by jezer » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:35 pm
I know your being sarcastic there weasel, but you actually bring up a good point... as a programmer, and project manager... I know what it's like to be nagged at for program features. But if idea's are good... honestly I don't personally care if it's a lot of work. With the amazing and probably large amounts of work Akasha has put into the epic system, maybe he feels the same way. Of course what one thinks is a good idea, one will always think is a stupid idea.
Some may disagree with me on this... but once a program has been in development for a lot of years... it becomes fragmented. Different systems tend to overlap and they don't work well with each other.
We have report, score, finger, rank, who, prompts, etc etc... All these commands overlap, and whenever a new feature is added... it's often added to one command and not the other.
If you REALLY want to fix things... and hey, I'm not saying anything is broke... I don't actually have any honor in sloth *blush*... the best way is to make one centralized management system, that can work for all commands. Basically all player variables can be easily added to prompts, score, finger etc etc by use of dynamically adding scripts. It's work to setup, but it kind of makes things "fixed forever."
I do that a lot in my line of work, because you just learn, managers change there minds every few days about things. Centralising ideas, grouping them, and allowing for easy management always wins the day in the long run.