Starting a MUD server from scratch requires many s/w-engineering skills . Experience in Server Development is a must. There are many MUDServers that resides to Open Source Community and their codes is free for further development or customization.
StoneSquid Mud Server designed especially for everyone who wants to built his own world without coding skills or s/w modifications. A world builder software client is a part of StoneSquid project. This client can modify the world (in administrator layer only) safely, during on run-time.
There are also many tools for StoneSquid that supports Wizards and Admins to their job. They can watch statistics for players, rooms, items, logs, messages, actions, quests mobiles and many others. Also there are:
— Embedded Web Server
— *HostLookUp*, *ping*, *WhoIs* ,*finger* etc. services
— FTP client
— Java Applet Client, Desktop Telnet Client
Administrators and Wizards also can remotely use the fullpower of the system, and there is a secured methodology of anti-spamming behavior.