Planet M.U.L.E.

What is changed from Planet Mule to MULE 2?

This list is updated as we add new gameplay features. The newest feature is at the bottom.

- 5 players.
- Bigger map (9x7=63 squares)
- Each species has a special ability/bonus.
- Bid money for influencing the starting position (ranking).
- Land Rush. Run with your character to grab a land.
- Development is done in groups. First 2 leading players, then the 3 trailing players.
- Select species each round during the summary.
- No land sale office.

Maybe I missed it, but is the Land Sale Office still present in MULE2?

The Land Sale Office was removed in MULE 2 because it was rarely used in Planet Mule and if a player needs to use it she has practically lost the game already.

It was removed, but now that Null Pointer Error has been cured, an old strategy has been revived for players tryin to get cheaper land who have extra money in the original version, so maybe removing it was a bad move.  I'm thinking we need to survey the community and see who else thinks it should be put back in.

where can i try this?

 You cant, its packed away gathering dust




ps, if mule 2 ever comes back pls put land sale office back!





Dm17

That's 2 votes for putting the land sale back in. :)

I want the land sale back in, and would like to be able to rent the land to others for a set fee per turn.

If you look in the mule2 feedback forum, I put up a poll, and last I looked, everyone has voted in favor of it. :)

but if its packed away and not happening, why are we voting on features? Or did I miss something....
Thanks

Because they have brought in a new programmer to put in back in development, so we should be seeing some new betas soon.

hope they get the beta  out soon this sight needs publicity its hard to find players

Land sale office back please.  :)

Did I read this right, you can change charatcers mid game? Doesn't that take away alot of the luck, like if you are low on food, you can use the one with no food, or worried about a bad event cause you are in first place take the one with no bad events?

In the current beta, you must choose your species at the start of the game and you can't change it mid-game. We have trialled a version where you choose species each round and since no two players could be the same species in that game-type, it actually adds (in my opinion) to the strategy.

I personally preferred that mode, and like the idea of there being multiple game-styles you can choose from when hosting, but that's my opinion as a player not anything official. If other people like the idea, maybe they'd bring it back :)

Thanks...
What about the jumping around land grant, is that a bug or normal?
Also, can only one player get the wampus?

Also, are the events the same?  3 quakes, 2 pirates, 2 fires, etc?

Do you mean where you see the land-grant black square jump back a few spaces to claim a plot for another player, then resume? This is... well not exactly a bug but something we know about and plan to address. It's due to lag between players - another player claimed (2,4) and this message only just reached you when your game thinks we're on (5,4) so it has to 'unwind'. Like I say, we're aware of it.

Only one player at a time yes - there are two wampus each phase, one in each turn. So e.g. players 1/2/3 get to fight over 1 wampus in their turn, and then players 4/5 get to fight over another one.

If you bring up the main chat window (Enter) there is an "Events" button. Try it out...

I do not see an "events" button in my window...

Thanks.

My mistake, you need to click on the History button not Chat:

(http://www.planetmule.com/forum?action=dlattach;topic=1226.0;attach=13091;image)
(http://www.planetmule.com/forum?action=dlattach;topic=1226.0;attach=13093)

This shows you how many times each event has happened and could still happen... so you can easily check the total number of each allowed.

Ohhh. Thanks.
By the way, with all the criticism, I just wanted to reiterate my thanks for providing this FREE game for all of us. 

Also, can you explain what "One Shot, Slot Machine" is?

This was asked a few times, we probably should have removed it already.

When we were developing the game we tried a few different things - so when you started a game you had a few game settings to choose from.

One of these was to let you choose if species were selected at the start of the game (one-shot) or if you could change species at the start of each round.

Another was to choose between the current land-grab mode where you have the 'slot' moving over all the tiles, and a version where you actually walk your avatars out onto the map to claim plots.

These alternative things are all disabled now, but we display the selected options in the lobby because that was never turned off!

You are willing to make these options you can turn on and off but not give us the choice between sequential and concurrent development?

They're not options you can turn on and off. They are things we tried out internally and then someone decided which one to use. Which I'm sure is exactly how the sequential Vs concurrent choice was made as well.

I dont have this "event" button on my screen...
Is that possible?

You have no History button next to Chat?