Re: Monster Island

From: ataft@infinet.com (Ashley Taft)

Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 19:14:26 +0000

R Vine (u2k22@teach.cs.keele.ac.uk) wrote:
: As a (IMHO) veteren player of Monster Island with 120ish turn under my
: British belt I'd like to invite comments from players both young and
: old on the way the game has progressed over the years.

120 turns?  Nice!  I've run 96 turns...But have 48 make-up turns to
go...It's gonna take years to catch up!

As per how the game has progressed?  Leaps and bounds!  When I
started, and I was one of the first players in the game, things seemed
rather sparse.  Things were hard to find.  Groups were a but dreams.
Magic Spells?  Heh!  Not for a while, yet... ;)

Things have fleshed out immensely since then.  Mind you, the
young'uns got it easy.There is stuff my Furrcat wil never have access to,
due to there not BEING a racial ceremony when I started!  Stuff like that.

It's come a long way.  It has a long way to go.  Monster Island is a
game that can maintain interest over an extended period of time, and
there is NO RISK of it becoming a Money Pit like Beyond the Stellar
Empire! ;)

: I'd be particularly interested in hearing the views on how the designer's
: wish to make the Island a large 'community' have been viewed as successful.

Community?  Um...Are we talking about Jack making it necessary to
slaughter other players to advance to higher levels with the
Gods/Demi-Gods of the game? ;)  I sometimes wonder if the 'Community'
might be more akin to a support group formed out of necessity! :)

: Also, with a growing number of players on the net perhaps we can introduce
: some cross-fertilisation between games represented here...

Do you get the eMonster?  It's a wonderful newsletter about MI,
distributed around the 25th of each month.  I forget the email address,
but you can get back issues (thereby getting the address) from
ftp.cp.tu.tudelft.nl

: See ya.

Have fun!  And remember...For hours of amusement, hold the
fa...uh... don't 'release' until you are at a Far Inn.  Let it go by
itself there...Worth a chuckle, or even a guffaw, at any rate... ;)

Lord SkyDiver the Dust-Covered Furrcat

References

Monster Island
u2k22@teach.cs.keele.ac.uk (R Vine)
Mon, 16 May 1994 16:19:10 +0000

Referenced By

Monster Island
u2k22@teach.cs.keele.ac.uk (R Vine)
Mon, 16 May 1994 16:19:10 +0000