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Naming Mules and Class selection

Last year, I had little problem naming my Mules. StuffSTO, GemSTO, etc was great names for the permanent town residences. Then a problem surfaced. As more computers were added, the more "unique" names were required. Also, the more "real" characters that were used, the more Mules were required. There is nothing to say that you cannot have only 8 characters and after completing the game in "Hell," use those same ones (except for the reasons listed in the next section). But, as all Mules do, they begin to fill up. There is little point if you are already creating a new character to play, start up new Mules! Here is where the naming scheme came into play.

I began writing down what quest each of the Mules ended up on, and that started to become a pain. Too much admin work for such a "simple" task, so I came up with a better solution. Name the Mules according to generation. Example "Fred" "FredII" "Fred-III" or "Fred_IV" etc, since you cannot have numbers in character names; the roman numerals were an obvious choice! Now, when firing up a game, you know that all the "IV" characters GO together! I also use my computer names (since they are all 4 letters) in naming my Mules. Not only does this make the names short, but in game, you know what character goes with what computer, and trust me when I say that this is important also.

Another good thing to do is create different "Classes" for your Mules. For example, I did have "BowSTO" an Amazon; carry all good bows, but then what happens? What computer is "BowSTO?" Now, you have, say "Bart-I" and "Fred-I" (note: my computers are NOT named Bart or Fred) Bart is a Barbarian, Fred a Druid. Give all Barbarian equipment to Bart and all Druid stuff to Fred. Simple, huh? Usually, I have the 6 Mules (2 characters being played, myself and G-Fri) each be different classes. No matter what you find, you can have a place to put that "just to good to sell" stuff.

Also, try to set up a system to handle other items, such as gems, runes, rings, amulets, etc, you could make a modification to the naming scheme to accommodate it! For example "BartRING-I" and "FredRUNE-I."

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People REALLY don't need to know what my computer names are...

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