DikuMUD may be the foundation of the mmo revolution we seek

provocating · #1 10-13-2015, 08:36 AM

You are trolling at this point.

MarcusD · #2 10-13-2015, 10:19 AM

It is the only real way forward. I will help adriand to learn about the nuts and bolts of the game but best case scenario reworking the database would get us a product like p99 bugs and all. I think for the same amount of work we could make a new game and engine that is better than eq. There aren't any tools 989 had 19 years ago that we don't have. I don't mind hard work but I would rather save myself 12,000 hours wasted time if possible, and use that time to build something right instead of a hackjob.

chrsschb · #3 10-13-2015, 10:21 AM

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It is the only real way forward. I will help adriand to learn about the nuts and bolts of the game but best case scenario reworking the database would get us a product like p99 bugs and all. I think for the same amount of work we could make a new game and engine that is better than eq. There aren't any tools 989 had 19 years ago that we don't have.

I'm not having any problems creating the game I want using the tools and resources already available to me. But hey man, you're more than welcome to recreate the wheel.

Cilraaz · #4 10-13-2015, 10:22 AM

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I'm not having any problems creating the game I want using the tools and resources already available to me. But hey man, you're more than welcome to recreate the wheel.

Gonna be tough to reinvent the wheel without any coding or database knowledge, though.

chrsschb · #5 10-13-2015, 10:27 AM

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Gonna be tough to reinvent the wheel without any coding or database knowledge, though.

MarcusD · #6 10-13-2015, 10:28 AM

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Gonna be tough to reinvent the wheel without any coding or database knowledge, though.

My quest is to reverse engineer everquest and the deeper back you go the easier it is to learn. Do you suggest I learn coding by looking at eq code or dikumud code? Dikumud is a large step more basic. Its the difference of learning to speak japanese vs trying to learn japanese from encrypted messages.

chrsschb · #7 10-13-2015, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by MarcusD

My quest is to reverse engineer everquest and the deeper back you go the easier it is to learn. Do you suggest I learn coding by looking at eq code or dikumud code? Dikumud is a large step more basic. Its the difference of learning to speak japanese vs trying to learn japanese from encrypted messages.

Trolling aside, I would suggest you learn code by actually coding.

provocating · #8 10-13-2015, 10:33 AM

I am not normally one for meme's, but I will leave this here. Thanks.

image · #9 10-13-2015, 10:51 AM

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I am not normally one for meme's, but I will leave this here. Thanks.

Lol and troll has made eqemu forums more lively than they have been for years. Scary.

provocating · #10 12-09-2015, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by MarcusD

My quest is to reverse engineer everquest and the deeper back you go the easier it is to learn. Do you suggest I learn coding by looking at eq code or dikumud code? Dikumud is a large step more basic. Its the difference of learning to speak japanese vs trying to learn japanese from encrypted messages.

So what kind of progress have you made MarcusD?

MarcusD · #11 10-13-2015, 10:51 AM

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I'm not having any problems creating the game I want using the tools and resources already available to me. But hey man, you're more than welcome to recreate the wheel.

Thats great but what I am getting at is a bunch of people want a reversion to classic EQ in order to create a clean slate to build on. But it has been evidenced by p99 that it isn't really possible in even 12,000 hours to achieve that clean slate original everquest. But we can achieve a very clean slate, the same slate eq used, by using dikumud.