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Originally posted by DodgerBaseball
you know Mrskippy I have a friend thats a programmer and he's seen me playing OOTP and he claims that its easy and that he can create something like this in his sleep... but of course everytime i call him on it..he's coincidentally too busy.
DB
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Yes, I've known those types too
Having been a programmer in the past, I would say it's a matter of what you define as "easy". The coding itself is not at all difficult once you learn a language - and thus adding up stats is "easy".
The hard part comes in two forms... the first is attempting to put in "logic" or what we commonly refer to as the "AI" and there's dozens (no hundreds) of examples here that prove that point, and the sheer volume of the code. Any 12 lines to calculate "this and put it here" is "easy" but finding time to write tens of thousands, or ten of hundred of thousands lines of code becomes a real task.
Then there's the issue of trying to get the same program to work on tens of hundreds of machine configurations, display cards, etc.
Yeah... it's "easy"... in a weird twisted sort of way
