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SMAUG
A Merc derivative built for large themed worlds, with deities, planes and an area set several times the size of its parent's.
Games running it
20 listed · 0 archived · measured, not declared
Counted from the catalogue on this request, over the same filter the link above carries — so this number and that listing are one query and cannot drift apart.
offered in their handshakes: MSDP, MSSP, MXP, MCCP, CHARSET, UTF-8
SMAUG — Simulated Medieval Adventure multi-User Game — came out of the Realms of Despair and is a Merc derivative that grew rather than simplified. Where ROM tightened Merc's combat, SMAUG added: deities, planes, more elaborate area and mob programs, a much larger stock world, and a correspondingly larger source tree.
Games running it tend to be the big themed ones, and several have been running continuously for twenty-five years.
What it looks like from outside
MSSP, answered on request, and nothing else negotiated on the game we measured.
Note for anyone comparing counts: SMAUG servers in our survey reported through MSSP and did not
answer a login-screen WHO, so the number here is the game's own MSSP PLAYERS — an assertion the
server makes, taken at face value only because we could not measure it independently. The game page
labels which of the two any given figure came from.