Ares questions!
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Since I can’t get the forums on the Ares site to work for me, I’ll ask here!
Does an Ares game need to be connected to a mush/mux/etc? Could everything be done exclusively through the website/portal?
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@catzilla said in Ares questions!:
Does an Ares game need to be connected to a mush/mux/etc?
The Ares game is the mush/mux/etc.
@catzilla said in Ares questions!:
Could everything be done exclusively through the website/portal?
You could probably get away with just not giving the MU details out and getting people using the portal instead.
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@Pavel said in Ares questions!:
You could probably get away with just not giving the MU details out and getting people using the portal instead.
That would require custom code, since the game has the address emblazoned on the home screen and it has the web client as well.
There’s really no reason to, though, since players can play together equally whether they’re connected via a MU Client or the portal. Sometimes games do web-only or client-only systems (like chargen) but in general it doesn’t matter how you connect.
@catzilla said in Ares questions!:
Since I can’t get the forums on the Ares site to work for me, I’ll ask here!
If you want to DM me with the details of the problem you’re having, I can try to help you get that sorted out. You just need to create an AresCentral account and then you should be able to log in.
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@catzilla said in Ares questions!:
Since I can’t get the forums on the Ares site to work for me, I’ll ask here!
Does an Ares game need to be connected to a mush/mux/etc? Could everything be done exclusively through the website/portal?
Why would you even want this?
As someone that can only connect via a webclient when at the office (and not the web portal’s clients, because I can’t get on the portals, and even when I can, they don’t refresh and the webclient doesn’t work) it would ban me from accessing the game, despite there being an alternative right there.
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@Coin The game in question is currently being built on just a standard wiki and a Discord server.
I very much like the front page and various features of the web/portal part of Ares but MUX/MUSH/etc. coding confuses me to no end.
So as the potential game runner, that’s why I’d want that.
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@catzilla There’s no MUSH/MUX coding; the whole thing is built on Ruby. The web portal and telnet connection are two different ways to look at the same thing.
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@Roz This answers my question in a way better than I asked it lol. Thank you.
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Random observation: The telnet access is what makes Ares accessible to visually impaired players. Which of course doesn’t rule out having the coolest web portal ever.