Re: [xsrcg-devel] Been working away at some stuff here and there...

[Max N. <max...@ya...>]

On May 8, 2005, at 23:50, Jesse Wattenbarger wrote:

> I was looking at some of my xsrcg code and notes the other day.   
> I'm still
> really interested in doing this.  Especially now that SR4 is coming  
> out
> =).
>
> We should try to meet up on IRC sometime soon and discuss some  
> plans and
> the direction of the project.
>
> -- omie
>

     Still interested as well. I'm currently playtesting SR4, and  
I... Well, I'm not allowed to tell you much about it, actually. However:
- The new system has a sane, if WoD-ish, base. It's got bugs and  
imbalances, though, but that's what we playtesters are for.
- The new character generation system looks good so far.
- It should be relatively easy to implement (well, much easier than  
SR3 anyway).
- It is, however, very different from SR3. Upgrading a SR3 program to  
SR4 will probably be as difficult as starting from scratch.
- Therefore, if we are to implement a SR4 character generator, we  
shouldn't bother with creating a SR3 one beforehand.

     I, for one, still am interested in creating a Shadowrun  
character generator. But I must admit that while the new rules system  
doesn't look bad, the one reason why I've been playing Shadowrun all  
this time is the setting. I don't care about the rules as long as the  
setting is good.

     Therefore, whether or not I keep playing SR will be determined  
by the modifications they to the Shadowrun setting in the 2065-2070  
gap. Which I currently don't know a single thing about, other than  
the publicly available info (FAQs and stuff).
     I'm a little bit afraid about that (especially since I didn't  
really like the direction SR3 had been going in lately). On the other  
hand, I'm always interesting in coding some fun stuff, so at least  
until SR4 is released and turns out to be shit, you can count me in. ^^

     Where, and at what times do you guys usually hang around on IRC  
nowadays?

-- Max
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"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting  
and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge  
a perfect, immortal machine?"