Community Scripting Project

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by The_Kez

No, because I'm a scripter and I'm already interested in learning to script as I have been since the early GS1 days. I'm saying there are a lot of players on graal interesting in creating a server who are not interested in learning to script, but more interesting in leeching scripts and asking others to do all of their work for them. That has been well known for a long time.

That's your point of view at least. So how do you know they're not interested in learning to script exactly?

I know I learned to script by getting my hands on already done scripts acquired through questionable means. At least that's how I started off.

[The_Kez]

Originally Posted by Inverness

That's your point of view at least. So how do you know they're not interested in learning to script exactly?

I know I learned to script by getting my hands on already done scripts acquired through questionable means. At least that's how I started off.

I'm not saying there are no people who want to learn to script. For those people open source is a good idea, but to say EVERY script uploaded to every server should be open source is unfair to creators of servers who want their scripts to remain theirs and not be copy/pasted to private servers by players who don't want to do any of there own work.

I believe Skyld just temporarily banned an account from this forum called GULTHEX for asking to script help in 6 different forum topics, and you could see by the treads he created and the content in them that he could not have been less interested in learning, he was only interested in taking scripts and copy/pasting them into his server, if he could even be bothered to figure out how to do that.

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by The_Kez

but to say EVERY script uploaded to every server should be open source is unfair to creators of servers who want their scripts to remain theirs and not be copy/pasted to private servers by players who don't want to do any of there own work.

Who cares? If its a private server its not like its going to go Classic if its just a clone of another server or if its just patch worked together with scripts from different places that don't even work together.

If the server were to gain enough quality and uniqueness to go Classic then I highly doubt the scripts will even look like what they were when they were originally taken from elsewhere.

Originally Posted by The_Kez

I believe Skyld just temporarily banned an account from this forum called GULTHEX for asking to script help in 6 different forum topics, and you could see by the treads he created and the content in them that he could not have been less interested in learning, he was only interested in taking scripts and copy/pasting them into his server, if he could even be bothered to figure out how to do that.

He was just banned for making so many topics.

[The_Kez]

Originally Posted by Inverness

Who cares? If its a private server its not like its going to go Classic if its just a clone of another server or if its just patch worked together with scripts from different places that don't even work together.

If the server were to gain enough quality and uniqueness to go Classic then I highly doubt the scripts will even look like what they were when they were originally taken from elsewhere.
He was just banned for making so many topics.

IF it is a private server. There have been enough cases of classic servers stealing from other classic servers already without everything becomming open source. And I doubt the PW admins are going to want the job of policing every single script taken from one classic server and going to another one with tiny insignificant little changes. And I doubt the staff are going to want the job of contacting a PW admin every time they find their script on someone elses server.

There is a code gallery for open source scripts.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Inverness

You joined March 2003, you should know the answer to that.

I didn't become active in the community until long after that.