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Originally Posted by Vexenu
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Bind Wound in combat is actually a good example. Trying to "prove" that combat Bind Wound did not exist back in the day is basically impossible, just like it's impossible to prove that GINA did not exist.
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Well, no. If GINA was created for windows framework 4.0 it did in fact not exist in the era we are playing. So unless there is a reference I missed on his forums site then i would say GINA itself did not exist.
A program like GINA *could* have existed but no one except for one player here has mentioned it. That is because he wrote an "accurate but questionable" program that he used for personal use because "it wasn't good enough to share or sell". We wouldn't find this program on a website or a forum because it wasn't shared, so far only one guy would have used it and claims such.
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Originally Posted by dekova
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Yeah, the stuff I coded was way too janky to share and/or sell, even if I ever wanted to. I think the text strings it looked for were mostly hardcoded; I don't know that I even had an understanding of regex then.
The thing is, there is really nothing hard about programming a log reader. Displaying data may be a bit harder, but even in 1999 you could have done it all - soup to nuts - in something as simple as microsoft excel or access. Saying that I was some kind of prodigy because - out of the million or so EQ players - I was the only one with the insight or talent to do this is flattering but very likely inaccurate.
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GINA looks to have been put in after the Velious era, this is not totally certain as I have not scoured the GINA forum for an exact date.