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Excuse me im srry if this sounds newbie of me but in new to this and the FAQs wont give me info that will help me i started a small mud on my own computer and i have no idea where to go from here i have almost no c experence and dont know much but if you guys can help me id be very greatful.

namely at this time i wanna know witch files to edit and what to do with them so that i can add a cool little picture at the start:)
but other then that i jsut need to know stuff the faqs tells me but with better detail(i think the faqs needs to explain a little more).


Thankyou,
Thomas

We would love to help you. But first we need to know what codebase you are using. There may be a greetings.txt somewhere in the MUD's Directorys, or it may included in another help file. To further assist you we need the name of the Codebase that you are using so we can answer your question more accurately.

umm as in codebase do you mean like the little rom thing it has me run?
well i downloaded it and ill describe it if it helps cause i stink at remembers things ok i downloaded it from this site.
it was a zip file and it had a file called rom in it and it had all the files to have a rom based game.
other then that i dont know:S
well the area folder has shutdown file and all the areas and the area.lst i think.


Thankyou,
thomas

Brother,

If you are thinking about starting your own mud you might want to do a little more research. It is a bad sign when you don't know the name of the codebase that you are using.

Ok, now if you have hedit or a helpfile OLC editor
try typing "hedit greeting"

You may also want to try looking for a help directory
and trying to find the greeting.txt there.

I have also seen the the greeting under the MOTD file.

Once again this depends on the codebase that you are using.
Please be more specific so that I may further assist you :)

ok listen this is my research tell me a site that goes into specific details and ill tell you i dont even know what codebase is. tell me what the codebases are and btw i checked for those files and found none so it aint those i am realy good at learning but nothing much on mud making is out there. can you guys refer me to a site that explains indetail about mud makeing or anything to get me started im srry to waste your time if thats what you see it as but this is what i want to do its fun as ive seen i just want to know something about it.
Think of it like this a person who persues a dream but doesnt know much about it he has to learn but wait nothing to learn from. ends up haveing to go on the fly. asks ppl questions they dont know so he goes to a faqs site doesnt help him in the least. thats me.

Thanks,
Thomas

I apologize, I didn't pick up the ROM mentioned above.
Well you can start off by doing a search for ROM, you can goto google or you favorite search engine and do a search on
"ROM MUD Codebase". This should give you a lot more links on the codebase that you are working with. You can also look at the below listed web sites for great research tools.

1. http://www.Kyndig.com
2. http://www.topmudsites.com
3. http://www.mudconnect.com
4. http://www.mudranger.com
5. http://mudworld.inetsolve.com

Ok to change the Greeting or the wizlist list you must go into area/ directory and open rom.ARE file, this the main files where the Wizlist, Greeting, and other help files are kept. If you look throught this file you will see ~GREETING
and the current greeting following it. just change it to what you would like. Now you might have to manually Open it with Notepad or your favorite Text editor. I hope that this has helped you.

Have you read this - MUDs FAQ ? That answers some of your questions, like 'what is a codebase'. Best to browse those items, so you have more idea of what the various words mean.