I have been playing The Last Outpost on and off for 20 years of my life. The game has seen me through middle school, high school, college, marriage, grad school and children. It has outlived Ultima Online, Diablo 2, World of Warcraft, and countless console games. The Last Outpost has been a rock in my gaming career. This stability is the games biggest and best attributes. The Gods are calm and stable, the code is old and balanced and LOp will always respond when you fire up zmud or telenet even if it hasn’t seen your face in months or years. Last Outpost has a zone claiming based PVP system so peaceful players are able to fight back and claim areas to adventure in NPK. This protects against a single or small number of players from ruling over the player base. The Last Outpost equipment system has evolved from the mud’s unique long term long era player base. Once an item has been on a logged off character for a period of time that item is considered antique and will now respawn in the world so there is never any loss of equipment to seek in gameplay. Zones also reward random equipment drops based on character level not zone level which allows rewards for high level characters to enjoy all areas of the MUD not solely high level zones. The Outpost has a character remort system that allows a max level player to choose to recreate his character resetting all levels to 0 in exchange for a small bonus in character creation. So if you’re looking for MUD with stable unique code and systems that will be there with years to come please check out The Last Outpost.

The Last Outpost used to have three immortals, though there seems to have been only one for the last decade or so. That one tends to be active for short periods and then disappear for months at a time. When he does show up, he seems to spend more time harassing players than making the game more enjoyable. His lack of dependability has worsened to the point where he completely took the game down for a year. At this time he also wiped the player file, which he seems to do from time to time for no real benefit to the game. The game world is not very large and, unlike stated in the description here, is not completely original. I've seen at least two of the zones also installed on other muds. There are several other false statements in the description here: Player killing is not restricted. There is no player killing, period. I would hardly describe it as having an extended race or class selection. There are 6 races and 4 classes. It is definitely not newbie friendly. Groups are extremely rare, and even more rarely include newbies. This is largely due to there generally being 0-4 players connected at any given time. There is no level based equipment system. There are only restrictions based on alignment and class. The lack of a player base can obviously be attributed somewhat to the dated code and small world, but the main problem is the administration. He encourages people to write new zones, and then after they spend large amounts of time writing and submitting them he doesn't even respond. I don't mean they just don't get used. He goes for years ignoring inquiries from the authors about the status. Eventually these people give up and go somewhere else. He is also very biased and inconsistent in his enforcement of rule violations. We've had a player completely abusing the no-botting rule and getting exp while afk for months on end. Nothing was done to that player. The game was changed instead. Meanwhile, a different player that didn't even have any triggers has been stripped of all his equipment for botting. We've had a player ignore the 'no foul language on public channels' rule, to the point of gossiping obscenities and racial slurs (the 'N' word, etc) at others, yet nothing was done to that player. Yet we've had a character completely purged because a higher level character was helping him level. Not only is 'pleveling' not against any rule, but this activity was a regular part of the game for years before and continues to be a regular part of the game to this day. The only difference was that the immortal that did the purging didn't like the player. There is a subjective tone to this, which I find unavoidable in describing the game from a player's perspective. However, everything I've written here is factual.