I am a newbie and joined this list only a week or two ago when I grabbed a copy of Circle30bpl17. My goal is to simply make a mud that fits my vision of an environment where players can role play and adventure. From the discussion so far I have to say that it's based on little more then assumption. It seems everyone just assumes that Joe Soap will grab a copy of circle then on whatever server or their own box, unzip the file then setup the mud as stock and start advertising on Mudconnector. Will I be doing this? No. While I am new to coding and cannot alter the stock code too much more then through what is offered via snippits, I do hope that it's different enough not to be considered stock. The biggest change will be removing the stock areas to build a completely unique world. Now, I will not argue that MANY people do put up stock muds with stock areas and it's beyond me why they do it. But I don't see how it affects those of us who do not. I mean, if anything, it only makes the people doing it look stupid. Another important thing that must be said is, this does not only happen with Circle. It happens with Rom and with Smaug and various other 'packages' that exist. The only people tarnished by people setting up stock muds are those who do it. If anything, this serves to boost the muds which are not stock. Jace -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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