Posted by Abernyte the curious cat today on September 29, 2000 at 02:51:54:

In Reply to: The obligatory response posted by Nepenthe(IMM) on September 28, 2000 at 22:01:18:

> > Nepenthe: This is in reference to a response you did on the Boards about how the person who knows how
> > to code forms left and so there would be no new ones.
> > --------

> I was biting my tongue something fierce when I made that post, because at the time the form had been coded and waiting for around two months. For a while (as I understand it) Hiff and Zulg kept missing each other and then Hiff up and disappeared.

> But you know what? It did take some time. Some of us work long hours and just plain don't have a few hours in a row to throw together on something like that at the drop of a hat. I think the shifting setup is pretty cool and all but frankly I could use some of it as a "what not to do" style guide on writing clear code that other human beings can understand. Would it be much easier to do now again, sure.

> > While they may smite me for oversimplifying, adding a form most likely
> > takes no effort greater than that of adding a mobile to an Areafile, and
> > recompiling the code (presuming said forms are in .C not .Are files)

> Psst. . .I don't know if you noticed, but basically every form additionally has some special attack, defense, or neat thing it does. Some of those are harder than others.

>
> I don't know if a role can even be dug up at this point, but I'll have a look.

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