Tom Dailey wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel A. Koepke <dkoepke@california.com>
> To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
> Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 9:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Sole Coder Project
>
.
> >
> >Good muds never come along in 6 months. Maybe the basis of a good mud.
> >Just as there are bottlenecks in a single-coder system, there are
> >compensating limitations to using a group of coders and administrators.
> >Not the least of which is design decisions and revision control.
> >
> I have to agree with Daniel on this. How many times have you seen an AD
> for a new mud, "hey we have olc", "hey we have cool colors", "hey we have
> new
> classes", "hey we have.." ...but when you get on the mud, the people
> running it
> have no vision of where they want to go, no master plan for character
> creation,
> no master them for the world, etc....I bet you could take 3 months on world
> design (without building
> a single room) alone.
>
> All that being said, I'd throw my 2 cents into the world side of the
> game/design if anyone wants some
> help
>
In my own opinion, I don't think code base is the issue. Granted
the time a coder has to actually code, and skill levels will vary, but
from my own personal experiance it's usually not code or the lack
thereof
that will define a mud. You can have a codebase with every feature
known
to God (or George :) but without builders and a vision it wouldn't
amount
to much. Well, except maybe to other coders who could ohh and ahhh over
what you had done :)
Neat idea though IF you could get a corresponding number of truly
talented
builders behind it
RS
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