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Originally posted by Delteria_Free18
C would be my preference, and the point isnt about the language it is ported to but what extra things developers could create on their own without having to wait for stefan to update anything.
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I knew that
I was just letting people know that Delphi isn't bad (because I use and like it) since it can do anything that C/C++ compilers can do and faster
although it's not as widely used on operating systems other than Windows and occassionally Linux (with or without Kylix), but could be
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about the source code being available to the public:
yes, I'd (also) like to be able to modify and add a lot of it, but there are a lot of problems that outweigh the benefits of releasing it I think..
believing that more than a few people would want to do something with it, how would it with all of the different ideas, different coding styles, distances between us and simultaneous modifications (including from Stefan) etc. be easily done?
it would take a lot of organization, unless we maybe only submitted code segments to Stefan (which would also take time to get approved and modified if needed)
besides this, you also mentioned using a different language, which would take more time to initially do and then later for translating back to the original, unless you weren't planning on giving any of the updates back, which wouldn't benefit us much again unless we had mulitple releases of the Graal client and server, which would probably be confusing and possibly even time-consuming for the majority of players -- if you'd be planning on starting your own server and client at a different place, that would possibly take customers away from here and most likely wouldn't be approved
there are also other problems such as people using the code to create their "own game" with a different name and not even giving credit to Graal, cheaters learning more about the client (and server(?)) for their advantage and being able to modify sections to exploit certain things at their will.. the list could go on and on, so I don't understand how much good can come out of this besides people having personal fun with it, but that's just my opinion (I'm sure that you'll post yours)
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if source code was sold servers that are modified/enhanced beyond the ability of the current client, software modules could be created for the client, when connecting to the server a routine could tell it which module to use so that custom games can be created within the same game...
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having "modules" for a modified client and/or server most likely wouldn't work too well.. it would have to allow the other servers and clients to run on their own
having some type of server scripting language and a more low-level client scripting language might be an alternative, but obviously wouldn't allow total customization (read the rest of my post about this)
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