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Re: Classes, Race, Experience proposal



> Mark Wedel wrote:
>  I don't know if I am willing to put that much work into separating
> everything out.  It would be a pretty substantial project.  In fact, it
> would probably be a major re-write of a lot of the code.

Then Scott MacFiggen wrote:
>         I too agree that game mechanics should be separated from the
> game engine.  Here is how I see it.  The game up to this point has
> consisted of alot of people hacking little parts of the code.  This has
> caused the code to become messy and big.  The game would benefit greatly
> if someone sat down and did alot of spring cleaning.  If we decide to
> implement ERic's idea then cleaning up the code could happen in parallel.
> It all comes down to how devoted everybody is to making a good game.  Do
> we want to just hack what we have and release it or do we want to do the
> best job we can.  Summer just started so this would be a good time to begin
> a major project.

I think this re-writing needs to be done. I'd be happy to play the current
version for 4 or 5 months while all this re-writing was going on. I think
a major spring-clean needs to be done at some point, and this does seem
like the ideal opportunity to start all this, as several people have pointed
out now. In fact, it's getting quite tiring having to update our local software
once every two weeks, as I have to do at the moment :-)

Sy