Is P99 "finished"?

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by Zaela [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Best that could be done to "submit" something is to say "if you were a stock EQEmu server, what you would need to change is ...", which is basically just giving hints for some other coder to hopefully care enough about to interpret and apply to the actual code. Not a whole lot better than just making a post describing the bug in the first place.

That falls under what I meant by submit, and I totally disagree here. Totally absurd to say that making a post like this isn't a whole lot better than just making a post describing a bug. One scratches the surface, the other is for all intents and purposes a code submission. And from what it looks like, every monk on P99 with an epic owes you their gratitude.

Originally Posted by Zaela [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The act of explaining something is a great way to examine your own assumptions about it, and occasionally realize ways of solving a problem that you hadn't thought of before. Essential impulse for a developer to have! Although at the end of the day, just thinking about how to explain something is as good as actually doing it...

Agreed, but that's assuming you're explaining something that needs to be explained, or is worth explaining. And there's a point of diminishing returns for the developer - answering a question about a specific mechanic might be hugely beneficial for both the developer and the layman asking the question, and anyone else reading the response, but answering that same question for the fifth or sixth time is only satisfying one person who didn't bother to do a little bit of research while completely wasting the developer's time.