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    Melichoir's Avatar
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    Desia Demarseille
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    Sargatanas
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    Dark Knight Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Noitems View Post
    Really all they need to do is just rewrite the script for putting you into each chapter and just plop you in like that.
    I want to suggest that this might not be a simple "Let me throw in a few lines of code and everything will be cool" solution.

    From what is generally said about coding, if its older, coding changing parts of it becomes extremely difficult because of the things connected to it. So they build code on top of the old code rather than modifying it, overtime just creating a mountain of code on code on code. If this is the case (which it might very well be), they probably have to not only write code for the interface, but also create new code that overrides the old code without breaking the MSQ as it currently is, and then testing against this. From my PoV, this isnt a one day thing. Its probably been something theyve been investing into doing for a while.

    To me, I dont think that this was a low effort ordeal, but something that consumed a bit of time and effort to implement. It just seems low effort because of how conceptually straight forward it is.

    Edit: To clarify my point - MSQ is a linear set of quests that affect places you can go, NPC locations, what you can interact with, so on so forth. Much of the general game is built on a basic concept of "X has be done before Y, and Y before Z." Allowing you to go back to X would have the game start saying "Well if youre doing X, Y and Z cant be done yet." Make that more complicated with the fact you have to allow it to run in tandem with where your current MSQ progress is. Point is I feel like its not a simple "Unflag quest and let me repeat it". It has to be done without breaking the game as is. And that is the crux of the issue, particularly if you have to make sure it doenst mess up the mountain of code that exists between this and the original code.
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    Last edited by Melichoir; 09-20-2019 at 03:05 AM.