new player since radio frequency of I think it's 8mhz is essentially the IC channel. You don't have to RP, but you aren't allowed to ask questions about the game world like "Where can I buy/find..." on the OOC chat channel. Phones are working, and pocket secs are PDAs that cans tore phone numbers and access in game mail.

You'll be starting with some quite good skills compared to most muds, so pick wisely. Skills are listed under help as are a good chunk of the cyber and bioware, but if you need help ask on newbie channel there's usually someone on.

There's a lot to it, but it makes sense in terms of comparing it to today mostly.

Edit:
I don't know if you would trust me, but if you wanted I would be willingto whip you up a character according to your specifications as best I can. Alternatively if you want more detailed info I'd be willing to put some info together.

cx2
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2006-12-13 16:00:33

This sounds, well, very interesting. Mind e-mailing me a bit more info? I play alter eon

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2006-12-13 20:17:31

hi timberwolf,
it's your clan mate wuver. it's good to see you're on this forum. godwars2 has mounts, but not vehicles. you should check the suggestion above.
regards.

2006-12-14 00:36:55

Hi,

Ok, if you wouldn

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2006-12-14 07:30:32 (edited by cx2 2006-12-14 08:53:28)

By the time of your last post I had already emailed it I believe. If it's lost I could try sending it again, but it can be that it takes some hours for emails to reach teh destination at times.

Edit:
And I'm not really equipped for audio tutorials, and if |I was I bet you still wouldn't understand my accent. I've nowhere near as clear a voice as Dark.

cx2
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2006-12-16 06:21:10

What e-mail did you use? Try emailing me at:

[email protected]

I changed it after posting here, since I don

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2006-12-16 07:43:37 (edited by cx2 2006-12-16 08:17:16)

That's the address it sent to through the forum. I'll resend it and see if it comes through this time.

Edit:
Unless it was the capitalised first letter that did it. I couldn't find a resend option in outlook so I forwarded it and pasted that address in so either way it should hopefully work this time.

cx2
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2006-12-21 04:11:59

Okay, I'm guessing you haven't received it on the other address either. Have you checked your bulk mail folder? Hotmail might think I was spam, I don't trust these filters much.

Alternately I'm more than happy to answer any questions on here if you like. It's just hard to know what you want to know, so specific queries would be helpful.

Mostly you just pick the word for what you want to do, and the help file is pretty good with commands. Example:
shoot, well shoots someone
reload, reloads a weapon.
holster, holsters a gun.
sheath, sheaths a melee weapon.
ready, prepares a holster or sheath for automatic use
draw, draws the weapon in the prepared holster or sheath
repair, repairs a vehicle but only from outside and requires tools or a workshop for big jobs
upgrade, fits an upgrade to a vehicle or drone
drive, takes control of a vehicle
speed, sets the speed of a vehicle I advise "cruise"

Driving isn''t hard either. You just drive, speed cruise, then use walking commands. Some rooms are classed as "highways" which means vehicles only and some are classed as no-vehicle such as in buildings.

Hope this helps.

cx2
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2006-12-25 23:55:01

Sooooooo sorry for not responding in like 2 weeks. Its been hectic around here: anyway, what

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2006-12-26 08:24:24

Okay, I'll put my email in but you'll have to replace the word "at" with the at symbol, and the same for the dot. I don't want spammer programs picking it up.

cx2 at ukpc dot net

That's U K P C

I'll need at least a character name, race, "archetype" which is what skills you want your character to have like vehicle driving or repair by vehicle type and preferred weapons.

Vehicle types are:
Bike
car
truck, used for vans too
Drone, for repair only not for driving.

Ranged weapon skills are:
Pistols, including machine pistols
Sub machine guns, bigger than a pistol but still fits in a normal holster.
Shotguns
Rifles, for sniper and hunting types
Assault rifles, for automatic firing rifles
Gunnery, for firing weapons fixed on vehicles and drones

Melee skills are:
Unarmed
Edged weapons
Whips and flails
Polearms
Clubs, including the stun baton
CyberImplants, for retractable weapons built into your body.

There's also:
Electronics, for cracking credsticks you pick up to transfer the money off and bypass electronic locks. Credsticks are sort of like credit cards, and the lock thing is basically a more up to date version of lockpicking.
Biotech, basically first aid
Negotiation, for getting better prices on things you buy and more money from work
Etiquette by type, helps your chances of getting something on order.

Assuming you aren't interested in any type of magic you'll probably have 54 starting skill points or so. A little info on gear and cyber you want will help too. Examples are:

Data jack, allows you to use cyberdecks for hacking or connect directly to a vehicle
Vehicle control rig, when combined with a remote control deck and data jack lets you remote control a vehicle. Required for using drones.
Remote control deck, even if you don't have a control rig you can see the name of the room your vehicles are in in case they get lost or relocated in a crash.
Style of clothing and armour. For exa,mple you can have an armoured jacket, trenchcoat, forearm guards, duty belt for two holsters or sheaths and 5 small items like radio or clips, and various types of footwear shirts and trousers.

I know this sounds like a lot, but the chargen is quite a hurdle.

It doesn't surprise me you made a character called create, I've been half expecting someone to make one called "new" or "create" for a while given how vague the prompt is.

BTW, I hope you don't mind asking but is your username a reference to Battletech/Mechwarrior? It's just Timber Wolf is very familiar.

cx2
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2007-01-02 23:52:29

That

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