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[Brian]

At 05:36 PM 5/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Another thing is that the skill/spell tree is being completely reworked.

How many times have people said that something is being "completely
reworked" or "totally overhauled" or "rewritten from the ground up" in the
past year or two?  And how many times has it actually happened?

Let me ask you this:  Are you REALLY going to invest the time -- and not
just the initial time to DO everything, but the years afterwards to
MAINTAIN everything -- that's needed into this?  This isn't the first time
that huge changes like this have been suggested, or started upon.  But as
far as I can tell, nothing substantive has actually taken place on the MUD
in over a YEAR.  Sure, there was this great period of maybe a month after
the ownership changed where lots of ideas were tossed about and everyone
got really excited, but NOTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED.  And again a couple of
months ago when we tried to "revive" things -- lots of talk, everyone got
their hopes up, but NOTHING HAPPENED.  I'm sorry, but I really have
problems believing that anyone is going to stick with this.  It hasn't
happened in the past.

Let's face it.  In the beginning, Scry was a real, genuine MUD.  It had a
really strong community and everything.  But over time, the MUD part of it
has died off.  The community has mostly stuck together.  It seems to me
that the community doesn't want to break up, and so they're trying to keep
the MUD "alive".  But the community could just as well hang out in IRC as
on a MUD, and there's a lot less time involved in managing an IRC server.

I'm sorry if I sound overly angry about this, but that's because I am
pretty angry.  I've spent a fair slice of my life on Scry for over six
years -- I watched it grow, and I watched it prosper, and I watched it fade
away.  I've watched it start to come back several times now, and each time
it fades away again.  I think that, before going through all that again,
people really need to evaluate how much interest they have in it, and why
it is that they're doing it.

If someone truly has the interest and desire to bring Scry back, then by
all means, go for it.  But if no one does, then please, for the sake of
everyone who's put countless hours into the game, don't pretend that you do.

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brian at mythica.org