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Originally Posted by Mblake81
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Which server did you play on and what kind of computer was the second one that you used to display the information?
How did you use this and how did it help you to manage your mezzes? I ask because playing the game was keeping a mental track of them. The game itself didn't provide the information for the player, if that was the intention then it would have been displayed by the developers. The game didn't have this information displayed so it was up to the player to remember.
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The type of computer he used is hardly relevant, anything running windows would do. Logically, if you were a clever person with resources back in 1999 sharing the directory over a windows network would be the easiest thing to do... it was the first thing that came to my mind when I thought about how this could be done.
You're making a pretty hefty assumption about the intention of the developers. Have you considered that they may have wanted to include this information in the UI but chose not to due to technological limitations such as too much stress on the the players hardware? Maybe this was a design goal that took a while to get around to. Perhaps it was introduced from player feedback - perhaps even players using programs they wrote themselves to display this information on a networked computer.
We will likely never know, but there are a lot of possibilities.