PK race comments/logs

[Carrion]

Did that 3000th note fill the quota, or what's up

If not, how did the ones participating in the PK race feel
about the race? Seemed like a good idea... Seems to be
more people logged on last couple of days also...

[Yavathol]

I didn't participate in the PK race myself, but I have noted a trend of more PKers coming back since that day.  Maybe there will be a little more activity now.

[draculea]

 Pkrace....
Now those were some nice moments! For a few minutes it actually felt like in the old days.
But now those are gone as well ... like BK attacks and like probably all the unique and
extremelly entertaining activities that we could have on Nanny.
 I bet Blizzard payed the admins to wreck Nanny!!!

[Tredon]

No, the uncaring administrations and wizards who made a lot of poor decisions wrecked Nanny.
The administrations general incompetence and extremely bad decisions wrecked Nanny.
The buggy game, the poor and especially old style gameplay wrecked Nanny.
The bugs, the generally bad implementation of ideas and bad code wrecked Nanny.
The cheating, bug/exploit using players wrecked Nanny.
The lack of new players and the small number of frequent players wrecked Nanny.
The infrequent updates are what wrecked Nanny.

Blizzard have a player base of around 8 million accounts.

Blizzard have a huge amount of skills, spells, items and quests available and the game is updated frequently.
They have many quests which are both fun and more engaging and interesting than the standard kill, FedEx and escort quests, in The Burning Crusade expansion they even have an aerial bombing mission.
WoW has stealth missions, exploration missions, healing missions and trade skill missions.
WoW have an active trading and crafting community.
WoW have an active PK community.
In WoW players can customize their characters in a huge number of ways.
Blizzard doesn't need to wreck NannyMUD because they do not care about any of the smalltime games out there.
Compare the NannyMUD playerbase of perhaps 40 mortal players online at the same time and maybe 20 wizards to the millions of active players, and that does not include the gold farmers, mules and bots.

I admit that WoW isn't a very good game, it is quite bad in fact.
The point is that even after over 13 years of NannyMUD the game is not extremely popular, it is buggy and unstable.
The NannyMUD webpage haven't had a major update in months, it is in fact not a priority for the admins attention.
The webpage looks bad, the prophets guild isn't even up yet and it was released months ago.
The quests page and some guild pages cannot be used and it once took over a year to find and fix that the vikings webpage was down.
The admins are so effective, don't you think?
Ask yourself if you would still play NannyMUD if you had to pay for it.
Would other players want to pay a monthly fee for it?
Is the quality of NannyMUD really so good that you would pay a monthly fee for it?

[draculea]

 Hell yeah I would pay for it!

Make a contract with Blizzard so they take Nanny and put it in WoW, with all those great areas and quests that i like, plus the guilds,
transform our Nanny chars into WoW chars and i'll gladly pay for it !
Or simply put it into graphics and I'll pay for it

[Tredon]

You can pay for NannyMUD.
In the past people could send in donations to the game.
If I recall correctly you got a statue below the church in the game for donating.
Just send in a donation each month and there you have your monthly fee.

[draculea]

 Tredon ... what exactely didn't you understand from "put it into graphics" ?

[Tredon]

I asked if you would pay for NannyMUD as it is, IE a text MUD.
I didn't ask if you would pay for it if the game was made with graphics.
One of the problems of making NannyMUD, besides the production costs and the time it would take to finish it, not to mention the of bugs and instability which are so usual even in modern MMOG's is that NannyMUD as a graphical and commercial game would break a dozen copyright laws.
Much of NannyMUD's areas are based on copyrighted material, from Lord of the Rings to Wheel of Time,
Elric of Melniboné, the Discworld and even Wizards of the coast material such as Dragonlance and Ravenloft.
There is also the problem of the many different and conflicting styles and themes in the game.
NannyMUD does not have a uniform theme or a single style on which to base the graphics on.

[draculea]

 This is exactely what makes it so great!:)