Everquest Classic 2.0!

[porigromus]

Originally Posted by gloine36 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Definitely a situation where instancing is the practical and right thing to do. Messing with the starter zones is not a good way to help your population.

Who cares about gnomes? I kid!

[fadetree]

I work in IT but do not know how to program. I work with programmers, I often think about learning to program but feel I may be too old now to try!

You are not too old to try. Most programming is not actually as hard as people think. Its just a bunch of details and terminology to learn; the rest is mostly just common sense. Its like working on cars or building furniture, you've got to learn the tools and the basic ideas but its not mysterious rocket surgery.

[knottyb0y]

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

I work in IT but do not know how to program. I work with programmers, I often think about learning to program but feel I may be too old now to try!

There are a lot of free resources online to learn how to code and free IDE's (integrated development environments) to code in. Eclipse is a good one, can be used for coding Java, C++, Actionscript, Perl, etc. I'm not sure how relevant it is to the eq server programming but it's a start.

As has been previously said, if you understand the concepts of programming such as what variables are, the difference between strings and integers, what a for loop and while loop are, what Boolean logic and if/case statements are and what arrays are you can, with a little practice, pick up any coding language. They all essentially do those same functions just with different syntax and either compiled or are script languages. Some languages are better for certain tasks

Don't be daunted it's not as hard as it seems to pick up, and if you use it a lot you will find yourself getting better quickly.

[Danyelle]

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

I work in IT but do not know how to program. I work with programmers, I often think about learning to program but feel I may be too old now to try!

It's not as hard as people may have you think. As said, there are many ways to learn the languages used in EQEmu source. There are also innumerable guides on the EQEmu wiki if your intent is to learn how to work with the EQEmu code/database/perl quests specifically.

You'll never learn it if you don't try. It's better to have tried and failed than think to yourself "it's have been cool to do that shit" the rest of your life and never know if you even could.

[pharmakos]

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

mysterious rocket surgery.

bahahahahaha

[porigromus]

Thanks to all for the inspiration. It makes me want to start learning.