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City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included)

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Developer:
Darren N Lory
Publisher:
Formsmatter
Platforms:
Windows
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About This Game

City of Ages Code: Safari [53000+ Epic downloads at steampowered as of 2017-2025+]

[framework Visual Basic + 80% SQL Transactions + Win 11 vbDLLs approved by Microsoft]

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Edger Allen Poe was paid a mizzly sum by todays monies with full rights purchased away from him for less than two hundred dollars. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe was declared a masterpiece in ITS OWN RIGHTS.

This is my Masterpiece I made nearly 900 cdn here more then Edgar Allen Poe with his,

welcome to a different form of gaming, a poetic one. Enjoy a true floating port technology server with a built in game server that is uncrashable, its SQL-Server (console command driven) and its own mitigation server (anti DDOS attacks) and all yours for FREE.

This is the most advanced 2.5 Dimensioned RPG ever developed and will continue development, and it saves on your graphics card because it doesn't need one. You can play other games while playing this game, and we all like to do that as we wait for graphical games to launch our 3D virtual playgrounds. City of Ages' game design is similar to top graphical games of the same concept, some laptops do not have a graphical card, here is a text variation to toy with. This game also has Artifical Intelligence built right into the server code. City of Ages' game will slowly offer you mini games while you play, agg you on for fights the next time you log in and many more AI-like features!

Our finished client allows you to make macros, edit buttons, you have timers that repeat any command including your Attack target commands [no grind no beating on your keyboard required], or use timers to practice your spells FOR YOU, does the word IDLE game mean anything to you all? Yes it DOES! Many like games they can play all at one time, your PC game is running, your mobile game is running, idle games are fun for this reason!

Its a really great different type of game we have bitmap graphics you can tweek, its TEXTCraft really. This type of game is a great addition to a collector's game list!

Play it, I MADE IT!

Escapes

FLEE command

Automatic Emergency Beamout for Captains of a Starship

Camoflauge / Invisibility / Sneak away

Just moving fast with Numlock 

Graphical User Interface Design:
Here are special commands a graphical client would require:
FM ON OFF STATUS (Filter-mode reduces unnecessary text that screen readers cannot decode to read) [see also: config combat -/+]

GM ON OFF STATUS (graphics detailed mode using system GUIDs)

SM ON OFF STATUS (scaremode if special-nearby mobiles will randomly aggressive you)

DD shows the day description, night is shown too if not the same, with zoom mode

MAP

XXX

BATTLESTATUS [noverbose] tracks all mobiles attacking you or after you - such as raid mobs

AC/HR/DR/NAR/SLAY

FACTION DATA

ATMOZ

PETS

OBJECTS

MOBS

PLYR rx ry rz facing-graphicsid this is controlled by your client, run alone for the complete necessary room report on players

SCAN

LOCATION

AREA

* New commands to try:

When SLEEPing try to DREAM and get a guard quest

Do not nightmare, you may experience the learning points of the Black Plague!

What was that about learning a point to train with?

Its a quest too, just an annoying one. Even bad stuff in the realm leads you to water.

- SCRY (creates a tornado item and a few pentagram items)

- CHAIN and BOLT attack commands

Tip: Make a druid orc or mage orc to try all three!

Immersive Points - Main Activities

Mimics are a heavy part of our system; during an eclipse drop an

object [from a pentagram] with a mimic identified on it and then exorcise them!

Our game is incredibly intricate this way. MAP command if you care to see

where you are going, now with a realm weather report

Heavy and Advanced EMOTE system which brings in all your pet emote

commands into one easy to use command

New Years, Halloween, Azzie Day and other event days have

celebrated emote especially at City of Ages Centre

FACTIONS are most important to use for thieves or player warn paths to

prevent sickness from other factions you are not matched with.

COLONISTS, beam them around the realm to fight for you, SS command

Alien Abduction extremely rare quest, drop a lollypop on them to win

Starships in a true X Y Z in a Universe of Ages

- ride your starship to the Guarding x y z locations, spend fuel for cofg

different damage causing or healing or static Nebulas

Black Plague looms!

Healing Myst prevails!

I ask you, are you more of a Thief or are you a Guard at heart

all player classes can steal at different costs

We have slaying weapons and now more to slay with:

Missile weapons and Arcane kinetic bolts can slay anything in the realm,

with Guard quests and Object hunts we took some grind out of RPG this way.

Crafting No leveling required, full access to the forge and crafting system

Spell Crafts which you learn from TEACHERS of the realm

Craft Transmute tables

FORGE command with easy to earn crowns of glory, items rare on their own as well

Fast Tracking:

Waystones to travel you far and fast lie everywhere

MARK n RECALL as standard issue commands

Stargates back n forth to a true Solar system x1 y1 z1 to destination x2 y2 z2

City of Ages has four parapets with Waystones

Magic Words ie. say musho poiet

AREA command

LOCATION command

Door Games:

Armegaddon

SHOWTIME

Guess Word

Surprises from Sanded Beckon Birdy Portraits

Arcade game Packmon

Morphs: [some morphs have their own reserved emotes ie. FANG for Vampyre]
WITCHLOCKE [is a new triggered morph when lazy or playing a thief too hard]

Vampyre

Werewolf

Plantform

Cyborg

...also many poof animal transformations

Puzzles:

Merge cards

Ankh ring, one ring does rule them all

Quest Engines:
(besides the standard give quest item to npc we have)

Capture the Clan Flags (when held you are open to PvP)

Oracle personal assigned level appropriate quest

Chase the object

Chase the npc

Tornado SMACKDOWN from SCRYing

random Thief chests

atmoz-death-roulette REVENGE ON HIGH LEVELS

the GURU

random GUARDING quest

Artifical Intelligence Boosted:

Auto-Clan system, no need for an immortal to run the mud anymore, GO AI !!!

Thief code

Guard code

RAID mobs

Hunting Mode

Gambling:

True Roulette wheel

Horse racing simulation

Marble City miniCasino

portable Dice and Deck of Cards

Pets:

Emote to or Pemote control your pet or Evolve and level your pets.

can Disarm traps now

Dragon Breath on enemies now

Emotes:

For Role-play we have advanced EMOTES for you and your mountable pets.

Gameplay:

You begin your adventure with medieval weapons including cross/bows/slings and bolts/arrows/and rocks, and move slowly into modern weaponry. There are machineguns/hand phasers and ammo. Starships are fully loaded with weapons/shields and mines, use them as a house or beam down to just about any location in the realm. Stock-market, Golfing [its hilarious to golf grenades around the realm], Stargates, Starships, tons of different types of Quest engines, like our infamous ARMEGADDON system quest. As well as normal types of quests, and many built-in Door games. Door games include, a Mini-Casino, a real to life Roulette game, a fun Horse Racing game, one playable Arcade game, GUESS WORD, Dice, and a Deck of Cards. For Role-play we have advanced EMOTES for you and your mountable pets. The creatures of the realm go on city Raids, and will eventually mark you as a bounty over time and then they will try to catch you off guard. Then heck, cause more trouble, go capture all the clan flags for better gains, steal flags from each other!

Great for those new to Mudding and especially those that played Internet MUDS, and BBS Door games. We have an exact unique identifer system, as well as a perception machine to intice you to read areas with pictures matching by words. This MUD also allows you to link/import your own pictures and sounds, which is not included, for you to find and optionally create. There are loads of free pictures and free sounds found on the web. One of the windows will not work if Graphical User Interface exact mode status is set to [GM off].

Note about Scaremode: SM [ON/OFF/STATUS]: Toggles your scaremode for those that want to chill more, the idea was to keep you moving around the map, invisibility and sneak prevented special-nearby mobiles from falling into hunting mode (and still does), it was the main reason for SNEAK command being movement oriented as opposed to duration timeout based. This is now optional.

The MUD is fully finished and fully programmed to automatically run your quests for you.

Happy Hunting!

Technical Details

Special Command(s

Lon Loff to line feed up a line

An EXE file is a Compressed HEX version of human readable code [32bit]:

Server: 11,452,416 bytes native exe

Client: 5,749,646 bytes native exe

the above is the true EXE file size, that is a lot of code, a lot of fast running SQL!

Server and Client use a true X,Y,Z coordinate system giving real depth to the Mudding environment.

Windows 11 and Windows 2019 Server, both easily installed Access 97 sr1 and Visual Basic 6 sr6.

With the City of Ages Client which also comes with this product: You can change the telnet ip address under Tools -> Port.

Now you can remote in on your friends City of Ages Server or place your server such as the server farm: ovhcloud

Blowtorch or bMudclient for Android, their free code is out too

I included blowtorch compatable mage.xml druid.xml blowtorch works fine if you export your changes to your profile triggers buttons

Mudrammer or Mudmaster for iOS

Never tried this telnet client to make any defaults

Join 100s of MUD players at redditz group: /r/MUD

DefCON detects for lag coming from hardware troubles and is an auto reboot system, so test your servers prowess by boot running from your StartUp folder.

Thanks to free AI Imaging Art we will be providing all the new art for our entire game for FREE, because its free to me your Immortal of this game.

Filter toggle mode: Visually impaired may use screen readers, and permanent CONFIG for Area and Combat on or simplified modes.

You are being Matched/or NOT from the server: The coaServer allows use to each person with three character connections using coa client>Tools>Run another Instance of the coaClient, however you can then be shown to everyone else online who your new characters are. This is to reveal to everyone whom is who, prevents salty people from having too much fun.

Supportive Languages: Microsoft Visual Basic 6, and twinBASIC

Huge thank you to Rochester, Washington state for 23 years of beta testing. SteveH RichieV NateD DiannaM

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User Reviews

Mostly Positive
11 user reviews
73%
Positive
18 hrs at review
Recommended

never really got into MUDs before, but I am absolutely loving this game! the game balances exploration and combat perfectly. it also does a very fine job of keeping things fresh, the amount of emotes one can choose from is almost overwhelming realistic-like seriously, players can select from more emotes than I've ever expressed in my actual life. really dig the environment as a whole. overall this game is very entertaining and possibly addicting. i plan on getting this for a couple of my friends for the holidays.

18 helpful 1 funny
56 min at review
Not Recommended

Cant recommend this game. Seems pretty cool, but its too difficult to get into. When I play a MUD, i want to launch it, make my character, read what the games about and get into it. I dont want to spend an entire day trying to figure how to do simple things like make the emulator go fullscreen. The hour or so I have in the game isnt even me playing. It was me either trying to get into the game server, which isnt too difficult. Had a problem where I had to relaunch the client 2 to 3 times so I can connect to the server. Also had a problem where my character on the server got deleted, which was strange. Or, itd be me trying to find out the UI, trying to get it go fullscreen or whatever. So this isnt a review on the gameplay, from the other reviews Ive read, people said it was good gameplay and didnt go beyond that. But for me, Im getting my refund and checking back when the games had a few updates.

16 helpful 2 funny
6 min at review
Recommended

This is awesome! You can run your own mud server and basically host your own online world. I love it. I have been looking for a mud server to run for a long time. This one is easy to set up and works perfectly. Thanks to the dev for this!

6 helpful
55 hrs at review
Recommended

This MUD is set in a post-apocolyptic world. Many different areas to explore, real time roulette, level approriate quests, 5 different clans and many hidden areas. I found more aggro mobs than were here when I played many years ago but that's ok, keeps me on my toes. I noticed the soothsayers are gone which is a bit disapointing, but Bertha is still in her cage. Houses are available for sale, as are spaceships which you can fly to other worlds. I've been playing for almost 2 weeks and am close to level 25. This is thanks to the armageddon feature which awards players for their kills in a certain amount of time. I do recommend this game to veteran and new players. Make MUDs Great Again!!

4 helpful
23 min at review
Recommended

I played more than 9 minutes i was getting high level, this is a great mud and we can host it thanks to this awesome dev ;)

3 helpful
3 hrs at review
Recommended

got the game... played for a coupla hours... small update occured, now can not play the game, error in installation and Notron picks up a Virus? Fix it!!

1 helpful 1 funny
8 min at review
Recommended

Always interesting to see BBS style software on steam.

1 funny

System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: XP/7/8/10/11
  • Processor: any
  • Memory: 100 MB RAM
  • Graphics: any
  • Storage: 99 MB available space
  • Sound Card: any
  • Additional Notes: Fully finished game! Server requires minimal resources and can Sleep itself when inactive. Any device that supports Telnet can connect to the Telnet Server. Telnet Server and Client provided works on any Windows OS.

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: XP/7/8/10/11
  • Processor: any
  • Memory: 100 MB RAM
  • Graphics: any
  • Storage: 99 MB available space
  • Sound Card: any
  • Additional Notes: Fully finished game! Server requires minimal resources and can Sleep itself when inactive. Any device that supports Telnet can connect to the Telnet Server. Telnet Server and Client provided works on any Windows OS.

FAQ

How much does City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included) cost?

City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included) is completely FREE to play. You can download and play it without any purchase.

What are the system requirements for City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included)?

Minimum: Minimum: OS: XP/7/8/10/11 Processor: any Memory: 100 MB RAM Graphics: any Storage: 99 MB available space Sound Card: any Additional Notes: Fully finished game! Server requires minimal resources and can Sleep itself when inactive. Any device that supports Telnet can connect to the Telnet Server. Telnet Server and Client provided works on any Windows OS. Recommended: Recommended: OS: XP/7/8/10/11 Processor: any Memory: 100 MB RAM Graphics: any Storage: 99 MB available space Sound Card: any Additional Notes: Fully finished game! Server requires minimal resources and can Sleep itself when inactive. Any device that supports Telnet can connect to the Telnet Server. Telnet Server and Client provided works on any Windows OS.

What platforms is City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included) available on?

City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included) is available on Windows PC.

Is City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included) worth buying?

City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included) has 73% positive reviews from 11 players.

When was City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included) released?

City of Ages: Picture Supportive Text MUD (server and client included) was released on Oct 13, 2017.

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