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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2013 14:29:57 GMT -5
Welda, Oryx, Morgenes, Rathustra, most of the staff are positive forces in some areas and negative in others. It just so happens that with the staff as many and as diverse as they are, there's hard to find an area that one staff member or other isn't negative in (conversely, it's also hard to find an area where one staff member or other isn't positive. It can just be difficult to see that because of the heirarchy of ST's answering to admins before players).
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Post by Hardboiled on Oct 24, 2013 13:27:02 GMT -5
That has been on my mind lately. The code in this game really isn't that fucking hard to learn or to work on, I've coded hardware, and software to hardware systems that would make this shit look like jokes. Anaiah is a good example of how you can even take existing code and modify it easily to do other things as well. Why does it take so many fucking years to implement simple things like warehouses when apartment code was already done. The excuse they always give is that its a major coding overhaul. Bullshit. It is just another fucking lie. It might seem like a grand undertaking to someone without a little tiny coding experience but a lot of the stuff at this level can easily be learned overnight anyways. I don't know why it is adhira that comes to mind when i say this, someone who doesn't do as much shit as they advertise making excuses to do less shit. It might not be fair but from her comments on the GDB, even her goodbye comment (yeah like anyone cared) she was really just taking up space it felt. I'm so sorry to hear Anaiah's code wasn't implemented an probably now will never be implemented out of sheer spite most likely. What a waste. Lastly, Tiernan's girlfriend...really? Please don't tell me they were gypsies.  |
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Post by slipshod on Oct 24, 2013 15:27:08 GMT -5
i would believe it is like places in paris.
you have ruins with ruins built on top with a modern city built atop both. with armageddon you have many generations of administrations and coders and builders. i can be understanding the difficulty of fragmentation and disaster that hides in the game. i do not feel anyone would be motivated to be cleaning up the mess for efficiency.
easier to languish in filth and make excuses than pick up a broom and get the things done. it is a common internet people attitude.
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Oct 24, 2013 16:08:44 GMT -5
i would believe it is like places in paris. you have ruins with ruins built on top with a modern city built atop both. with armageddon you have many generations of administrations and coders and builders. i can be understanding the difficulty of fragmentation and disaster that hides in the game. i do not feel anyone would be motivated to be cleaning up the mess for efficiency. easier to languish in filth and make excuses than pick up a broom and get the things done. it is a common internet people attitude. Pretty much this. They've done some pretty crazy things with a simple codebase like Diku (I'm not a coder, but I'd assume there's not much to it, seeing as how I've never seen any other MU* do so much with it), and I would imagine trying to clean it up after so many different people have worked on it would be like untangling a box of christmas lights and headphones that were also on fire. That was one of the reasons they claimed they were going to move to a different codebase with 2.Arm (as opposed to just changing all of the descriptions to get away from Darksun). Even after 2.Arm folded under, they supposedly continued work on the new codebase, but I don't they've even made mention of that in a very long time. |
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Post by delerak on Oct 24, 2013 18:08:58 GMT -5
Programming really is not that hard once you go to college for it. Spend some time making subnet calculators, arrays, writing your own functions, it all becomes pretty clear how mud code works. It's all numbers.
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Post by Hardboiled on Oct 24, 2013 20:55:16 GMT -5
Just buy yourself a book or take a class. It all works out the same at the end. You don't even have to go to college specifically for programming. Not to say college doesn't help and going looks good on a resume when trying to get a job but my friend is excellent at coding in so many languages and he dropped out of high school. He just taught himself through books and internet, and by doing.
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Post by delerak on Oct 24, 2013 21:00:08 GMT -5
Yeah being self taught works too. It's just harder for most people to gather the motivation to spend hours doing it. I taught myself a lot but to be honest I learned a ton more in college than I ever taught myself. There really is no substitute for a good solid teacher and the math I was required to take helped a lot too with logic and discrete math was awesome.
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Post by gloryhound on Feb 27, 2014 15:46:31 GMT -5
Do the staff often mess with skill levels? Especially defense and offense, since people don't see even a coarse measure of those? It sounds plausible enough. "Hey, look at this guy, how did his defense get this high? I don't like him. he must be a twink. -20 to defense!"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2014 16:04:43 GMT -5
No. Not at ST level, at least. You typically need an admin or higher to change any part of a PC or someone with admin privs (which can be some small number of long term ST's, like Rahneyvn may be able to). I've never seen anything set to less without it being part of a quest or the aftermath/fallout of a plotline. I -have- seen animals/npcs/mobs roll up with insane rolls though, because it is random every time one spawns.
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Post by Patuk on Feb 27, 2014 17:37:11 GMT -5
Even sponsored roles get boosts that are negligible. It's why sponsored sergeants tend not to last very long at all.
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Post by BitterFlashback on Feb 28, 2014 2:39:37 GMT -5
Funny how the gyppos got custom piercing tats and no one else did, though. Real funny.  Muark favoritism was pretty rampant the first time I left. nobody was more surprised than me when Nyr was allowed to blow their little private valley right the fuck up. Now I hear they are camped outside of Nak. A city they were just at war with. A city who they shat fire elementals at and wracked with volcanoes. a city they caused a regime change in between the Teks. A city which is inexplicably not exterminating them. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2014 3:26:23 GMT -5
And they're taking apps for Tan Muark characters now. You just can't get rid of them, despite the fact that it has been many years since this clan has actually done anything significant for the game that can be attributed to the clan itself (as opposed to an admin arbitrarily deciding that something was done by them, or individual outstanding characters like Veddi who would have been just as great regardless of the clan).
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Feb 28, 2014 3:27:44 GMT -5
but dude who would keep the gwoshi safe without them?
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Post by gloryhound on Feb 28, 2014 12:28:50 GMT -5
I remember one of the old jokes about the gypsies and their propensity for begin ressurrected: "Dead today, sparring tomorrow".
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Post by BitterFlashback on Mar 1, 2014 2:04:35 GMT -5
but dude who would keep the gwoshi safe without them? I'm pretty sure the gwoshi all got the Pompey treatment. naturally the Muark will "find" some survivors. Fucking favoritist gypsy shitbags. |
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