[crossfire] Telnet support

[Mitch Obrian]

I inquired because MUDers I've talked to don't like to
play crossfire because there is no text mudlike
iface... then I started talking about a nethack like
interface because ... well that's the text type thing
I'd like :) (MUD is not graphical enough for me). I
was thinking that since crossfire allready spits out
mud like things (you killed the knight) perhapse a mud
telnet iface could be coded in so CFservers could pick
up Text MUD players (this type of Iface wouldn't need
the tiles).

--- Mark Wedel <
     
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      Mitch Obrian wrote:
     
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      > Why always the "go and do it yourself" answer?
     
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        If you want something done, do it yourself? :)
     
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        But the issue, which has been discussed, is that
     
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      crossfire is a volunteer project.
     
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        As such, most people that are going to work on it
     
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      are going to do things they 
     
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      find interesting.  Perhaps you can find a developer
     
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      that will find writing an 
     
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      ASCII client interesting.  I, however, am not that
     
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      developer, so I won't be 
     
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      writing one.
     
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        In fact, even fixing bugs is something that I
     
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      don't find interesting to do - 
     
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      I'd much rather spend my time working on 'grander'
     
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      aspects of programming for 
     
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      the game.  But at some level, one has to do some of
     
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      the more mundane work - 
     
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      doing only cool stuff but never fixing bugs would
     
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      probably result in a program 
     
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      that has tons of bells and whistles but crashes
     
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      every 5 minutes.
     
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        Also, there has never been a pure only text client
     
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      that I am aware of in the 
     
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      entire history of crossfire.  So it is not like this
     
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      is functionality that 
     
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      disappeared - this is new functionality that needed
     
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      (the telnet interface that 
     
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      used to exist basically still exists - it never
     
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      allowed one to play the game, it 
     
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      is just back in way back times, you needed to
     
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      connect via telnet to tell the 
     
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      server to display the X11 client back to your
     
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      display.  But once you did that, 
     
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      it was still graphical.
     
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        So writing a ASCII client/interface is not just a
     
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      trivial amount of work - I'd 
     
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      say it would actually take quite a bit of work.
     
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        The other issue is the related demand/usefulness. 
     
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      Most developers, myself 
     
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      included, are more willing to write code that will
     
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      be used by a bunch of people 
     
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      and not a few.  I just have a hard time believing
     
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      that lots of people are 
     
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      clamoring for a ASCII client.  It's not like there
     
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      are likely many systems that 
     
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      don't have sufficient graphics to play the game.
     
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