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Topic: Seeking Coders, Builders, and Writers for a BTMUX based MUX (Original theme)
February 02/24/08, 2008 - 12:41 PM
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Seeking Coders, Builders, and Writers for a BTMUX based MUX (Original theme) Posted By:Jrsteensen
Hey all, I am seeking staff for SOL: Shattered Galaxies MUX. No experience needed on BTMUX, but experience is required on building for MUX/MUSHs. (BTMUX is a derivative of TinyMUX 1.6) We are aiming for an original post-apocalyptic hard sci-fi setting. We are in early stages of development, and still doing the initial hiring. Please either email me at john.steensen@us.army.mil or IM me at AIM:jrsteensen.
POSITIONS: Head Coder - Must be skilled at coding with several projects under his or her belt. Must be willing to help manage and prioritize projects.
Coders - Must have experience coding on MUDs/MUSHs/MUXes. Expected to be skilled with softcode, but can be flexible.
Head Builder - Must be experienced in building on MUSH/MUXes. Must have excellent writing abilities and be willing to proof read all builders areas before they are attached to the IC world, and help assign areas to the builders.
Builders - Must possess good writing and grammar skills, and know the basics of building in a MUSH/MUX, as well as the basics of softcoding.
Writers - Writers must have excellent imagination, and grammar/spelling skills, and be willing to flesh out the theme and storyline, and do minimal helpfile work when required.
THEME Humanity has come a long way…but not so far as one would imagine. We have not visited even the nearest star yet. But we have made Mars an inhabited planet. We have established colonies in the asteroid belt, even on the moons of Jupiter. We are by no means a peaceful people. World War 4 resulted in the utter destruction of our home planet. It was a corporate war…the largest war man has ever been witness to. It spanned not only our planet, but our solar system, with hostile actions being taken in the depths of space. Bourner, Inc. was experimenting with utilizing microscopic anti-matter charges to split extremely large asteroids into manageable chunks that were to be used as giant battering rams against rival corporations. Through a series of accidents, complacency, and mismanagement -- blew an asteroid the size of Philadelphia out of its orbit. Earth was forewarned about the impending disaster, but not even the most extreme measures could destroy the asteroid. The people of Earth waited…and prayed. It impacted in China. Those on Mars, and on the Moon station, and in the asteroid belt held their breath, waiting for news of their families who were home. There were no radio transmissions from Earth. The first time since the dawn of radio. Zero. None. No sort of signal of any sort. During this time, the corporations quickly came to a peace accord. It was over a week before a ship managed to make it to a relay station in low earth orbit. 4.5 billion people dead. Hundreds of millions of people hurt, or starving. What was even more disturbing…the Earth’s rotation was slowing down, measurably so, every day. It eventually stopped, leaving the eastern hemisphere permanently pointed at the sun, beginning to cook it, and reducing all the oceans to mist which covered the dark side of the planet. A massive rescue expedition sprang from Mars, and after the nuclear winter settled, they began restructuring a network of mirrors and solar collectors to get sunlight and energy to the dark side of the planet, slowly beginning to re-warm and unthaw it. The surface of the planet was never to be inhabitable by humans unassisted again. The survivors began burrowing, seeking the life giving warmth of the planet’s core, and the un-poisoned underground freshwater reserves that remained. Time passed. 93 Earth Standard years to be precise. The corporations still held long standing grudges against each other, with the near total settling of Mars and a number of outlying colonies throughout the solar system, even as far as Pluto. Mars had become the human home planet. Earth has been relinquished, with the exception of a few areas for the ultra-rich boards of corporations, to a total industrial machine, sapping every resource the planet has, including its core for power.
Not a MUSH. Has fully coded combat system, and we plan on doing the same with space and fleshing out character combat. Just the building style is MUSH-like.
Posted By: Dr.cole on
04/30/08 at 11:47 AM
Mushes are good... easy to work on..better then the MUD(s) I might send in a request...
If it's hard scifi....
Posted By: Zhiroc on
05/15/08 at 07:35 AM
You know... a planet can't slow its rotation without some excuse as to where all that angular momentum is going. And if you tried, the solar heating is the least of your worries. The oceans would slosh over the land--there's that angular momentum again.
Also, to have a locked day cycle, the planet doesn't actually stop rotating, it's just that the period of rotation equals the period of revolution around the sun (i.e., the moon has a rotation of 27 days, the same as its period of revolution around the earth).
I mention this because you call it "hard sci-fi" and so you have to have some plausible scientific explanation for the slowing, and for why it stopped at a synchronous rotation. And no, a single asteroid wouldn't come close to doing this. Anything that did would have liquified the surface, boiled the oceans, and killed everyone. And it couldn't do it over time... it would have to happen immediately unless there's a way to continuously transfer the angular momentum to something. Conservation of angular momentum is a necessary scientific principle to uphold.
It's an interesting question what would happen to a planet that had a synchronous rotation like this, but with a atmosphere and hydrosphere like the earth. I imagine that there would be a lot of heat transfer done by the oceans and atmosphere that would mitigate a much of the effect--but accompanied by huge storms.
