UO Dancing: Revisited

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[TheGrimmOmen]

Just needed to ask the questions, though if it's not appropriate to answer I understand, but...

...has there been any point at which current or previous development teams have been in favour of providing just the one client, thus removing on one swoop, much of the understandable difficulties of supporting more than one?

Given supporting two clients poses it's own difficulty for the game as a whole, is there a particular reason why a solid decision had yet to be made over choosing the one client, then sticking with it and perfecting it?

I know people have always felt strongly in favour of their preferred client, but so long as the heart of what the game is about remains intact, then personally, I would always have favoured a single client in whichever form. The client to me, is the means by which to play the game, the game itself is what it is.

This is a great question, but the answer(s) is(are) a bit complicated. Yes they have. Let me think on how to answer this and I'll get back to you.

 

[TheGrimmOmen]

Which, of course, is a step backward from the technology of the 3D client... but then, since the EC is a step back from KR... I suppose it's to be expected.

actually, technologically speaking, the EC client is a vast step forwrd from the Third Dawn client... vast.

I'm not quite sure what the problem is with cordoning off a 3D environment to map onto a tile-based system, and implementing a client that understands the information coming from the server, displaying it properly.

Given that the 2D and 3D client were at least styled after each other, I would have thought supporting those two clients to be easier than the mishmosh of support currently going on between 2D and the EC.

But then, I don't understand a lot of the decisions being made client-wise these days.

I'm guessing that you are referring artistically to the two clients being alike. Whatever aesthetic similarities they might have had, under the hood, they were completely different critters. Macs and PCs can both read web pages, but are completely different ball games.

-Grimm