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16-Apr-2008 01:04 (mudtime) posted by Liria: Ivan has posted the release of the HM quest. Here are his statements in RN:

First off, let me thank the few of you who were patient with me. To the rest of you, I understand. =)

The HMQuest is done and will be opened in a few moments. There have been some changes to the original plan, however. Initially, the quest was this huge cheat-resistant project that would really test the questor. Unfortunately, the plan was bigger than I anticipated. After a year or two (or 8) I had a quest that was pretty ready to go but I realized the upkeep would have been at least as daunting as the original coding.

Rather that retooling it so that it was more managable while still being as awesome as it was, which have no doubt required a few days of coding, I decided to go in a new direction. The quest is significantly shorter. It will test a persons knowledge of the mud but will not include what we generally consider "questing." I'm sorry to the HMs who got their rank the old way, since this is no
where near what you guys went through.

I decided it was more important to the mud to lift the artificial cap on playing than to maintain the super elite status of HM. I will revisit my rewrite of the quest if I get the time.

Ivan

[After a bug fix:] It's back up. There is no limit to how many people can quest per boot. There is a 20min interval between each attempt per person, though.

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