Taron,
You are asking somebody who is new to our code, has spent less than 2 weeks inside of it,and hasn't even broken its surface.
He has not really had a chance to even get his feet wet and you expect the poor guy's answers to be remotely correct. Honesty, you get what you asked for, accuracy in a situation like this wasn't going to be the case. He was most likely looking at what affects MAX_DEX has and there are none. However, there is a dex structure ( there is this for all stats )which gives bonuses based on what your current stats are. He most likely didn't notice this, After all, our code is hundreds of thousands of lines and you have to know where to look. I've been inside our code for nearly 17-18 years and I still can't find quick and accurate answers to some questions.
Technically speaking, he is correct though. Max_Stat items simply increases that statistic...
Max dex does exactly what is says in the helpfile, as does all the max stats and their helpfiles, which I spent hours on creating and back tracing through the code.
I am going to say this one last time, there isn't a snow balls chance in hell we are releasing our code and going open source. We will not be releasing our code to anyone other than our programmers and Immortals. If there are helpfiles which players want, please feel free to ask. If there are helpfiles players want us to be a bit more specific, please feel free to ask...
Our game is extremely well documented and we spent a great deal of time recently making it possible to edit and add helpfiles with a click of a button. If we feel a player's request warrants an addition to our documentation, we have no issues doing so.