On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Chi Hoai Tran wrote: > I believe in this strongly - that is why when I give out tips, I > merely give a general guideline which should be no trouble at all for > an average C coder. Anyways, if you think you can run a mud without > that much knowledge of C - go for it. Here is my opinion / process on helping ppl on the list, which is quite similar. I usually say "Hmm, you would prolly wanna look here and here at so and so..." then perhaps a little snippet of pseudo code to get the average C coder on this list the ability to work it out for themselves. When I simply post code, 2 things happen. 1) I get flamed by the self proclaimed gurus how much better it could be and 2) whoever takes the code basically learns nothing and will ask a similar question 3 days later. Of course, when it's something non trivial, like spawning off shells, I have no problem handin out code, cause then I want you gurus to rip it apart. IMHO there are basically two types of newbies here, those who ask for assistance which I don't mind helpin out, and those who lean more towards demanding for everybody else to give them code... blah blah I won't waste more bandwidth on this :P > BUT, if you have mudders like > what we get on Dark Realms, you will be in BIG trouble. They are the > reasons I can give out how to dupe eq recipes *grin*. No matter > how many backdoors etc I close off, those mudders find more ways to > crash the mud. Yes! In fact, I give out 5 levels to whoever finds a crash bug on RoA and reports it. (course I annihilate anyone who exploits one :P) > My advice to you - spend hours and hours on the code, just reading > it before you even think about putting the mud up, but then again, > you might not be fortunate (?) enough to have the same mudders as mine. > Agreed. jtrhone aka vall RoA +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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