Hi guys I hope you are all well.
I am not trying to be smart here, but I believe I deserve some consideration for my past contributions.
The first thing is Utopia the server pack.
I have made a ready-to-go pack including the server already compiled, with with full DB (PNJ, Mobs, ...) and a couple of scripts available under the form of a nice pack.
This contribution alone helped to gather lots of new bloods in the community, such as Overdriven (Correct me if I am wrong) and others who were then able to have a shard up and running in a couple of minutes. This has helped them out a lot in term of understanding since the pack was also documented (Were are the scripts, databases...).
Several shards owners were not happy since "newbies" were able to start their own shard and took more and more place in the "market".
I can understand that, but anyway, I made this, with a few good people help, and nonetheless it helped out lots of people to start in DOL.
I have also made some significant contributions later on when I stopped the pack to run a shard on my own.
I release many scripts and DB, which are now commonly used by the major shards.
I published the full Catacomb DB, made by others and myself, but we actually released them all.
I also was the first one to publish the horse items DB, in full.
I also was the first one to publish all the Champions Weapons, in full.
I also published before anyone else, the full DB of the ML, with blank handlers, cause I had a few only, but nonetheless I published all the stuffs I had.
I also published the few ML handlers (3-4)I had done so far, nobody ever did that. They have been used later by some to continue the work.
Some references:
August 2006:Darkness Rising horses DB
http://www.rumandcode.com/vbb/showthrea ... ht=Fooljam
September 2006: Spell Database submission (ML, Classic, RA, Catacomb...)
http://www.rumandcode.com/vbb/showthrea ... ht=Fooljam
September 2006: Master Level NPC
http://www.rumandcode.com/vbb/showthrea ... #post11138
October 2006:Universal drop system
http://www.rumandcode.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=1775
October 2005: Utopia Item Factory
A tool to create items on the fly with GUI etc.
A nice beta tool that I have written with the help of my friend Dre and published.
And this has been taken over by somebody I don't remember the name.
I also published the "stats" scripts, to show player's status, can't find the reference though.
And many others that I can't recall.
Today I notice lots of those things are being used, and I pleased about that.
I have been a bitch sometimes, it was not justified, I am thinking about Etaew for example, but most of the time it was justified against the others.
We were all fighting against each other to have the most populated shard, and looking back I have been childish sometimes. But I am not the only one
Many shard owners were not publishing their code/db, I was fighting against that and eventually I made things change a bit.
I was the only one to publish massive amount of scripts, databases, while others were only contributing slowly by fixing some bugs such as the Peps from Purga.
Many of them were keeping scripts for them self, while myself I contributed a lot. hopefully this has changed now.
I am not in the center or the reason of everything, Etaew, Smallhorse, Overdriven, Cisien, Alex_Dev, Purga devs, Deer_Hunter and the others have contributed a lot as well, but I believe I brought some significant contributions to the DOL community.
Thank you guys I miss you
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