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I'm suprised they haven't created an option that purges all discussions of open/closed source philosophy. I giggle every time there's a new one.

I dunno.. the topic is, "Why Use POL?" All seems pretty much on-topic to me... though your post isn't.

I work for a company that builds black-box controllers for the metal forming industry. We've been around 28 years and we dominate the market, thus our equipment is very prolific. Recently, we rolled out a new product that really obsoletes at least one of our major lines.

During the initial development, and even now, we struggle with the fact that we made the decision to be as backwards compatible with our old equipment as we possibly could. It has created a myriad of support nightmares for us, and continues to COST US MONEY to this day.

My experience is that users WILL learn the new way. They'll complain, because no one likes change, but after they achieve a comfort level with the "new system", they become cheerleaders for it.

It was frustrating to get used to 092, then get hit in the head with 095, but I'm VERY pleased with the change now.



Me too. I'll stick with POL forever. I might freeze my server at 095, but I won't go to a new system. As a "hobby" programmer, I don't have the time or money to go and learn enough programming to dive into RunUO or something else that requires a larger understanding of <insert programming language here>.

POL is great because eScript is easy to learn and use. It's forgiving, too. Once a scripter has any real experience using it, eScript is actually "fun".

Hey guys,

Those of you that remember me - long time since I was here, been quiet for quite awhile Although in all that time, I've still been running our shard, together with my fellow admins.

I started using POL95 in 2003. Back then, we used the POL95 core + distro, and started customizing everything, rewriting most of the systems. I loved the way everything was so customizable - for me, that was one of the major plusses. Another was the very handy escript guide from Racalac - quick and simple to learn, simple to use.

We switched over to POL96 in 2004, I think. Was naturally followed by some major modifications in the codeset, but with POL96 came even more customizable features. Ever since then, we've been moving/upgrading at the same pace as the POL devs, upgrading our core whenever a new one came out. And still, with each new release, comes new customizable features (am I sounding like a stuck record yet? )

So, whats the point of this post? The fact that I will never use any other emulator for a UO shard. We briefly tried to switch over to RunUO in 2004 for experiment's sake, and it was horrible. So, kudos to the POL96 developers, keep up the good work I, for one, will definitely always be a POL-supporter.