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Well instead of adding new areas, how about recoded closed ones and reopening
them.
them.
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Lavin wrote:
Well instead of adding new areas, how about recoded closed ones and reopening
them.
them.
against it:
1) Reading someone else's code is a pain in the ass. Some people don't obey
normal coding standards.
2) The standards of some older areas are really rock-bottom. Most of those
really old areas belong to this category. Visit the 'King Arthur' area and you
will see what I mean. 1-line longdescs, bugging syntaxchecking (give grail to
arthur) etcetera. It's just not worth it.
3) If the area is re-written with new descs and so on, the theme isn't
guaranteed to survive like the original coder wanted.
4) Coders like to have areas of their own. Something they created and can
watch people abu^H^H^H enjoy.
5) It's easier and more fun to build a new world with imagination, paper and
pencil, than to rewrite something that has been poorly done. You get to put in
your own (often brilliant) ideas. Not just shovel up someone else's manure.
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Malar
I understand everything you've written and it makes a lot of sense.
Naturally, people want their own areas and don't want to clean up other
people's messes.
But, I understand that closed areas still count as 'explore' areas and that
while they remain closed, the prevent newer players from achieving
superlatively high explore counts. This has a negative consequence on those
of use who have taken to exploring since those areas have been closed.
If these areas, in fact, do not count against us, then complaining against
their being closed is simply whining. But, if they do count against us, then
we have a legitimate gripe. And, even if an area is coded poorly (you cited
Arthur, but Tiburcio, for example, is considerably worse from a descriptive
standpoint), then I feel that there is a duty to either reopen the areas or
close them down permenently such that explore is wiped from the counter.
Just my two cents.
Zalcon
I understand everything you've written and it makes a lot of sense.
Naturally, people want their own areas and don't want to clean up other
people's messes.
But, I understand that closed areas still count as 'explore' areas and that
while they remain closed, the prevent newer players from achieving
superlatively high explore counts. This has a negative consequence on those
of use who have taken to exploring since those areas have been closed.
If these areas, in fact, do not count against us, then complaining against
their being closed is simply whining. But, if they do count against us, then
we have a legitimate gripe. And, even if an area is coded poorly (you cited
Arthur, but Tiburcio, for example, is considerably worse from a descriptive
standpoint), then I feel that there is a duty to either reopen the areas or
close them down permenently such that explore is wiped from the counter.
Just my two cents.
Zalcon
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