No one man is a MUD unto himself..
Tell me at your work place do all the managers know how to do your job? Do
their bosses know how to do theres? Does the CEO of the company you work for
know how to do every ones job in the company that he is in charge of? If
the answer to all of those are yes then please tell me where I can send a
resume... It takes a team of great individuals to run a mud. Yes it's
helpful to have an admin who can code, admin, and handle the politics of
the mud but is it necessary? Anyhow, I'll not go into any further
discussion on this subject as I believe the whole thing is more opinion
based then anything. I would however suggest that any further
correspondence be directed to individuals instead of the entire mud list..
-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Brown [mailto:ViperBrd@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 2:22 PM
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca
Subject: Re: mud that has no circlemud world
files or mobs
<< Oh, lord .. another one who thinks running a mud is the
same as coding
the mud. Or thinks that the IMP should be the coder.
I am a true believer that you do not have to know how to
code, to run a
mud. I will not argue the fact that it is better to be able
to do both!
However, there are many out there that can code, but not
administer a
mud and vice-versa. >>
I'm kind of hitting several different random points here,
bear with me:
I'm lost...is it me, or perhaps does it seem that everybody
and his dog now
runs a MUD? You act as if it's such a common position to be
an
Implementor... that, hey..if you can't do something, just
hire somebody to do
it for you.
A CircleMUD is a big coding and administration project.
What's the point of
taking it on if you can't handle both parts? Granted, you
*can* bring in
people to do it for you, but then..what satisfaction are you
getting?
Implementors who start a MUD most commonly (or rather,
hopefully), have a
dream about what they want to have their new community do
and what it'll look
like in the end. How do you keep this dream while
accepting the other
dreams of whomever you hire? You can't possibly be a
non-coding Implementor,
and be able to pass on to your coder the exact idea of what
you want - you
have to do it yourself. Granted, there is a mixture of
possibly good changes
that may occur, but overall, you're not going to get exactly
what you want.
<< However, there are many out there that can code, but not
administer a
mud and vice-versa. >>
Then why run a MUD? If you can code, but not administer,
then running a MUD
is not for you. MUDs are a complex mixture of code and
politics:
- If you can handle only coding, then go work on an offline
project, or
something where you're not dealing with a major mixture of
players.
- If you can only handle the politics, then find a job in
the PR department
of a nearby corporation.
From the CircleMUD FAQ:
" Mud Experience doesn't help a huge amount. _Code
experience does_."
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B. Brown
Webmaster, CircleMUD WTFaq
http://developer.circlemud.org/docs/wtfaq/
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