Memesis

Character Creation

Character creation is where I first experienced problems. The general order was: enter a character name, or an email address, and the game would determine whether you were a new player or not. I was asked to confirm that the email address was in fact an address. I was then given a password and asked if I wished to change it. If I had not created a character name at this time, would I have been blocked from reregistering with my email address?

Once this was done, I received a BBS-style prompting for character creation, listing, and so forth. I chose to create a new character. I was prompted to enter a name, and provide descriptions of myself. The race selection interface accepted two-letter responses from a fixed menu of choices. Curiously, I was also prompted to confirm my character’s appearance and assign traits, but in these cases I was expected to type in the entire body part (or “area”) and adjective, despite the fact that the choices were just as fixed as the racial selection.

Finally I was put into the extended editor to type in a description. The “save and quit” option left me with no clear direction for my next task, so I used ~q to quit the editor. This then prompted me for a background, again using the editor. However, when I attempted to quit from this editor, the mud apparently turned off local echo (I am using TinyFugue). I believe it’s specific to the mud as reconnecting in another screen session left me with the same problem, and switching to another world restored my echo.

After typing a nonsense command, I was informed (to my surprise) that the game was expecting me to change my password – despite being offered this opportunity earlier. No indication had appeared to me that I would be prompted for a new password.