More harsh than ‘Harshlands’.
Takes place in a desolate desert world where survival is quite difficult.
The harshness seems uniform: I’ve seen no evidence of any sort of preferential treatment. Everyone suffers just the same. (That’s a compliment, and a joke. Ha ha)
The application process requires approval, which keeps vaguely interested people out. This helps weed out the poor RPers…but I stress “helps”.
Now, to survive takes a certain amount of intelligence and/or luck. That selling point is true. So, if you don’t excel at either, you shouldn’t play. If you want a “test”, this is as good as I’ve found in a MUD.
On the other hand, to “survive” and to “roleplay well” are not inherently intertwined. Intelligence/luck (survival) and roleplay ability (imagination) have very little to do with each other.
So contrary to what you might hear, this is not a den of roleplaying excellence.
It’s what every decent MUD is, in that respect: There are a few GREAT roleplayers, there are a lot of good roleplayers, there are a lot of mediocre roleplayers, there are a fair amount of poor roleplayers, and there are a few wretched ones.
I do have a more-than-vague suspicion that there are SOME people that play because they’re nasty IRL and use this as an outlet (hey, as long as it’s in character) and a very few that play because they’re sadists. But the majority are relatively sane.
Written while playing actively and in a good fcken mood, so take this above any prop sh1t you read anywhere else.
Ai!
-Puppy >.< Yip!