PRC closing down

[Legacy_omen_shepperd]

               I noticed the following announcement
on the PRC’s news page.

 

http://www.nwnprc.com/news.php

 

“Player Resource Consortium closing
down

As of January 20, 2011, we are shutting
down the PRC's operations. All major development for the NWN PRC pack has
halted and while there may be a few contributions and releases yet from a couple
members, no more major releases are planned.



With this, we are also ending most of our support. This site's forums will
eventually be closed down, though we will archive information we consider
important. Our chat room and the social.bioware.com site will remain active for
now -- we recommend the latter for bug reports or further discussion -- and the
site will at least leave the manual available but at this point, "it is
what it is". Feel free to stop by our chat for advice/help, say hi,
reminisce, or just idle the time away, though! We still plan to hang around
there.



It's been a while coming but many of us have moved on in our lives, along with
the vast majority of the NWN community. Thanks to Stratovarius, the founder of
this group and many thanks to our supporters, contributors and the BioWare
staff for their time, tools and expertise in these past 7 years. “

I for one am saddened by the loss of the prc. For me it
brought new life to a game I loved but was getting bored with.

From dabbling with it to make my pw, to adding it in to mods
so I could playtest out different builds in different situations. It never
ceases to amaze me, thank you to the staff of the prc for keeping some of us
entertained .
               
               

               

                     Modifié par omen_shepperd, 22 janvier 2011 - 01:01 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               *scratches head*

So they are closing up shop and going home? With the code left in THAT condition? *shrugs*  

*turns off light and closes door*

GM_ODA

P.S. I had the dubious honor of debugging a server that uses this PRC, did it, but wow, coding nightmare. If at least it is a 'final' version, or whenever it is, someone ought to clean the code and optimize it some (kill the circular reference issues). 
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shadooow]

               

ehye_khandee wrote...

*scratches head*

So they are closing up shop and going home? With the code left in THAT condition? *shrugs*  

thats quite unpleasant, but unfortunately it is true...

But truth also is that with current number of classes, feats and spells, it can never be optimized/fully working. I would rather prefered PRC Lite.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par ShaDoOoW, 22 janvier 2011 - 04:26 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               I don't mean to be cruel, it is just fact. They poured a nuclear b*ttload of stuff in there - but did minimal code cleanup. It is full of circular references and more. IDK if it 'cannot be' optimized, but it certainly could be MORE optimized than it is - I call them like I see them.



Perhaps, with this being a final, or soon to be one, someone will move in that direction (it would be pointless while more stuff was being poured in).



Be well. Game on.

GM_ODA
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Bannor Bloodfist]

               

omen_shepperd wrote...

I noticed the following announcement
on the PRC’s news page.

http://www.nwnprc.com/news.php

“Player Resource Consortium closing
down

As of January 20, 2011, we are shutting
down the PRC's operations. All major development for the NWN PRC pack has
halted and while there may be a few contributions and releases yet from a couple
members, no more major releases are planned.

Thank you Stratovarius, and the various members/contributors over the years.  PRC added some really cool additions to the classes.  I know how much work went into it over the years, and while it may not be perfect, the PRC system definitely added to the enjoyability of NWN in general.

Fare Thee Well folks.  Perhaps, if we are lucky, some other game developer will recognize that having a community with available expansion tools around can greatly expand the userbase.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ShadowM]

               Ahh this is sad their system broke new ground in a lot of areas, I was going to start to beg them to do a light version that was generic with just the stuff from the core books (DMG, MM, PG) with just the basic engine code they made that was all cleaned up and simple and make a tutorial on adding races, classes, prestige classes etc.. but looks like I waited to long '> I now know how to do most of this stuff but just would of saved me time with a team on it. Just for there out of game character creator I bow to them, that thing is nice '>  I thought they were going to work with ElgarL on his changes to the game? damm was looking forward to that too.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ehye_khandee]

               There IS a lot of good stuff in there for sure, I just wish the code were more orderly, now that it is in a stable form, cleanup is more feasible. I _might_ even look at it myself as I get closer to completion of my current tasks.



Be well. Game on.

GM_ODA
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Alex Warren]

               

As of January 20, 2011, we are shutting
down the PRC's operations. All major development for the NWN PRC pack has
halted and while there may be a few contributions and releases yet from a couple
members, no more major releases are planned.

Not entirely true - we do plan to make one more major release, which will be the final version of PRC Pack.

I don't mean to be cruel, it is just fact. They poured a nuclear b*ttload of stuff in there - but did minimal code cleanup. It is full of circular references and more. IDK if it 'cannot be' optimized, but it certainly could be MORE optimized than it is - I call them like I see them.

AFAIK ElgarL has cleaned all circular dependencies in PRC scripts, and we are still optimizing them (currently I'm working on fixing ToB classes). We all are quite bussy recently so this will take some time.

There IS a lot of good stuff in there for sure, I just wish the code were more orderly, now that it is in a stable form, cleanup is more feasible. I _might_ even look at it myself as I get closer to completion of my current tasks.

Any help is welcome '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ShadowM]

               Well this is great, I classify myself as a medium level scripter so I prob. to low to help. I very happy to see there is still some life left and work no matter how slow. '> thank you guys for all the hard work you put into prc.