Forgive me if I seem totally stupid here. But what is the actual point of circleMud? Most muds out in the wild so to speak either have totally rewritten the areas and have added a few commands, rewritten the load messages etc. But what I really want to know is where all this is heading? Are you trying to build a mud that is AD&D 2nd edition compliant as seems the case or just trying to make the original code as clean as can be? I played on a Mud called rauvyon and the coder there introcuded too many things to mention, but at the time seemed awesome, now that I have delved inside things I have come to the realisation that its not THAT hard, (just takes time to figure how things work, but I can never take what he did lightly for to play that game was playing AD&D 2E), but with the recent changes in circleMud, ie between bpl19 to bpl21 things have changed dramatically, few snippets prior to bpl21 will work with the latest patch level and that itself leaves newbie coders out in the cold. Ive seen the circle code evolve from bpl11 onwards but where does it stop? All we have seen recently is more efficient ways of doing things but is the codebase ever going to evolve? Why should every newbie coder have to implement color codes, races, abrreviations, and just about every snippet ever posted to the ftp site? I came across a rom codebase once called firstmud and it was feature packed, yet i doubt it had the stability of circleMud but it had what every potential implementor wanted so do we settle for a codebase packed with features or a stable codebase with which we have to work our butts of to make it playable? Basically what I am getting at is why dont you incorporate each new snippet on its merits, (ie, this could enhance the codebase) and let it grow. I personally would love to see a circle codebase with manual color, olc, dgscripts, buildwalk, etc that evolves with every new realease rather than the stripped down version that needs so much patching to get it almost usable. I hope I havent offended anyone who actually posts here or contributes and I realise just how much work you all put in, but again I ask where does it all lead and to what purpose? -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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