|
|
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| − | Tsunami History
| |
| − | ------------------------------------------------------
| |
| − | MUD Name: Tsunami I
| |
| − | Time: 1990ish
| |
| − | Administration: ??
| |
| − | Other important wizards/players: ??
| |
| − | History: Tsunami I founded. Predates any known
| |
| − | Player or Wizard currently involved in
| |
| − | the project.
| |
| − | Time: Early 1991
| |
| − | History: Extensive Rewrite of Mudlib
| |
| − | Administration: Atusko, Strahan, Mirabolus
| |
| − | Other important wizards/players: ??
| |
| − | Important Cheeses: The Original Monster Guild
| |
| − | Details: A complex skills system was implemented.
| |
| − | Much of the early world written by Atsuko;
| |
| − | skill handler written primarily by Mirabolus.
| |
| − | spring 1991. Original monster guild (of
| |
| − | which no code remains, though some names and
| |
| − | concepts do) written by Basher.
| |
| | | | |
| − | MUD Name: Tsunami II
| |
| − | Time: Spring/Summer, 1991
| |
| − | History: Due to a dissagreement among the wizards
| |
| − | on the MUD, Tsunami at it's original site
| |
| − | was shut down, to re-open somewhat later as
| |
| − | Valkyrie Prime, while tsunami reappeared as
| |
| − | Tsunami II
| |
| − | Administration: Tsunami II: Strahan, Atsuko
| |
| − | Valkyrie Prime: Mirabolus, Basher
| |
| − | Other Important Wizards: Whiplash, Dainia, Krago,
| |
| − | Keela, Tandem, Blackhawke
| |
| − | Feared Players: Valkyrie Prime- Moonglum, Darmo
| |
| − | Tsunami II- Beelzebub, Skyblade,
| |
| − | Paldin, Blackthorn, Darkhosis
| |
| − | Other People: Demian, Deth (Now Sauron), Aristotle,
| |
| − | Zenith, Corpse, Muffin, Rogath Samuel,
| |
| − | Shadowdragon
| |
| − | Important Cheeses: Valkyre Prime: Anarchists's guild
| |
| − | (in which you could PK people while
| |
| − | dead) 'do blast' -- allowed casting
| |
| − | as fast as you could type the
| |
| − | machinegun (repeats 1 command
| |
| − | 10 times) -- see 'do blast'
| |
| − | Tsunami II: Reset scrolls (force a
| |
| − | room to reset), The White and Black
| |
| − | lords (see reset scrolls), 'do blast'
| |
| − | -- see above, sword of demons, gate
| |
| − | to filenames (gate into a wiztoy,
| |
| − | anyone?)
| |
| − | Time: December, 1991
| |
| − | Details: Disagreement between Strahan and Mirabolus
| |
| − | wound up with Strahan setting up some hacking
| |
| − | programs and taking over VP; complaints to
| |
| − | the university wound up with all muds being
| |
| − | banned (there were 3 or 4 at the site).
| |
| − |
| |
| − | MUD Name: Tsunami III
| |
| − | Time: Early 1992
| |
| − | History: Opened at a site where remote access was not
| |
| − | allowed.
| |
| − | Administration: Aristotle, Armitage, Redsteel, Tarel
| |
| − | Other Important Wizards: Wolfpack, Dealer, Marriard,
| |
| − | Ivory, Magius, Grimsteel
| |
| − | Feared Players: Rogue, Wynter, Kano, Grendel, Lucifer
| |
| − | Other People: Furgh, Mordred
| |
| − | Important Cheeses: Power of spells increased as the
| |
| − | modifier decreased below the spell
| |
| − | cost. wimpydir set to cast a spell,
| |
| − | such as heal -15
| |
| − | Details: Introduction of Monk Class, and the Mainland.
| |
| − | Wars reimplemented through a daemon that could
| |
| − | be voted upon every 4 hours instead of once a
| |
| − | week as on Tsunami II, Level determined by total
| |
| − | experience not total stats, Lockers added
| |
| − | Time: August 1992
| |
| − | History: IP routing program installed on machine outside
| |
| − | of firewall results in sudden influx new players.
| |
| − | Administration: Same as before plus Deth
| |
| − | Other Important Wizards: Darkangel, Homey, Wildcat,
| |
| − | Xystron
| |
| − | Feared Players: Demian, Einstein, Ramirez, Boltthrower,
| |
| − | Sepultura
| |
| − | Other People: Skye, Snotvark, Miyu, Strider, Tajen,
| |
| − | Conan (YALP!!)
| |
| − | Important Cheeses: Combat boots/Blast gloves=unlimited
| |
| − | skills anyone? Homey's Area (Free
| |
| − | stealth boots jambiya like item
| |
| − | etc...) debit card bug would add your
| |
| − | bank balance to you if the transaction
| |
| − | fails, Troll Regenerate combined with
| |
| − | quickheal made it nearly impossible to
| |
| − | die, Manacles (carry players around).
| |
| − | Details: Monster class added, Bards coded but never
| |
| − | implemented except as a test character. Feint and
| |
| − | Forge finally distinguish Warriors from all other
| |
| − | classes. Strike added after 40 minute fight between
| |
| − | two high level monks unable to damage eachother due
| |
| − | to toughness skill, Players may own their own shops,
| |
| − | Arena coded.
| |
| − | Time: October 26, 1992
| |
| − | History: Administration at site learn of IP routing program and
| |
| − | turn off the MUD the same day.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | MUD Name: Tsunami IV
| |
| − | Time: December 20, 1992
| |
| − | History: Site donated by Seszesk player on Tsunami III
| |
| − | Administration: Wildcat, Dealer, Deth, Seszesk (Later
| |
| − | Clarion), Kreator, Joram
| |
| − | Other Important Wizards: Wolfpack, Aristotle, Loki, Spec,
| |
| − | Deathknight, Acrist
| |
| − | Feared Players: Corwyn, Hiek, Kumite, Songko, Blood,
| |
| − | Cystic, Nocturnus, Bungle, Einstein,
| |
| − | Anhur, Stalker
| |
| − | Other Notable People: Brandon, Papasmurf, Dulcinea, Opel,
| |
| − | Slapstick, Miraj and his 9 other 19th level
| |
| − | chars, Charon, Hero, Daghdha
| |
| − | Important Cheeses: Monks receiving full AC armour in wars,
| |
| − | Delayed Backstab, Cystic's Client, Adventurers,
| |
| − | Poison Skill (Only skill to this day to go against
| |
| − | a stat and not against another skill), Unlimited
| |
| − | bonus to spell modifiers and instant spells
| |
| − | (Who hits cast blast +MAX first wins), give
| |
| − | dice to player/player can't leave the room
| |
| − | Details: Bards added, Weapon types introduced, Dealer expands
| |
| − | his area making it just obscenely large, Shout Censor
| |
| − | added, Casting time to spells added, limit to modifier
| |
| − | in spells (see above), Adventurers introduced as an Early
| |
| − | system of what to do once you hit level 19.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | MUD Name: Tsunami V
| |
| − | Time: July 1993
| |
| − | History: Tsunami mudlib growing bloated and stagnant, drive to
| |
| − | rewrite it in Native Mode under MudOS driver
| |
| − | Administration: Wildcat, Dealer, Deathknight, Wolfpack, Clarion
| |
| − | Other Important Wizards: Vaugner, Avatar, Zane, Kirsand, Glade,
| |
| − | Tajen, Cowl
| |
| − | Feared Players: Never opened for playing
| |
| − | Other People: Never opened to the public
| |
| − | Important Cheeses: None.
| |
| − | Details: Home of the one new skill system every 3 days. Began
| |
| − | as a stock TMI mudlib, but quickly took on a Tsunami
| |
| − | shape. Domains were introduced primarlly as wizards
| |
| − | who knew eachother would work together on a set of areas.
| |
| − | Mudlib was never finished or playtested, many of it's ideas
| |
| − | eventually wound up in Tsunami
| |
| − | Time: Novemember 17, 1993
| |
| − | History: Pressures on Seszesk from higher ups causes Tsunami IV to
| |
| − | be shutdown. Tsunami V which is run from same site continues
| |
| − | for 2 months until it too is shutdown.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | MUD Name: Tsunami
| |
| − | Time: July 14, 1994
| |
| − | History: Wildcat now the proud owner of an Internet Serivce Provider
| |
| − | Administration: Wildcat, Dealer, Sauron, Cowl, Aristotle
| |
| − | Other Important Wizards: Moonscatter, Mota, Snotvark, Corwyn, Crusher,
| |
| − | Blood, Ryverwynd, Charon
| |
| − | Feared Players: Droppa, Oomph, Zerstoren, Evoker, Box, Darkforce,
| |
| − | Pelostar, Fuzzie, Cesilion, Styx, Sorrow
| |
| − | Other Notable People: Badkarma, Ashen, Jerrico, Dreg, Coroner (3 three templars),
| |
| − | Rainmist, Karak, Ravnos, Elderon, Fuzzie, Cookie,
| |
| − | Phred
| |
| − | Important Cheeses: Initial Templars and Necromancers, Beer hat, Regen ring,
| |
| − | Tarel's Wand missile ring, Ninjas with full caltrop
| |
| − | immunity, Ninjas with escape, Inifinte use Shurikens,
| |
| − | Anti-Player Gun, Cursed Equipment
| |
| − | Details: Subclasses introduced, Hero levels (mortal levels past 19)
| |
| − | introduced, Full weaponskills introduced, guild race
| |
| − | introduced, Shout censor rewritten for context senstive shouts,
| |
| − | Barbarians Introduced, Player titles introduced, Player owned
| |
| − | shops rewritten.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Time: July 14, 1995
| |
| − | History: Tsunami celebrates it's first full year at a single site.
| |
| − | Important Cheeses: Aeromancers levitating players out of the arena to
| |
| − | win, tricking people into saying Hastur three times,
| |
| − | damage taken and damage done during wars to gauge
| |
| − | when to jump someone
| |
| − | Details: Total subclasses now over 40, entire core mudlib has been
| |
| − | rewritten since the closing of Tsunami IV, project underway
| |
| − | to recode original areas, hero levels removed, Hastur the
| |
| − | unmentionable is added to the game, (Don't say his name three
| |
| − | times less...)
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Time: January, 1996
| |
| − | Details: Tsunami goes online with Intermud 3 and Socket support, most
| |
| − | major daemons are rewritten to support one of the two. New
| |
| − | class added: Undead with several monster species moving to it,
| |
| − | and addition of new subclasses for itTime: January, 1996
| |
| − | Details: Tsunami goes online with Intermud 3 and Socket support, most
| |
| − | major daemons are rewritten to support one of the two. New
| |
| − | class added: Undead with several monster species moving to it,
| |
| − | and addition of new subclasses for it.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Time: Feb 1996-2001
| |
| − | Administration: Wildcat, Fingolfin, Aristotle, Cowl, Sauron.
| |
| − | Other important wizards: Gotenks, Pinkdaisy, Brand, Yoshi, Charon,
| |
| − | Alexi.
| |
| − | Major Players: Evoker, Mimic, Baroo, Gwynhefar, Largo, Amorlace,
| |
| − | Xbering, Gatecrash, Zartan, Xenon, Georgios,
| |
| − | Caelum, Pelostar, Sader, Kitiara, Neragus,
| |
| − | Shockwave, Dupre, Sidi, Vance, Badangel,
| |
| − | Caracarnn, Bumhug, Nostrodomus, Tomten, Talib,
| |
| − | Valarauko.
| |
| − | Player Teams: Lenchmob, Bloodkin, Bsd, notorius, DOA, USB LuTH,
| |
| − | The family, the corleones, Cosa Nostra, FB, Team KK,
| |
| − | WIU, A&M, FOTEN, KETSUP, SMSU, Brasilian Horde,
| |
| − | UW-Madison, ATLANTA
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Changes with the subclasses:
| |
| − | -Vamp2s and vampire families later
| |
| − | -New Deathknights
| |
| − | -Ninjas actually becoming ninjas, rather than better backstabbers
| |
| − | -Barbarian recode
| |
| − | -Diabolists, first class with the ability to summon mulitple followers
| |
| − | -Hydromancers becoming water based rather than ice mages
| |
| − | -Swashbucklers, dual wield
| |
| − | -Figsubs, customization to a degree that shouldn't be
| |
| − | -Clerics recoded
| |
| − | -Samurais given stances based upon elemental attunement
| |
| − | -Fetches... gone
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Changes to areas:
| |
| − | -Middle Earth, Gotenks completely recoded by aug of '98
| |
| − | -Blah, Qued recoded in feb of '99
| |
| − | -Tarel's Area, removed and a shop placed in its location
| |
| − | -Doom, removed in '98
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Misc. changes:
| |
| − | -Backstab reduced to about 1/3 effeciency
| |
| − | -Summon Spell/Scrolls, several changes
| |
| − | -Followers, limiting numbers of and the ability to 'tank'
| |
| − | -Spell/Skill Modifiers, no longer are the days of +100 blasts
| |
| − | -Fey Guild, lots of thematic classes that are quite powerful
| |
| − | -Player Meetings, players gathering to suggest ideas en masse
| |
| − | -PK system, Countless changes over the last five years
| |
| − | -Armour and Damage, AC and toughness are more helpful, 2nd attacker bonus no more
| |
| − | -Skill Level, exping a lowbie is more consistant now, skill maxxes lowered
| |
| − | -Player Housing, fairly safe rooms that players can purchase with mud money
| |
| − | -Portable Holes, unusable during combat, cannot carry zombies inside...
| |
| − | -Healing Helmets, made metal so mages could not use, life bracelets made same year
| |
| − | -DOQ command, removed due to various abuses
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Bugs and/or cheeses:
| |
| − | -Lahjik's faerie bug, creation of infinite mulitple fully equipped monsters
| |
| − | -Deathknight Dark bug, increased bonuses in dark, dark spell didn't cap, infinite bonuses
| |
| − | -Doom Chainsaws, backstabbing for ungodly amounts of damage
| |
| − | -Shadowdragons, never made it out of playtesting, had a room drain
| |
| − | -Shadowmancers, short time mage class, lots of instant attacks
| |
| − | -Enchanters, 20sp to fill an orb
| |
| − | -Annihilate, added to blasters, instant damage that ignored intimidate
| |
| − | -Depositing negative cash in a bank to get same amount in hand
| |
| − | -Locket and spellbook made npcs come back at 0hp
| |
| − | -Send maxint through western union to get 2000M coins
| |
| − | -Inn in middle earth healed full hp/sp for 3k instant
| |
| − | -Kydliss +loads cold resistance potions stacking
| |
| − | -Kydliss +loads magic potions stacking
| |
| − | -Infite skills from buggy safe code in houses
| |
| − | -Zatan's reset room scroll
| |
| − | -Remorhaz in kyldiss without any resistance
| |
| − | -Kyldiss mages not casting any spells
| |
| − | -Zatan's cocodiles not having any attacks due to non standard hunting code
| |
| − | -Shadeweaver's pit's npcs not having any attacks
| |
| − | -Being able to gate to ANY room if mage was meditating
| |
| − | -Cloud dragons being able to do any amount of instant breathes the same hb
| |
| − | -Buyable regen rings and shield scrolls
| |
| − | -Summon infinite numbers of lolth spiders into a room and kill them for 1k each
| |
| − | -Sending 100000000 flower delivery men to someone and sell the corpses to Shadeweaver's corpse shop
| |
| − | -History erase button in motas area to dest your character to clone cash and items
| |
| − | -Quit while stalked to dest yourself to clone cash and items
| |
| − | -Inferno scrolls to pk with non mages
| |
| − | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Page designed by Indel.
| |
| − | Last modified on November 27th, 2001.
| |
