[Trumpcard]

You know, this is getting insane...

We dont even try to help people anymore, we take the time to insult, ban, tell them NOT to, but dont take the time anymore to actually try to be helpful...
Everything seems to be a bannable offense now... I'm really getting tired of this 'aura of fear and belittlement' that haunts these forums...


I have to throw my 2 cents in and say this is starting to get out of hand from my perspective....

IceMan, developer code is available via the CVS system on sourceforge, you can obtain it there.

Im confused ,when has it became bannable to ask how to obtain DR code, we've always encourged people to download CVS code as it puts the DR code in the hands of people who can potentially report bugs and/or make code fixes/improvements. That was the whole point in me setting up the CVS update process to make new code available....

Before we bitch about ANYONE else, we need to FIX the portal page to include a total and complete FAQ , good ,thorough and UP2DATE documentation, and enough information that we don't expect someone completely new to EQEMU to have to read for 6 hours to get a general state of the union.... Im looking through the FAQ section, and I'm not seeing a 'HOW TO' on getting development code via CVS.. And even if there was one, the format is so confusing off that page that I doubt many people would find it..

Frankly, the layout of the main page sucks, theres not enough consolidated information , (a what is EQEMU page) , and its all haphazard, I dont blame someone coming in for the 1st time to ask some questions..

As far as Wiz's comment goes regarding asking questions about CVS, he like all of us has the option of not replaying to a post. I don't recall him being elected to set the banning policies at random, especially since a master RULES OF THE ROAD list is not jumping out at me anywhere... If it requires 10 hours of digging to find some obscure rule that a DEV came up with because he got annoyed, its really pointless to punish someone for not seeing it...

Let me make a command level decision and OVERULE asking questions regarding Developer code.. It is not bannable, nor should it ever have been. That does not mean PM the developers , harass them in IRC, etc, but someone should at least be free to ask for the process, as opposed to hoping to god they'll get a search response and then fearing to ask a question because of this oppressive atmosphere.....

OMG I HOPE HAVING AN OPINION ISNT A BANNABLE OFFENSE!