What's your story with games in general? What made you play LE?

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If you want MUD, what you are looking for is Discworld MUD. I believe it is still online.
Entirely made by volunteers, best community ever (only game for which I actually bothered going to real-life conventions).
And to this day, hands down the deepest, largest, best written game I have ever seen, in any category.
Fully customisable player housing, players run newspapers, elected player-run city councils (actually making meaningful decisions), unlimited levelling, the depth and the amount of possibilities was simply mind blowing. Only text-based can give that much scale and freedom.

I probably shouldn’t be proud of it, but my main character online time on the disc ended up being well over a year…

I did try a few other MUDs back then, but Discworld dwarfed them all both in scale (it is absolutely HUGE) and in quality.

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That’s super interesting, I will have to check it out!

I can’t imagine a solid year of playtime playing anything. That is wild. Did they send you a plaque? :open_mouth:

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Ah, but you see, that’s the whole point, hard to even imagine nowadays: there was no “them”.
The game was entirely run by volunteers, anyone could do a bit of coding or writing or moderation depending on their skills and time.

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When some of us play games, we commit. A year of actual play time is 8,760 hours, makes my ~2.8k in LE look decidedly paltry.

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Bro, if I was a long-time member of the community, I would’ve sent it to you myself. lol

Yeah, @Llama8 - I think my highest playtime on any game is 1150 hours. That distinction goes to Battle Brothers. There’s still cracks it made in my mental stability that have yet to heal, and that was sometime last year.

Maybe I would’ve gotten there if I would’ve allowed myself to play something like Civ 5 or 6, but I have avoided it and games like it for that reason. Genuinely afraid of what the consequences would be for my free time, haha.

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I remember playing Utopia , it was a web based kingdom building strategy game , where you attacked and competed with other people in real time. The game didn’t stop when you logout .You sent your soldiers and they came back in xx hours , people attacked you while you were sleeping , etc . I was so hooked up that i remember setting the alarm at 3 or 4 AM , just to send my soldiers again when they were available. After 2-3 eras I simply decided it was too much , and went back to games that were only active when you wanted , and not 24/7

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I’d think my highest play time was probably either Sacred 1&2 or SWTOR, I played those for years solidly…

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Yeah, I played Ogame which was similar though you could set the speed of your fleets to come back when you were online. Still quite similar though.

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I just noticed that my Steam playtime for Grim Dawn says 1700 hours, but I don’t see how that could be right. Not sure what the heck happened with that. I had to have been afk or asleep for a lot of those. Can’t imagine I have 1000 hours in that game.

I only have maybe 6 max level characters. And hardly any best-in-slot type items on any of them. Of the 6 or 7-ish crazy endgame bosses, I’ve killed two. Couldn’t even imagine killing the hardest one. So yeah, there’s no way that’s correct.

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