How’d you find out about Sloth? I know much is being made of TMC and we do get a noticable amount of new peoples, but I’m curious how the people who came and stayed first happened along :)
If I forgot an option or something, post it
I suspect that for 90% of Russians it will be “I read an article in a book called “The best computer games: Volume 3 (i think)” and logged on, so might be an idea to add that option :)
i was born addicted to sloth ..kinda like a crack baby
Could fall in the category of ‘A friend told me about it’, but Sloth used to have a large following at UWEC. If you were in Schneider after hours it was difficult to ignore the Slothers talking back and forth across the room (low-tech ICQ). Other campus labs were similiar if not as bad. Quite a few people were sucked in trying to figure out what the fuss was all about.
Diazz (Kyuss of Soulmud) introduced me to SlothMUDII and FoxMUD
simultaneously in 1996 on the campus of SIU. Similar computer lab
stories for all of us I imagine..except the time Kelley (Diazz) slammed
Lonewolf’s head against a brick wall for being ignorant, at the lab. That
was pretty fuckin’ hilarious.
@ the time the SIU roster was
Legion/Royce
Bluedeath/Joel
Kitten/Alicia
Streetsweepr/Wrigley
Chaffee/Paul
Apolicus/Mike Fry
Diazz/Kelley
Riceman/Dan Parkinson - the real orig riceman
Bruiser/ME
WARCHILD/Brian
Lonewolf/Jerry
SMurfette/Sherry
Sheri/Yet another Mike
Kensia/Wuj
Foogey/Foog- James
Radon/Isaac
Lonestar/Some dude who never would associate with us
MDK/Mike Fisher(Medios)
BRH/Brad
quite a lot of us, we used to hem up the computer lab
Mine is definitely a “fren intro me in”. Still remember, i was serving the army then. One of my superiors (Himura) then was playing this game (which is slothmudIII) and i was very curious by the text going down and descriptions. I played MMORPG then and found it boring as there was little interaction in the game. Then one day, i just asked if he can teach me, he was glad to and a friend of his (Vik) decided to help me along. The late Quins and other existing players such as Packy, Gti, Choong, Chibi, Rojak (original one) also taught me the tricks of the game when i was very small..
I guess that’s when i got hooked by this game :)..heh.
Ok 12345, who the hell are u? I thought the UWEC following was dead and gone, or at least down to me and a few friends of the friend who was the sloth dealer to us all!
If you are 12345 for ‘anonymity’ send a mudmail, I’ll keep it anonymous.
Desade and Calim are the 2 main char’s I’ve played in my days on sloth, since spring of ‘97. I made Calim well after graduation tho.
Nothing anonymous about me, just like the username :)
Played Sloth I 92-94 as Ender, my girlfriend at the time played as Princess. Worked with some guys who played as Krispy, Roboto, Lucid and Jobo. There was also Borf, Starcade (who was a pretty scary guy IRL), whoever Terry played as and about 6 other guys I can’t remember the names of off hand. Not including the folks who played off campus.
I’m hurt 13 u didn’t add me to ur nice little list.
I was playing another mud, wasn’t sure of the name. However Foogey,
Blackwind, and Shawn were playing a mud while I was at SIU lab doing
a paper. Since that day I was hooked, playing from home on a dial-up.
Kinda sucked on that Mud, because there was a total of like 4-5 ppl max
which was usually Blackwind and Foogey.
I then started to play D&D and met Ryan & Dean in real life and they
informed me of a Mud they played. Ryan (Falsra) and Dean (Rage) showed
me SlothIII for the first time. After that I was pretty much hooked.
Then one day playing Sloth, I noticed a geek next to me playing a Mud.
I asked what he was playing, and he stated SlothIII. From that point on
that geek (Medios) and his friends morted me to prime 40.
Then I met Medios friend which was the biggest geek named Aaron, and
he got a ticket for parking in a school zone. Kinda funny if I say so.
After that I mudded for about 3yrs, quit, sold Link, and came back about
1.5yrs later and now I just can’t get enough. Oooo well…
Most of you are prob thinking, wtf is Will typing about? Is this his life story
on Sloth? Well, let me tell u something… YES!!!
You didn’t start playing Sloth until years after the time I’m talking about Will.
I said @ the time :P And you should mention Falsra = Eagle now, and Rage = Monty now.
Addendum to my list
Whey/Tony
and there was one more guy I can’t remember his name..but
he mudded with Whey in the ag lab.
Aaron
Yea but I just sooo fucking rock, u should of put my name there anyways.
Ok i found ok sloth from most of my school mates. A friends of mine actually started playing sloth when he was in a friends house who was slothing at that time (dont recall the chars name). After that it got most of the school playing (well not most of us) like Ker, Barael, Chainer, Hotara, Wert, Stone, Blaze (orginal) not to mention my self. Those events lead us to playing mud.
Ps : sloth is infectious!!!
Actually, the best feature of playing in groups was dying. It was too easy to ask someone else in the lab to go recall you or grab your corpse. And if they didn’t know where you were, you just walked them through it (or did it yourself).
Now I have to use this ICQ thing, and even though the people helping me are pretty cool, the whole concept sucks.
Computer labs were cool. I found sloth during some search, I don’t remember where either via Gopher or some emailed Mud List. We didn’t have web sites back in those days. I’ve still got a partial hard copy of the eqlist that used to be sent around via email.
Hey 12345, ender, whatever. Did you used to scuba dive? I think I talked to you on Sloth way back when.
Charles
I suspect that for 90% of Russians it will be “I read an article in a book called “The best computer games: Volume 3 (i think)” and logged on, so might be an idea to add that option :)[/quote:2wrtkkby]
It was volume two, but it doesnt matter, add that as an option!
Hey 12345, ender, whatever. Did you used to scuba dive? I think I talked to you on Sloth way back when.[/quote:hjo1q3nx]
I do not dive, sorry. You are probably thinking of Duncan, 40 mage type that went to University of Missouri I think.
We both travelled similar circles for a while because of Princess. Duncan is another of the old Slothers that’s closer than you think :wink:
Ok, one of the original slothers in schneider. I think back when you were there, there were some high school kids who snuck into the lab to play sloth. One of them was later a classmate of mine in the CS program. He got me started in spring 97, and the following summer, SII died and SIII was born. Desade cost me at least a letter grade in all my classes :) That fall, 3 of us would all play in the CS lab in phillips, less restrictions from CNS people. 1.5 years later, i was using sloth to keep in touch with those people cuz they hadn’t graduated.
Almost 8 years later, Malachi (original), Ajax where are u guys?
I still log into ajax to raise ppl if there are no other raisers, my 14 wis is a bit low. :)
I am sure there is a tree of ppl off of malachi that still plays, I just won’t mention their names cuz im not 100% sure.
Back in 1992, I was bored on a VAX/VMS system and did a ‘who’ to find out who was on-line. I needed help with something (I don’t recall the question). I saw someone with the name “slacker”. He answered my question and then told me I should try out this really addictive game.
I logged into Sloth at utexas and he did the obligatory few levels and newbie equipment, (This was way back when it was cool to “bow” as a greeting instead of this silly “lick” stuff) I got up to about level 32 and they had a player wipe. After a few days, I started a new character and got up to like 40, 30 when the original Sloth went down forever. Yes, it was the end of the world.
With all this new-found free time, I started playing around with other mud code bases but it just wasn’t the same. Then I ran into Niandra from the original Sloth who had a contact who had a very old version of the original sloth.
With the help of Krom and Niandra, Sloth 2 was born. It started out running on a DEC Ultrix machine. Player files were stored in a place called “scratch” on the system, which was shared amongst all users of that machine. Scratch wasn’t guaranteed to be persistent, but I guess the admins were lazy about cleaning it out. Using Sloth to learn C programming, I ran the shared system out of memory twice. I thought it would end then and there, but instead of getting Sloth canned, the System Administrator suggested using the limit command and moving sloth to another machine. After losing scratch (it was great because they gave us enough warning) Goose provided an old Sparc IPX with 32 megs of ram where it ran for the longest time.
There’s more to the story than this…but it’s too long already… Too many great players and great immortals to mention them all.
–
Jake
I’d actually like the to hear Kjartan’s story on how sloth began and why it ended up getting closed….
Calling out KJ!
Splork
Yeah, OK.
While I was an undergrad in California another guy at the school, Miikka something-or-other, was running a diku called Eltanin. I played this for about 6 months with a friend back in Texas (we had gone to high school together), and then while poking around on the internet I found the diku gamma 0.0 source was available. So, we decided we’d rather run a mud than play one. Neither one of us knew how to program very well, and only a little unix, and Sloth is where we learned.
I was stuck in Colonial Williamsburg over Christmas vacation with nothing much to do, and I wrote a whole bunch of areas. I think they were: BH, gnolls, BH sewer, jungle, garden, and sahaguin (which actually should be spelled “sahuagin” but I didn’t know that then). While I was doing that Geddy coded the multiclass system and some other changes from stock, I don’t remember what else now. Coding was fun, the comments were few and Danish. At one spot there was the comment “HVORFOR DET!?!”, it was many years before I figured out what that meant.
Sloth took off pretty quickly because we had original areas, and because there weren’t so many muds back then (this was early 1991, I think); I think within a year we had something like 30 players on regularly. A lot of these were people from our two schools.
We ran it until maybe 1995 when I was in grad school in Houston and Geddy was still in Austin. We had done piles of coding on it over the four years and also we and others had generated many areas. The player base was getting younger as more high-school kids got internet access. Also whinier. At some point we tweaked the backstab damage modifiers a bit, it set off an unbelievable storm of bitching on the board at the West Gate (there wasn’t a web site back then), and we said “screw this” and shut the mud down.
And that is Sloth I’s history. There’s a fictionalized version in the backstory accessible through this web page.
Heh, those were fun days. I remember there was a 4th creator, Lyrra, I think who left early. Geddy and Vom seemed to disagree regularly and if you think the gods are fickle now.. you should have known the original Vom (KJ is a bit calmer). Specficly, I think it was Ultimus or Blush who got the idea to kill the Bront. Apparently, the bront was never meant to be killed. When the 7 biggest players in the game managed to drag it down and make it a regular cycle, Vom got a little upset, changed the bront and pretty much dared them to kill it.
Everyone in the game level 20 and up grouped up to kill the ’new’ bronto. I think the first round we lost the top 4-6 tanks and found out that the bront had become a spellcaster who liked to throw around meteor swarm like candy. The pluthera of corpses and the crash shortly after convinced us not to try that again.
Say what you will about Splork, I haven’t seen him kill half the mud yet. :lol:
just been a total newbie (since i only started mudding late slothmud 3. How did slothmud 2 transist to slothmud 3. Any oldbies keen to tell this newbie about it ? :)
I got addicted to Sloth at the middle of Sloth 2. I remember my friends and I had a RPG group that played D&D and Cthulu, and one of them gave me my first computer, and Amiga with no hard drive and an 800 baud modem. This was way back in 1993 I believe. He knew a BBS that cattered to MUDS and introduced me to the concept, and he had played SlothMUD once before that night. So he showed me how to log on and gave me the PC, which I played on a little 13” B&W TV in my bedroom.
I remember such triumphent events such as when Strider hit 4x40 (way back before Avatar was a glimmer in anyone’s mind), and when Dawnfire finally did it. Back when it was a major event to do so.
Ahh, how fun it was to have to type group every round when you were in the Heal Order… clients? HA.. no such thing, telnet was the only way to play. I remember no website to get information off of. My cousin managed to get someone (I think Elsol or Remus) to email him a copy of an eqlist that the players passed around, which I still have a copy of buried somewhere in my Sloth binder.
I saw the sun set and rise many a day from over the top of my TV. I can say this MUD has come a long way since days of old, and I am proud to be a member of the current team of Admins (it only took me 12 years to get here, yay for me! :) ).
So from an old timer, and one of the newest members of the current Admin, I’d like to tip my hat to everyone who has come and gone that has kept this MUD going and made it one of the best MUDs on the web. To current immortals, and players aspiring to be immortals, let’s keep SlothMUD around for another 12 years ;) I’ll try to get my kids addicted to it as soon as I get some ;)
Sloth 2: Riverwind, 1/2 of Spawn, and 1/2 of Asreil
Sloth 3: Myst/Lestat/Xandora and Ode
And of course: Akasha
haha, in a way, akasha made me feel weird.
Asryal immortalized in less than 2 years of mud experience. But i will try to learn as much as possible..any others with sloth 1/sloth2 experience (these groups of pple tend to earn my respect :P)
Its honestly too long ago for me to remember how i got hooked up with sloth. I came in the middle of Sloth II, and quickly set up my mudbookie business :). Once sloth II closed, and sloth III opened up, i took a long break, and have been playing off an on (mostly on) ever since.
hmm where should i start?
Impz bugged me to post my experience so here goes…
I started mudding when I moved to the US for college….was at Peabody in baltimore, and Endor (aka Mosaix) showed me the game. Basically spent my nights mudding in the comp room (4 computers hardly makes a lab…) with Endor, and old-timers like Gimlet, adjutor and flushnut. At first I couldn’t grasp the concept of a text-based game so I didn’t really put much effort into really playing the game. Turned to pthievery, which I admit I got a great kick from. Ppl started kicking my ass whenever they saw me online.
Well, as for why I turned out to be such an asshole with total disregard for rules, here’s a story.
Once upon a time, there were 2 butt buddy immorts Smokin and Val (aka Fmh and…krusty?) For reasons unknown to almost everyone, they were thoroughly protected by Nia, and almost never got punished for anything they did that were against rules or protocol. One fine day, I was in a group led by Zarf and we pop me a nifty unholy reaver. Being the happy silly newbie that I was, I gossiped about it. So along comes Fmh who proceeds to charm me and take it away from me. Nia tells me tough luck coz charm is an in-game spell. About a week later, I charm a fellow mortal character and take his eq (silly me, choosing goose’s mortal to charm :P) and got wiped by nia. How’s that for double standards? From then on, I decide that the rules were a bunch of BS that didn’t apply to certain ppl who broke rules left right center and got applauded for it.
Seriously tho, I hated Nia, and still do.
I remember turning to soultraders for a while after sloth went down, coz it was basically sloth2, until some moron took the code and destroyed the game, turning it into a player-less mud. Came back to sloth, bitched initially about spellbooks and rent…played nonethless on and off, finally on now :) hoping i can keep my current streak of going 5 mths w/o getting wiped longer :)
Mustang/Al
Started playing in Fall of 95 as Erasia on SlothMUD II at the suggestion of a friend in college. At the time I was the head justice God on FieryMUD, but used Sloth as a home away from home to screw around. Grouped often with AQUAMAN, Midnight, and Froggy. Erasia’s stats sucked, but I was able to amass a decent amount of gold… when someone auctioned off a character named Maniac who had nice stats. I bought Maniac, and played Maniac until the end of Slothmud II grouping with Karma, Chaffee, Turbo, Dariel, Kirimasa, among others.
About the time FieryMUD lost all their playerfiles in some hard-drive crash of biblical proportions, SlothMUD III started, so I started Maniac again, same classorder, got real playable stats on first reroll, decided to stick around. Grouped every night for months and months with original Ghost who lead DWeb groups with Gara, Enea, Calibar, among others. Played addictively for years and got him to level 32 avatar.
I convinced myself that I wanted to stop playing mortal, so I immorted Maniac to build since I had always wanted to give back to the mud. I eventually got my hands on Agox through Jake’s brother Chris. Been playing Agox for a couple years now, and have just recently started Driven. I just can’t seem to be able to break the addiction. :wink:
wow, I shouldn’t have started this, make me feel like complete newbie :oops:
interesting stories though, I’ve never really heard so many about the early days of sloth
sorry russians, I cannot figure out how to add options to existing polls, if you can at all, someone pm me or something :p
Looks like “TMC/Mudconnect” have same effectiveness as “Happened across the website and got hooked”.. Do we still need voting though?
p.s. yes, Jake, i’ve voted yet. do it every day and a little more, so dont wipe me, plz :)
Going back down to Impz asking about the transition from Sloth2 to Sloth3, at the time it happened I was without internest access so I missed it. But it was truly dishearting at the time to finally get access returned and try to log onto Sloth and it wasn’t there. I can’t remember if there was anything at all there. I seem to remember the title screen coming up with a message of some sort saying Sloth would return shortly (but this may be a figment of my imagination, I can’t recall exactly). It was a year or or so before I actually logged back in again.
I’ve heard many stories about the final day of Sloth 2, and the Armagedon quest that took place. I’m also curious to hear a good story about that fateful night myself. Anyone who can entertain us with a summary of that night?
Akasha
[quote:cod4awth]I remember turning to soultraders for a while after sloth went down, coz it was basically sloth2, until some moron took the code and destroyed the game, turning it into a player-less mud. [/quote:cod4awth]
You have to give Kelley some credit dude. He taught himself to program in
C with that old jacked up SlothII code, and has turned it into something that
is so far radically departed from ANYTHING I have seen on Sloth. As far as
I am concerned, Soulmud is ready for Graphics. That being said, I won’t play
because
a: no playerbase and
b: i am far to lazy to learn about the 231386531286523496523497623496 new skills implemented. Sloth is my home on the internet I guess and
will continue to be while it is up and I have fingers.
Mirax wrote: Looks like “TMC/Mudconnect” have same effectiveness as “Happened across the website and got hooked”.. Do we still need voting though?
It may appear to be skewed like this Mirax, but a lot of new players have admited to learning about us through TMC and similiar voting systems. It only takes 1 new player who found us on TMC to tell 5 or his/her friends, and the Poll becomes strewed towards “A friend told me” as compared to learning about it on TMC. So 1 TMC source can lead to multiple word of mouth leads.
Not trying to change the thread here, just pointing out how important voting is even those this Poll might make it appear otherwise.
Akasha
This is a whole new generation of tank and stabbers and grippers
beginning right now..
“I remember I started back in'05 on SlothIII right before it went down
and became SlothIV, I was playin a little ma dr ne ba and didnt know
I needed cleric to get by. I told all my buddies that I play xbox with…”
I can just see it now
To make a short story long…
Blackmore was my first ever character, on a tinymud, probably in early 89. In the summer of 90, some friends and I built our own muck, and so began Brigadoon. We set some loose rules regarding coding and building to bring people over. MUCKs had a coding language that anyone could use to build cool objects, assuming you gave them the coding bit, and we gave it to anyone who wanted it. A month or two later, during the course of about a week, the top 3 muds all shut down for various reasons, and everyone came to us. Eventually, having a minimum of 50 whiners on at a time at all times got to us, and we didn’t really handle things very courteously, if we handled them at all. Eventually, we got sick of all the hassles, and I started hanging out in other places. It was during this time that I played around on an LP that some of my friends were running. That was the first time I tried a combat style mud.
I was net-less for a few years after graduating from college, and when I came back, I found the same group that I had hung out with on the old muds and mucks, and started mudding again. On a boring night one weekend, I was looking for a game to play, and a player named Satan (Plough) was playing on some diku (not sure if it was S2 or ST, but I suspect it was ST), so I logged in to see what it was like. I played some for a few weeks, then I died to some weresharks and couldn’t find anyone to help, got frustrated and quit.
A few years later, I was bored again, and Plough was playing on S3 and suggested I try it. I don’t really remember when that was, but I remember being annoyed that several days a week, I didn’t get to play for very long because I went over to visit my gf - who I’ve been married to for over 4.5 years. I really wish I had logs of those early sessions, just to get an idea of when it was.
I started playing in 2001ish, when I was introduced to Sloth by my two brothers, Chaos (Confusion, Prometheus, Zalasta, Dann) and Darktemplar (Surge, several others whose names i’ve forgotten). I started playing a Ele (wa cl ma th), had no idea about what was good eq or good strats, and didn’t like groups. After about a year and a half I got bored when I realized I still hadn’t passed 30 prime, so I took a break. A 2.5 year break.
I returned then because I realized that this was still a good game, just that I didn’t know how best to play it. I also realized that I had done some stupid things with Ele, and wanted to start over. So, I created Malison, figuring a mage prime would be more active. Since then I’ve created Klein to see what valk was like (and how a thief plays), and Lumengrid (<1 week old, not much played) to be a tank when I get around to finding him good stats
Well lemme see, I firdt started playing way back on SlothI, back when it was still run by Geddy, so that woulda been fall 1992 or spring 1993. Happened across Sloth III by looking for it on TMC just to see if it was still around 10 years later. That was a year and 1/2 ago and I’m just as hooked now as I was way back when.
Ah, well if anyone is interested I played sloth I for quite a while and even finally got a SoJ the day before the wipe, being that I had played several muds up to immort or very high atleast only to have them disappear on me, I didn’t wanna start on sloth again fearing another wipe… (what a long sentence!!) Anyway, I played sloth 2 after a year or so but the pthieving at that time was outta hand, totally ruined the game iho, so after being pthieved several times over a couple of monthes I had had enough… then a couple of years later and playing a couple sloth clone muds, I saw it on the mud list for zmud and checked it out, course I was instantly hooked again :) anyway been playing 3 for several years and got some cool punks to play here too, or atleast 1
Anyway my sad story revealed….
Biff
bleh! I started back in 1997. after being retired multiple times :)
I finally just gave in to temptation.. sincker 7 years to 3x40 cackle
I have Plato to blame for my addiction…
CURSE YOU CHARLES!!!!
hehehe
:twisted:
Auto.. the splorkenator!
I started I believe fall of ‘92. I must have had a ‘386 with a slow modem in my room at Purdue, and other students nearby had laptops and faster computers. We used to hit the computer labs similar to other stories on here. We had a group of people that played including Tigris, Dodger, Palamon(?) and several others that I don’t remember. After Sloth1 I never connected to Sloth2 until real late into it’s life. I think I had maybe a 1x40 before the end. I started again when Sloth3 came up and I’ve fallen into a pattern that I guess is normal for me…play regularly for a few months then not connect at all for a few months.
Charles
PS. Oh I guess I should apologize for unleashing Auto on all of you.
:)