PEQ server

[dragos56]

1. didnt mean to hijack, the 2 posts before my first one was the only thing i was commenting on. The subject of the post kinda swayed to content and not so much PeQ.

2. I'm not a programmer, i dont know who does what. All i know is what works and the God content on some of the other servers does work and works pretty well given how new it is. Your code or not... it works (that was the only point)

3. Cavedude, you've always been cool with me. Really not sure why this is such a sensitive issue.

Someone said things get put out without being polished or playable, while i agree that there is need for polishing in a few zones released. Thats the whole point of this whole project isnt it.

I never once meant to not give credit to all you guys. Pretty sure i gave you guys props all day long in my posts. People are going to build upon your work, they are going to have the same hobbies and interests as you guys. They may even be really good at it; we gonna assume they are all leechs because they benefit from the foundations which you guys laid?

Green status?

This is my last post as its unnecessary to continue. Take 2 things from my post.

Sorry for the unintended hijack and you guys have given tremendous gifts to this project.

[Secrets]

Originally Posted by dragos56

People are going to build upon your work, they are going to have the same hobbies and interests as you guys. They may even be really good at it; we gonna assume they are all leechs because they benefit from the foundations which you guys laid?

PEQ has a database readily available for everyone. They're continuing to take submissions from the community, and because one person wants to make improvements without contributing back to the project... that just seems unreasonable to me.

I'm not saying everything should be open-source, but if you are using content and building content on the same goals that PEQ lives by, you should at least submit content to PEQ and help them out instead of making your own closed database project.

As for communities, you are entitled to make your own community, it's just frowned upon deeply when you take and take and take and never give back to the community that helped you get your database populated for the most part.

As for me? I personally don't contribute my custom content back to PEQ because it doesn't fit the live-like goals of ProjectEQ, and EQEmu for that matter. They would have no need for it, and it wouldn't be accepted into SVN. That's why I made my own googlecode page with my own code and merge what I feel is needed. And that way, they can check my page and say, "Oh, Secrets did it that way, that's a better way to code that than I did! Let's use it.", not "Oh, I'm totally gonna steal that idea from Secrets! I hate that rival coding project!"

It's just when two people are doing the same work for different projects and those two projects don't share with each other is when I, and likely many others, get upset. I hope I don't come off as aggressive, but that's how I feel.

[cavedude]

dragos56: My post was entirely directed at the server's developers. The hijack I was more concerned with was the second post by EqTitan. I used your post to reply as a jumping off point to touch on some subjects. If you have nothing to do with the server other than as a player, then I wholeheartedly apologize for the confusion.