Return of the Shadow: how to connect, and what we measured

RETURN OF THE SHADOW [unclaimed]
telnet rotsmud.dyndns.org 3791

Players now: no count (nothing here says why)
Reachable: 100.0% of the last 90 days

When people are on (UTC)
Measured every hour and nobody has been on in any of them. 131 hours across the
week have no measurement yet.

  Mon — measured at zero all day, nobody on 03:00–03:59, 20 hours not measured
  Tue — measured at zero all day, nobody on 21:00–22:59, 19 hours not measured
  Wed — measured at zero all day, nobody on 03:00–04:59, 16 hours not measured
  Thu — measured at zero all day, nobody on 03:00–04:59, 16 hours not measured
  Fri — measured at zero all day, nobody on 03:00–03:59, 20 hours not measured
  Sat — measured at zero all day, nobody on 03:00–03:59, 20 hours not measured
  Sun — measured at zero all day, nobody on 03:00–03:59, 20 hours not measured

  counted = we got in and read a number, including a measured zero
  uncounted = we got in and no number could be read
  not measured = we have no measurement for that hour

How many, over time (13 Jun 2026 – 10 Sep 2026, UTC)
Typically 0 on, peaking at 0, over 15 of 90 days. Steady across the range.

  13 Jun–19 Jun: not measured
  20 Jun–26 Jun: not measured
  27 Jun–3 Jul: not measured
  4 Jul–10 Jul: not measured
  11 Jul–17 Jul: not measured
  18 Jul–24 Jul: not measured
  25 Jul–31 Jul: not measured
  1 Aug–7 Aug: not measured
  8 Aug–14 Aug: not measured
  15 Aug–21 Aug: probed, no count could be read
  22 Aug–28 Aug: typically 0, peak 0, 3 days counted, 4 days probed without a
  count
  29 Aug–4 Sep: typically 0, peak 0, 7 days counted
  5 Sep–10 Sep: typically 0, peak 0, 5 days counted, 1 day not measured

  earlier: ?from=2026-03-15&to=2026-06-12&plain=1
  a week is summarised over the days in it we counted; a week with none says so

Reachable (last 90 days)
Reachable 100.0% of the 24 days we have measured. No day we measured was
unreachable. 66 days predate anything we measured.

  13 Jun – 17 Aug: 66 days not measured

Capabilities (0 of 2 disagree)
  MSSP       measured: yes     declared: -
  MXP        measured: yes     declared: -

Declared by the game
  codebase   CircleMUD  (measured, 5h)
  name       Return of the Shadow  (declared, 5h)
  crawl delay -1  (declared, 5h)

Connect screen
  [connect screen: 16 lines, text only]

  
  
                                 Welcome to
                            RETURN OF THE SHADOW
                          or  ARDA: The Fourth Age
  
                           Based on CircleMud
                         Original concept and code by:
                    Hans Henrik Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe,
             Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer
         Currently maintained by Maga, Lowtheim, Drelidan, and others
  
                         Webpage: http://www.rotsmud.org
            Log in with your account email address at the prompt.
  
  Account email:

What changed
  2026-08-26  capability.mssp.measured changed from false to true (handshake)
  2026-08-18  NAME recorded as Return of the Shadow (staff)
  2026-08-18  endpoint recorded as rotsmud.dyndns.org 3791 (handshake)