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Originally Posted by I don't have a username
The reason that it's kept secret, it's because of the effort put into getting it.
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And that is why you have so much hostility in this community. There is no sense of sharing. Because it was hard to get? The effort? Glad you guys like working by yourselves. How many people come through this community who have a vast amount of knowledge but no way to obtain such small things (in the grand scale) such as the encryption info who just walk back out because they can't continue?
You know, I started a dev team many years ago (10+) for some dying game called Helbreath. We started it as open source and it was great. We made the version everyone used (even to this day, every source is derived from it). We did go closed eventually, but only because someone was trying to steal it and claim they wrote it and at the time there wasn't really anyone capable of coding so having it open source really didn't benefit the community. (was a fairly small community)
All in all though, if anyone had questions, wanted to know things, wanted to learn, anything was done because the community only lasted while people wanted to further development. To this day, I still answer questions and coding issues regarding a game developed in the 90s.
It was a tough call overall though. The community was saturated with servers because everyone wanted to host their own server (since it worked 99.99% in line with official) and having sources available meant they could do anything they wanted to (even if they didn't know how, the option was there) and that in turn somewhat hurt the community having many servers, but few players each. BUT, at the same time, there were plenty who came together to further everything which was only possible because everything was open.
If you want to talk about effort, we did it and had it open source for the longest. I actually came into CO right after I stopped work on HB. Played for a year or so then started development projects. Still surprised to this day how closed this community has ALWAYS been. Yea, there are a few releases every so often, but only because people rewrite code and such. Not many current projects being shared in full, if any. I had always intended to make my CO server project (
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ) fully open source, but as I kept going, no one really expressed any interest in using C++ and CO had gotten really boring and monotonous so I moved on. Gave UG access first because (at the time at least) most of the people who contributed a lot were in there so if it had a chance to take off while still incomplete, that'd be the place. Since nothing happened, it went to public. Shame too. Shame no one likes sharing here either.
It's ok it was hard to get those encryption methods and such. So is developing that Linux kernel year after year yet each release continues to be free of charge.