P99 Database Query

[loramin]

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

bullshit, every open source project takes a lot of people lots of time, and they share it anyway.

This is 100% correct, and I think Sirken kind of gave the wrong answer, or at least only part of the right one.

There's zero reason, if this was a normal OSS project, for them to share the database ... but it isn't a normal project. It's a game, and all the "secrets" of the game are in that database.

Take ZEMs for instance: if the public got access to the official database, everyone would know exactly, mathematically, where the best XP in the game was for every level. It would absolutely destroy the population in every other zone.

I'm huge on OSS, and I do feel that someday, when R&N and are ready to throw in the towel on running this place, they absolutely should share that database with someone (maybe not the public, but at least a few other devs who show serious interest in starting classic servers).

But until then, it would clearly hurt the P99 community for them to do so (and I say this as someone who once spent like 20 pages arguing they were legally required to share the source code, based on a misunderstanding of the CC license they chose) .