Quote Originally Posted by Selzak View Post
I know where you're coming from, and I could care less about whether or not RDMs are meleeing, I just think you're assuming way too much about how the engine is built and what kind of trickery may or may not be possible to get around its supposed limitations.

You made a very valid point when you brought up the fact that this game mechanic is probably not as easy to change as people were assuming. (like flipping a switch or changing a 1 to a 2)

...Then you just kind of went overboard with it (at least, from my perspective) by acting as if it would be impossible to make it work.
Fair enough. Like I said, I don't think that this sort of thing would be impossible for any computer anywhere. I just think that it's highly unlikely that this could be done without a massive overhaul of the game's server client, and an extremely large rewrite of existing combat mechanics. For all intents and purposes, this is outside the realm of possibility.

If people were to offer more educated insight into how this might actually work aside from "I want it, do it now, this is my opinion and that's your opinion and zomg you don't work at SE so shut up" and "well I can write a 1000 line python program that can do this, so SE's server code should too", we might actually be able to move this discussion forward. I find it extremely unlikely that that would happen, though.

I lose motivation to put in disclaimers for these kinds of people very quickly, as they're often completely misinterpreted or misrepresented in order to serve their agenda. Imagine walking into a room where people vehemently believe that the sun is made of cheese, and trying to say "Well no, we're pretty sure it's not made of cheese, as that makes no sense, and we're 99.9% sure that it's really primarily composed of Hydrogen and Helium". People are going to latch onto that 0.1% chance and say "AHA, SO IT COULD BE MADE OF CHEESE, NA NA CAN'T PROVE ME WRONG UNTIL YOU FLY TO THE SUN".

It's much easier to just turn and say "The sun is not bloody made of cheese, at all, shut the bloody hell up."