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Originally Posted by Inverness

Creating fancy systems to download packages directly to servers is an unnecessary waste of time for little gain. There are far more important and practical ways to invest time. The GDT is not too good to use the code gallery like every other "common Joe."

No it's not and yes it is. There's no point to the GDT if we're going to do things that we could do without being part of an officially sanctioned group (and I use that term loosely). If we do things that way, then there's no real sense that the GDT is doing anything remarkably special. That lack only deepens the overall opinion that GraalOnline, as an institution, is a complete failure. (If you need proof, here's this: the amount of things released into the Code Gallery by the GDT hasn't been any slower than the amount of things submitted by regular scripters. Yet, the GDT is called useless, not the general developing populace. We aren't supposed to be the average developers, and limiting ourselves to that is self-defeating.)

Also, a direct 'plug-in' mechanism was one of the major things discussed, and what made me first interested in the GDT.

Originally Posted by Inverness

And creating servers is not in the realm of what the GDT is about.

You would be the kind of person I'm talking about when I speak of people that predetermine and limit the GDT to the most absolutely boring of functions. There is nothing, aside from Inverness saying so, preventing the GDT from actually developing something seriously consequential. I would prefer to create an original server, but I would be equally pleased to just develop an existing server (like Delteria Dev). The key word is "server". We can only help Graal so much by releasing packs that help an ever-decreasing pool of developers.

Originally Posted by salesman

There can still be a Zelda-themed server or two (preferably one backed by CJ), but as a "development platform" it really limits your developers and in return, what types of worlds/games they can make.

Being able to choose from a few different base themes would actually be pretty nice.