November 16th, 2012
The Mighty Banhammer
Haven’t seen Ence in a while!
You might be surprised to know that we have our own forum here. Unfortunately, it is the inspiration for this strip. Many a time have I waded deep amongst the bots, swinging my hammer liberaly, only for more to instantly appear. Always in a different form, but we know them for what they really are.
What a nightmare
Well it’s good to see that the forum get’s some credit, but those bots keep coming back, at an amazing rate at that too o.o Would be nice to see more activity there… (say’s an inactive follower)
Only thing i can think of to cut them down is bring is captcha or something for making new accounts. On the forum i frequent we had thousands of bots joining all the time, and since we put in captcha, weve only had about 4-5 in the past year.
I would have left it running. A fully AI world. That’s a dream come true. The only society to TRULY interact with itself, in a way that isn’t pre-scripted, yet also is. Like a world full of CleverBots.
I was tempted to go on the forum and post something. But there hasn’t been a post by a non-bot in like, a month or something.
Your comic helped inspire me to make a MUD today… just letting you know the extent of your comics effects, you banhammer may have destroyed a civilization, but it might have started an entire world…
Awesome! What’s it gonna be like and when can I play it?
im debating the genre i want it to be, but I want it to be a game about exploration, and I want to have it be a procedurally generated world so players can allways go to the edge of the map and continually explore farther and farther, further building the world. I am currently building world building tools for administrator accounts, and am looking for several players to help me build the starting areas (you know coming up with names and descriptions for the map tiles) while i work on programming other tools/functionality, such as actually having chatting and interaction with objects and fighting, and eventually crafting/construction. once i get the basic world building tools done i’ll let you know and then you can start running around in it. I aim to get those tools done today.
also if anyone wants to know more/be kept updated, feel free to contact me in the forums, lets breathe some life back into them.
I am extremely interested in all of this
it’s been quite a while since we’ve seen the imp, as well.
hopefully the purple chap is doing alright.
I think as a reply he would simply answer: Kree!
Ah, Myspace groups. I do miss you.
omg, I hope my old dragon forum isn’t end up like that, that used to be a second family to me.