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Originally Posted by Horrified
There's only about a handful of rediculously great scripters on Graalonline, for example. I mean people that have taken college courses. One of them is, of course, Stefan. I'm sure you can pick out the others. These guys can tackle big things
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I agree with a lot of things posted in this thread, and much of your post, but I think this is the entirely wrong attitude. Programming and especially gscript is not some mysterious craft that only a select few can learn.
Graal basically provides the game "architecture" anyway. If you were supposed to write your entirely own game, you could easily run into a lot of bad decisions that make everything harder, but in Graal you can mostly just throw more code at whatever problem until it goes away. If you have a few competent (not necessarily "rediculous") people figuring out how everything fits together, scripting a very custom server is not rocket science.
I do not want to belittle awesome scripters or claim that they do not deserve the respect they receive, because I do think that they are what really makes or breaks playerworlds. But if people had a bit less awe and more of a "I am going to figure out how this works" attitude, they could get much further. If all those people who are all "hey I am not a scripter I just do ____" got to terms with the fact that scripting is supremely important for server development and just went ahead and learned it, I am sure we would have a lot more interesting servers or at least ideas in the game, even if they use the default graphics or reuse old artwork.