Dalius said:
Sphere's scripting engine is WAY less powerful than RunUO's.
Sphere has a gibberish language to script with.
RunUO's has an international language, C#
Sphere is a bitch to script for.
RunUO, if you know C# well enough, you can basically do anything
Man, is that -ever- the truth. Don't get me wrong, having used Sphere for a long time, as an emulator they did a decent job. Unfortunately, it's so damn hardcoded and buggy that you spent double the time -fixing- crap just to be able to actually script and accomplish anything. Compared to RunUO, it's like skating uphill =/
Unfortunately, (and this -can- be fixed by people) C# does require a basis of beginning knowledge in programming structure and flowcharting. It's occasionally -too- powerful, I've noticed, since if you don't know what you're doing, you can cause yourself some problems. But that's simply a matter of educating and practicing with the language in order to master it, and personally, if you intend to make a successful server, you need to be educating yourself daily -anyway-. There's always something extra to be learned.
Good job to the RunUO team. Now, if we could just figure out a good way to recompile and not disconnect everyone, I'd be estastic =)