On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Mark Jordaan wrote: > It's not supposed to be easy! or else every body and his dog would start a mud > and we would have no one playing on ours ;-) and we'd lose our status > as being gods and very clever to boot ;-) And some would even argue that this has already happened :) There's a topic for discussion - has the portability (it runs on windows ffs ;)) of CircleMUD been actually detrimental to the community? Has it become too easy to set up a CircleMUD? (cd circle ; ./configure ; make). Have we sacrificed quality for easy of use/installation? I know there are definitely quality CircleMUDs out there, but the poor StockMUDs with "all the latest patches" certainly outnumber them by a large factor IMHO. This doesn't happen with say, DikuMUD (granted, thats an extreme example though). This isnt a troll, or flamebait... I realise that one of the main tenets of any good software program is portability, and I always try to stick to that rule. But, is CircleMUD gone from "by hackers for hackers (who want to run a mud)" to "by hackers for any joe soap without any coding skills who wants to run a mud". Personally, I still can't really decide which is better, so please - comments? :) -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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