Man. Didn't this thing start life as a bbs game back in the 80s? Good stuff.

Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be playing this one.
I can't play a MUD that has no soundpack. That's boring to me

How am I missing out?
The soundpack makes it more exciting

LOL. I think the younger generation of people will always want sounds and stuff with their mud gaming. It's more us older players who are fine playing muds without sounds, because we had to play that way for a long time, and so got used to using our imaginations. Now I'm not saying there aren't exceptions to the rule, but in general, younger audiences do want flashier entertainment. You only have to look at the world of video games as proof -- games with flashy graphics and such sell much better than their more subdued counterparts.

Remember that all sound packs started with someone who had a passion for the mud in question. They all take time and effort to get the triggers, scripts, and sounds in place. You could be the one to start a sound pack for a game, rather than always relying on others to do it for you.

Kai

a soundpack isnt evrything i agree with the others here

I've had a weird but interesting experience with muds. The first mud I played was miriani, with an excellent. I played sc, also with a soundpack, I played cr and alter also, both with their packs. Then I fell in love with fantasy muds, and found out...crap crap crap...most of these muds have either a very basic soundpack, e.g. aardwolf and materiamagica, or they have no pack at all, e.g. Asteria and A Tempest Season. Well, I was left with 2 choices, either stick to Alter for my fantasy experience or try and branch out into muds with no packs. I picked the second, and I haven't looked back since. I can't even believe that I was limiting myself on the awesome content there is with muds by demanding they have a pack. I'm not anyone's boss, nor do I desire to be, and I hope I didn't come across rude or offensive with this post, but to all those who feel they need soundpacks in their muds, I respectfully yet strongly encourage you to go try a mud or two of your favorite genre that has no pack, try the different brief/spam options and see if you like it. Love alter? Try erian or aardwolf. Love space muds, give this one a try. I haven't, and I haven't given a space mud with no pack a try yet, because I've only been playing muds with no pack for approximately six months now, but I'm looking forward to trying this.

I always feel like such a cranky old lady yelling at people to get off of her lawn when people say that they won't play a mud without a soundpack.

Back in my day...

I had to walk up muds both ways with telnet and not realizing that I could have turned on local echo in preferences to be able to read what I was typing. All we had was a sword and no spoon!

I will try Fed 2 again. Without the navigation system that you can get with some toads, how did you find the space navigation on its own?

So, here's the story... I'm as old as some of you and I didn't really have my own PC until I was 21; that was o9.  Everything I'd played up until that point came across a console, had graphics, and, yes, dare I say it, sound.  Even 8bit sound is still sound, no matter how poor a representation of a sound it may be.  I didn't encounter text games until I visited this site for the first time.
I like browserbased games and did my fair share of messing around with LOGD and Dragon Tavern and a few others beside.  On Ios?  I've only played 4 or 5 games that have sound in them; diceworld, mousekick and bop-it come to mind.  Other than that, all of them are text!   I loved nano empires, all text, a few minutes of glory, all text, Evelyn's farm, all text, and on the PC I honestly grew fond of fallen worlds which became ravaged worlds and I don't know if its still kicking around... I say again, all text.
The text is more or less consistent; it does not scroll across my screen at a million miles a second and require me to raise my speech rate to 200 percent, which would be absolutely no good to me for two reason:
1.  I'm a hearing impaired screen reader user.
What, you really wanted a number 2?  I said two reasons!  They're on the sides of my head!  Seriously!  It's made understanding speech hard at faster rates!  I have my speech set at 50 at present and can barely get away with stuff as is!  And you want me to add scrolling text to that just so I can be a good gamer by your standards?  No, you don't make me feel welcome, and you don't make me feel any further accepted when you say I'm a spoiled brat because I want sound to keep up with you, speedreader.

Because you were willing to describe it as such, I'll willingly try it.  I hope it is as you say and if I come across anything else that is an issue, I sincerely hope I am given a fair hearing on this topic. 

Text maps are here:

https://federation2.com/guide/#sec-20.200

For getting started, Earth one, keep going south, east, then find the GA office, elevator, bribe the hell outta the poor official, then back to the shipyard, buy yer ship, and get familiar with the Sol map

Not everyone's scripting and programming savly, either... I wish I were, but I know I'm not.  I'm working through Darter's python tutorials, but I know me, so if I don't learn a single freaking thing I can't blame it on him.
Right now I"m actually having an issue with my command line telling me absolutely nothing, or at least, not telling my screen reader the way it's supposed to.  I get no output for any information whatsoever, which is rather irritating.

Ever since i actually got a working mud client in 2010, i've been tempted to try fed 2 because of the exploring. I'd start to read the manual and read up on activities, and thinkg "hay this is cool!"
Then I'd get into futures trading and creating a company and my head would spin and I'd think "hay do i really want to do this?" .

I also didn't know the game had any quests.

On the text issue, I definitely appreciates Nocturnus point given his situation, and I'm not a fan of super fast spammy text either.

That said, I will confess I get a little irritated by the amount of people who want sound in muds because sound is exciting and refuse to play without.

I love sound, I love atmosphere and music and all those cool things, and yes, I also grew up with graphical 16 bit era games which had awesome sound and music. However muds are at rock bottom text games, you type commands, you read text, if you don't want to play text games, don't play muds, and don't expect every new mud to have a soundpack, because, well muds are text games!

To me, a soundpack is like dessert after dinner. A good thing if it's there, and certainly I'd always enjoy it if possible, but I'm not going to do myself out of dinner just because there is no dessert.