Why do scripters make everything overly complex?

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by Skyld

The problem in my experience is that people create complex ideas which can't be implemented with simple scripting. The "mudlib" is a classic example of this problem that I see over and over again; people want to make really complicated systems that are probably quite powerful in practice, but the reality is that nobody else can understand half of what these systems do or how they work, and therefore are difficult to expand and maintain. I get really frustrated with watching some of the advice that people give on these forums because it is often just unnecessarily overcomplicated, and as a result, new scripters don't want to learn it.

As much of the problem as anything is that Graal scripters also just don't seem to know how to exist within the confines of the game environment. The NPC-Server isn't a general purpose web application server, it runs scripts for a game environment. I don't know why more people don't see that.

Preach on! Especially on the bit about servers being there for Game Environments.