User:Luu

I'm working on staging all sort of handy game information here. Contributions will be welcome and encouraged, but please do that by contacting me with them, rather than simply editing this page. Thanks!

MUSH Clients

Not all MUSH clients are created equally, in fact some differ significantly lacking important features; having nasty bugs; or no longer being maintained. This has hampered MUSH servers for a long time as they have aimed to support all clients, meaning that a lot new features get ignored. RhostMUSH has made significant effort to have these improved features have a graceful fallback method for older clients (some 20 years out-of-date!), which means game Coders can start to target the newer clients while still providing a useable experience for the older clients. Still, these older clients have slowed down MUSH improvements for awhile now and most people don't even truly realize what the games are capable of doing. To combat this inertia, this guide will go over the various features and clients, helping players to get the best possible client setup with the least amount of work, and understand how this will benefit them.

Features

After surveying the MUSH, I ended up with a list of commonly used essential features that I will be working on covering. As you can see, this is a lot of ground to cover, especially when dealing with a number of clients on a number of platforms. It will take some time for all this information to be available here, but if there are certain priorities or things I'm missing, do let me know. I'm also happy to work with you individually on a particular setup, as going over that is source of documentation itself. Initial setup help provided might start by pointing at a particular area of a client's documentation, but that's a stop-gap until I have a chance to write it myself. When the documentation deals with something specific to Liberation, it will be noted. My expectation is a client will generally be used for multiple MUSHes (an MU*s in general), so I want to provide help that will work for all the games that one might play on.

256 Color

24-bit Color

Accents

UTF8/UNICODE/Emoji

auto logging

spawn windows

connect and disconnect scripts

fugue-style editing

highlighting and gagging

scripting on received input

spell checking and grammar checking

other advanced features

other client and terminal considerations