Maintaining a SkotOS Game

This is documentation for administrators and maintainers — people who have to keep the game running day-to-day.

You can find useful things in other sections. You'll probably need to know a bit about being a StoryBuilder, for instance, and maybe a bit about writing DGD code.

But you'll also need to know some more specific things just for you, as a maintainer.

This is a grab-bag of documentation from commercial SkotOS games, including the ones still running.

It could use a proper reorganisation.

• Maintenance
• Authentication
• Users and Logins
• Layers of the SkotOS server
• SkotOS Wiztool
• Staff_Plus_Commands

Roles

MUDs have historically needed a bit more hierarchy and management than you'd expect because they're normally run by volunteers, not by a small number of paid, dedicated employees. That means it's important to give out privileges carefully, and to know who does what.