If someone is truely serious about building a mud, like myself and many
others on this list, we really just want a base to build our own thing
from. If ROM is maintained, and new features added regularly, well, that
works only for those OLC survivors who prefer to do it all in game, and no
extra code besides the default, which is where spinoffs such as QuickMUD
come in. Out of the box, ready to roll. And depending on your 'style' of
mud, you chose the appropriate code base to work with. ROM is obviously
your standard RPG run-of-the-mill mud out there, and it does it well. It is
basic enough where you can easily reprogram the entire thing to do exactly
what you want, which is what a lot have done. But 'the_sage' wanting to
build his own OLC, despite the original OLC that has been around for years
and years and year and years is already very popular and very implimented,
is more or less a waste of his time. As Michael specified in the OLC topic,
its better to just produce an edition of the work, with custom additions.
Just make sure you dont violate licenses, and keep the code clean and
working with the original intended systems..
--
leming
At 23:42 3/13/2002 -0600, you wrote:
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Tony Hoyt wrote:
> ><snip>
> >>P.S. Ivan -- if your reading this, please don't think I'm challenging
> >>you, heh.
> ></snip>
> >right, you are probably just ripping him, and others.. *shrug*
>
> I'm starting to get a vibe that there's a lot of flameing going on around
> here. Perhaps a lot of "Not Built Here" Syndrome with the code base? I
No, the rest of us write our muds from scratch.. *cough*.
> mean really, I think if your going to have a codebase like ROM, it
should be
> updated by someone, with an array of decent features for any style MUD. It
> seems to me that right now It's abandonded and people work on 'variation'
> projects but for some reason, none pick up the cult status of original ROM.
> Am I true or overly generalizing from just a short amount of observation?
I'd be quite happy if my game did _not_ reach the "cult status" of ROM.
But I don't suspect people here would understand the reasons why...
--
Dominic J. Eidson
"Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" -
Gimli
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