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Old 10-11-2002, 02:28 AM
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Indeed I did. However, as you cannot (currently) have a server with both an NPCServer and clientside scripts, there's a very fine line that needs to be crossed: on the one side, we have Classic, which works reasonably well and has quite a few players. On the other hand you have an NPCServer, which doesn't work at all yet, would take months of work by hand (during which time NOBODY's working on Classic), and has currently 0 players.
We could start an NPCServer world with the Classic levels, and leave Classic where it is as we convert the NPCServer Classic, but Original Classic would go to hell. We could try and split the difference, but it'd take twice as long to do the NPCServer version of Classic and twice as long to fix the same bug on both servers...

It's just not practical to POOF open an NPCServer on Classic, or open a copy of Classic with an NPCServer, unless Com013 successfully makes a Clientside->NPCServ batch converter (which he's close to finishing with the recent addition of the fabled .graal->.nw converter) or Stefan makes a Partial NPCServer so we can spend a weekend converting one thing at a time - gelats, baddies, weapons, etc - until Classic is 100% NPCServerified.
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