I agree with you here to some extent :). I am not the best coder in the world, nor do I consider myself that good at it, but I'm here just pretty much reading what other people have to say about mudding, etc. I do though take the time to try to figure out the problems myself before bothering other people with them. I feel the need to do this because I think the only way you can truly learn is to experiment with things yourself. I think the major problem is most of the "newbies" don't want to spend the time it takes to code if you don't get code from somebody else. It does take a lot of time, and I'll admit, there are times where I'll spend hours on something simple before I can actually get the thing working right, but I feel it necessary to try myself first so I become a better coder, and can do more things in the future. Just my two cents.. Josh B. On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, J. David Ribak wrote: > > My basic point to this long-winded message is, if you are > a new mud imp, coder, whatever, take the time to read the > documentation, fiddle around, etc, before coming to the > list. And if you do come to the list for help, dont come > here with the attitude of write my mud for me. Ask for > help in a polite manner, and give enough information so > that someone can help you with your problem. There seem > to be a lot of "help, my olc is broken" questions, yet they > dont state which version of olc they are using, which command > is causing the problem, etc. > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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