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October 1, 2001 -
Axel
| Ioméne: |
Hello there Axel. |
| Axel:
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Hi. |
| Ioméne: |
How are you today, ol' chap? |
| Axel:
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I am fine, but lots of work rl at the
moment since it is the end of the quarter. |
| Ioméne: |
I see, where do you work? |
| Axel: |
Well, in Germany, I work for a
company doing medical software and I am mostly coding drivers
for online blood analyzers and other stuff. |
| Ioméne: |
Would you like to tell some of the
characters you play? |
| Axel:
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Hrm, too many pretty inactive but:
Girando, Sivanor, Ramiris, Jheran, Dugmok, Mahyr and others. |
| Ioméne: |
Not bad at all, when did you start
playing? |
| Axel: |
Well, the very first time i got in
touch with mume was sometime in the summer of 1998, that was
when I surfed the web checking out different Tolkien games.
Then mobbed 2x to a brown bear - then just quit. I came back
in june 99 and then the addiction really hit me :> |
| Ioméne: |
I see. You must be one of not many
others who has not been introduced to the game by a friend. So
tell us, how did you manage such a short but successful
carreer? :) |
| Axel: |
Well, I wouldn't call it career,
and I don't even rate myself good. Anyway, after 3 months
of playing I met Var, Dar and Skelter and somehow they let me
tag along and I guess that helped a lot. Also, I love to map
and figure out stuff, so I was perma-running around mapping
all. |
| Ioméne: |
Do you have any favourite place to
hunt at? |
| Axel: |
Well, since I love in Moria, I
certainly like to fight there. Actually I don't care where I
pk, but I dislike the NOC - DT area. |
| Ioméne: |
So, what you are saying is that you
had a sort an unusual childhood here on mume. Others usually
if they start as pukes run around bree to fornost and when
they pk they dont pass the nen-i-sul bridge. |
| Axel: |
Well, not really, during my first
three months I learned most of Bree, Fornost, GH etc myself -
btw - I loved the first time when I tried to get to Bree or
then from Bree to Grey Havens. P(Var) was an old and very
experienced player and he helped me a lot. |
| Ioméne: |
You are a Mb yourself, what have you
contributed with? |
| Axel: |
I am building a Rohan zone, and I
am done with room descs. |
| Ioméne: |
Oh, will it open anytime soon? |
| Axel: |
I don't know really, I think Rohan
started 1.5 years ago (July 2000), maybe even more. So I
figure (HOPE) that it will open soonish. |
| Ioméne: |
Do you do much smobbing and xping
apart from pking? |
| Axel: |
Well, not really, I go solo a lot, so
not too much smobbing. |
| Ioméne: |
Also, we all know you are sorta the
char Combo-King. How do you do it?! I am even myself working
on a Mahyr copy! |
| Axel: |
Well, as I mentioned earlier I like
to figure stuff out, so I played with VrAK's statgen for ages.
I loved to fight Vayu when i was playing Girando a lot and
*blush* I tried to kinda copy him :) Was hard at first since I
did not know his stats/pracs etc. But if u like to hang out
solo a lot I guess a mage/thief combo is the best. |
| Ioméne: |
How do you like the recent changes? |
| Axel: |
I like the new noc and the new trolls
best. It's nice to see people so active. |
| Ioméne: |
I would like to give you my opinion
on something that I hate at least. That is i.e a pack of orcs
standing inside lbfort and outside stands same amound of
whities yelling "YOU KILLED HIM LINKLESS" and such. It imho
really ruins the fun and the spirit of it all. |
| Axel: |
Yea, besides that whining,
linkless-killing just to get eq or wps, I think groups have to
be changed and there are some very nice ideas. e.g followers
drop when the leader is running too fast or someting, but
besides that, I just try to avoid those groups. |
| Ioméne: |
Ok, what do you think MUME will
be like in 5 years then? |
| Axel: |
That's a good question, but if it
still exists, probably quite like it does now. |
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All of a sudden Ilie
steps into the room (we are sitting in Axel's god room) and
mentions something about a delayed door or something and looks
at us threateningly. Axel apologizes, Ilie mutters, and
leaves. We continue our interview. |
| Ioméne: |
Ok, would you agree to say that
logcomments and forums like mume.net contribute to the "bad
spirit" that is around? |
| Axel: |
Well, I loved mume.net when it
started, it was/is a great site and very well done, but
without someone administrating it and those anonymous retarded
comments, it just sucked :> |
| Ioméne: |
100% agree. Is there something you
dislike about MUME? |
| Axel: |
Well, since I am mostly on as my Ainu
lately, yea, I dislike the leveling/working-system for Maiar.
I am a coder, I've done code all my life and that is
actually the only thing I have real fun with :) But now here
in MUME, to make the V+ even notice you you have to get
toMw. Lucky are those who get a zone, besides most coders hate
to write descriptions so that already filters out most ppl.
Then zone work eats up a year or likely more. So you start
out psyched up and all, but are kinda forced to sit and
wait - that pretty rough :). But yea, I understand they need
to filter people out to make sure they are people than can be
trusted. |
| Ioméne: |
Ok, thank you very much for letting
me doing this. Now stand up! |
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Axel rises to his
feet. I shake Axel's hand and we are
done. |
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