Yeah, let’s reply to this!
Economy
Yeah, I can totally see realms wanting to have an economy, a common currency, and a way to trade.
In more MUD like realms (once I can support such things), it would probably be some actual currency that is tied to your character, that you have to earn through dungeon crawling. It would probably be something supported by LUA scripts.
And in realms like Wolfery, it could just be just something that would be part of the lore, without any actual game system behind it; it is all roleplay.
But I still wonder if we really need that? Nimbats don’t deal with money. Dragons might want gold. And protogens might… eh… do something digital, I guess.
For now, let’s roleplay, and see if something more common emerges!
Rules on Marketing
Are you asking me for an elevator pitch? Oh dear!
No. I am not good with that. I just use to call it something like “A textual roleplaying environment in a world that you can build yourself.” . But really. Most everyone can give it a better sales pitch than me.
Or are you asking if we (as a community) should write together something?
For me, that sales pitch is sort of what I wrote on the welcoming screen:
https://wolfery.com/welcome/
Community Suggestions
- Music - Has actually been a thought of mine too, that you can set background music to a room which players can opt-in on listening to. However, there are both technical and legal hurdles for that, so it would probably have to wait.
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Petting stations - It’s @Raeth, isn’t it ?
- Community notice board - See this thread
- Patreon - I have been looking (not much, but some) for some artist with a suitable style who would be able to take on recurring requests for things like art for rooms and puppets. If you have suggestions, I’d happily take them! But my ideas for the future are not as much using Patreon (or other similar services), but rather to build a supporter payment system as part of the over arching Mucklet project. Though, my thought has been to first focus on this realm, and once we have most of the features we need, I could go on with building this supporter payment system + functions to create your own realms.