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Re: My wheels are turning Fri, 30 May 2014 03:24 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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[quote title=m.a@stars wrote on Fri, 18 April 2014 12:53]CrazyBS wrote on Fri, 18 April 2014 16:37

This should have been a community project from the start, years ago. Instead all we have is several amazing solo efforts that have sputtered and all but vanished. Sad


I can't shake the feeling this is closely linked with with the closed source approach in this community.

For instance, I had started on a Python API for turn generation and information extraction. Nothing fancy, just a personal itch to scratch and an idea for a weekend hobby-programming project.

However, looking through the forum and old mailinglists was extremely demotivating. If there has been no effort towards reverse-engineering and extending, it would be not so bad, a challenge to discover things first. But now you need to thrawl through years of dead initiatives and vague ideas, and realise that you are wasting those scarce weekend programming hours on repeating effort.

For instance, this API-thread is baffeling. A closed source, invite-only project to develop an API. Dead after two years, all effort apparently lost.

And it is not that the information on password decryption, file structure, etc. is not available somewhere. Patched EXE's have been floating around for decades, people "in the know" have shared and independently reversed-engineerd the encryption and (largely) the file format. So you know that both other programmers and cheaters have that advantage, it is just you that are stuck when you want to write something.

But as a lurker I can't go around demanding what people or the community does with their code/effort. I'm just going to keep visiting this forum every half a year, looking at how the community dwindles, previous knowledge dissapears, until hopelfully some day the fear of a dead community overtakes the fear of cheaters.

On a positive note: if you are going for a fully open source project, I'm willing to pitch in time/code working on the JSON-interface.

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