Character Simulator App

[shavenlunatic]

Oh man,

This part of the thread is hilarious! It reminds me of a Mr. Show sketch where a former member of a band accuses his old band mates of kicking him out for only having one arm. The abbot and costello-ish routine goes something like this:

"You kicked me out of the band because I lost my arm!"
"Well, yes and no. You're out of the band because you're a bad drummer. Having one arm doesn't help. We were about to kick you out before your accident."
"So, you're saying, you kicked me out because I only have one arm?"
"No. You were kicked out because you're a bad drummer!"
"On account of my one arm!"
"No!! Listen: You have one arm. BUT, IN ADDITION TO, ALSO, you're a sh***y drummer!"
"Because I of my handicap."
"NOOO!!!!!"
and it continues...

It was quite the funny sketch, from season 3. As always with their stuff, it's all about delivery. Anyway, that's just something I remembered, paraphrased and probably badly thrashed beyond recognition, impossible to compare to the original.

And to get myself on-topic: I do see what it is that you want. I too entertained thoughts of writing such an application. But, the scope of it is far too large; the application that I would have written would have been the core of Diablo 2's skill and item systems themselves. I'm sure as hell not re-writing Diablo, since that's what they did with version 1.10, and it took about 2 years to finish. I've already got two jobs, what do I need a third (unpaid!) one for?!

:P LOL, i was kinda feeling like that... well observed :D

As for the application, the more and more I think about it, the more and more I realise it is going to be a nightmare. You're right, it would be like re-writing Diablo2 from scratch minus the graphics and gameplay, but all stats and damage calculations would probably end up being about 60-70% of the game (in a programming sense).

Gawd, i think i may slowly develop something over time, but I doubt I could get through it all on my own, i'll enlish some Diablo 2 statistic monkey before i start who have a programming background and just get em to shove a bunch of stuff in.. hmmmm