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Clone the game, test in a test environment, find out what works and how to best transition on the live environment.

Color me interested. I'll be even more interested as you build upon your spheres. I like this. This feels nice.

Also, if you need occasional help with random bits of code, I'm always around and am highly motivated by two things: Eclipse Phase and Shadowrun.

I don't miss Ohio. My wife lived there for a very short period of time (2 months? It was weird). My dad lived in that strange Children of the Corn area outside of Toledo and straddling Ohio and Michigan. Shit got scary. His most immediate neighbor had a daughter who was 3 forever. She would always be outside riding her little tricycle when we would come to town. There was also a cemetery nearby, so my wife and I theorized she was actually from there.

Fleas. Every hotel had fleas. There would somehow be a Dog Show no matter where we were. Random hotel in the cornfields? Dog Show. Stopping in Cincinnati for the night? Dog Show.

Things I like about Ohio:
The food.
Random artsy coffee shops in the middle of cornfield land. These places were like The Field of Dreams but for coffee enthusiasts.
The long stretches of straight road. Because I have a fast car and my wife and I sometimes like to go fast.

Edit: This is supposed to be about dating Theno, sorry:

I should date Theno because I would take him from Ohio, thus saving him from the Children of the Corn.

I know @Reason touched on the following, but I wanted to remind people in this thread (Reason mentioned this in the ShadowRun thread). Here are several places where you can learn Python programming for free:

@Reason mentioned University of Michigan offering free Course at www.coursera.org/learn/python.

There is Cybrary (cybrary.it)that offers Python for Security Professionals, which is actually set up to take you from knowing nothing of Python to... well... knowing enough about Python to automate some of your security tasks.

Finally, there is Codeacademy (www.codeacademy.com) that aims to be a straight hands on learning experience in a similar (to me) vein as the book Learn Python the Hard Way.

Additionally, local libraries and online resources such as Safari books have a ton of material dedicated to teaching you Python for free.

I vote this thread as the best thread.

I'm willing to put in assistance where I can. I come from mostly a Python programming background, but can fumble around other codebases.

Failing that, I can fill in where needed for building/descing/pestering you all to get this up and going/providing pictures of pizza and beer.

Babylon 5!

@surreality I can't believe Cybersphere is still around after all this time. Sindome, too.

Define Scifi. Sindome is like #3 on the overall text based games list right now (aggressive voting) which makes it #1 for Scifi at the moment. I don't know about 2 and 3.

Feel free. I don't even know where to play a Changeling on a MUSH.

Fun game. CS and Sindome are the only two MOOs I've ever played. I used the MUD aspect of it as a backdrop to the RP I regularly had. Even the decker/hacker types would get together in some of the matrix locations and rock out on some RP while sharing tense RP moments.

Tons of things to do if you look. The majority of the olbies I've ever ran into are pretty awesome to interact with. I've not had a real problem with any of them other than one time where I got cocky and tried to take one of them out. He wrecked me then told my clone, "Hey, found your shit. Want it?" Then gave it right to me. I think he and I fought two or three more times (I lost every time, but it was fun).

So, like @faraday mentions, AresMUSH (and Evennia), while they don't have all the answers yet, have a lot of them. Did you know that it is relatively easy to implement an @mail system where all of this @mail dude=<title>/<Stuff> or whatever is hidden behind a simple popup where you fill in the fields and vwoosh, @mail sent?

Same with the +bb system. Make it clickable. Pueblo Enhancements have been around for ages. Speaking of the +bb system. It's just a blog or forum post. Why not export/link all of that to an actual forum or blog? Can be done, has been done.

Shit, I don't know Ruby / Ruby on Rails and now I'm sitting here thinking how hard it might be to implement all of this stuff for AresMUSH.

--- ANYWAY, what I'm saying is that: Let's start putting brains together and start collaborating on implementing methods to abstract all of the scary code and put in its place easy to use interfaces that are more or less intuitive? I'm down.

Edit: I should read the entire thread instead of jumping in at like 25.

Under 30 days? Still fresh enough to not be threadmancy!

To any of you who might have been interested in the Degenesis setting, they just released a campaign splat focused around a particular area that used to be France.

I have some, I'm passionate, but I have ZERO time. I try to hop on and help here and there, but I don't produce much / anything. Regardless, just knowing people are still pretty interested in this happening is encouraging!

@ashen-shugar You have me on the wrong end, there. I'm not talking about this as me being the end user admin. I'm talking about this from the framework development standpoint.

I already know for a fact that Evennia has the capability. Hell, a chunk of Evennia's code is just Django (and Twisted and whatnot) but with the word Evennia sprinkled in... I also don't mean that in a negative way, by the way. They've done a ton of awesome extra customization to get to where they are today.

Anyway, I digress. Using Evennia's web interface, you can type something like 'help @create' and it will create a popup for you so that you can read the help file while not filling your main text screen. You can implement this to be used for an @mail system. Type @mail <username> and it should pop up a window with the user field already filled in, and the option to add more, have a subject line, and a body box or whatever.

I also know (I haven't checked in the past month) that they are working on setting it up so some of the stuff that Iron Realms showcases (their chat windows being split off) are built right into the framework.

Anyway, what I am getting at is: As time goes on, we as developers should start looking at some of these things that experienced users take for granted and see how we can make the user experience a little better. I remember when the new bog standard +bb system started popping up. Holy crap, that was badass. I HATED the older boards people implemented. They weren't intuitive at all (Only ones I can think of at the moment are one of the Lord of The Rings ones and an old B5 one)... This newer generation coming up behind us is likely thinking the same thing about our awesome +bb and @mail systems.

I'll go to bed now. I'm rambling.

I joined the Yaks as a first character but kept it so low key that no one knew. Second character... Well... It was fun actively being part of organized crime.

... And if I could help pay said paycheck, I totally would.