
11-28-2006, 09:25 AM
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Psionic Youth
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Babord, West Graal Deaths:1009 Kills:1
Posts: 5,635
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That's always the problem with Graal; a lot of people's work is, by its nature, invisible. I was lucky to work in the LAT during the development heyday - when I made something you could see it, when I fixed something I could report it. But this, this finegaling - "I fixed the z-intercept of the thrown projectile script"? You spend all day developing and have nothing to show for it, it's barbaric.
Worse was Peach's job. GP Captain in peacetime. If nothing happens, he's doing a good job - if you even see him online, he's let one slip.
Point? *shrugs* I quit the LAT because I knew someone else would care about the job more than I did. Com was a better scripter than I was and had (at the time) more time to dedicate to it. Turned out he didn't last all that long - mostly because the position of LAT Admin is/was primarily administrative, hirings and firings and directing and cajoling and trying to get the team to work at the same purpose, very little actual scripting involved...(oh great, now I'm catching a cold, perfect...)
It's the system, man. The Beast. Massokre and Masterstorm spend all their time reworking a massive ugly script that basically says "Act just like Classic used to when movement and damage were default. But so it works with serverside scripting and the NPCServer." Then who's free to develop, to decide which of the 9 maps of Classic is the right one, to bring back baddies and say "This is the Baddy script, it is not negotiable"?
I'd do it if I wasn't working, but I doubt anyone'd let me in all fairness. I had my chance. |
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