This really is a little bit frustrating. I used to play VG back when it first came out and I subscribed to ISXVG and actually got a few of my friends to subscribe as well. We are all working professionals and found the added functionality really worth the minimal investment.
When I found out VG is going free to play, I decided to try it again and also resubbed to ISXVG. Sadly, a lot of things no longer seem to work. The forums are deserted and I've tried on multiple occasions to find help on IRC, which, as far as I can tell, is populated by idle bots.
Then, when people do try to find solutions, we get replies that say we should learn to code.
I realize this is probably a dead project to the main dev and he's just enjoying whatever residual income comes his way. That's fine, good for him. I just think it's a little bit silly though, to ask customers to learn to code. Most people who are using ISXVG are implicitly saying that they value their time more than the money required to subscribe to someone else's code. All of that being said, I decided to attempt to learn, so I could get this bot to actually work again.
It has been an exercise in frustration. The documentation is sparse, scattered and sometimes nonexistent. The wikis are not well maintained and there really aren't very many resources to help guide a novice and explain the different layers and interplay between ISXVG as an extension, Inner Space as a platform, and LavishScript as a language.
I guess what I'm saying, respectfully, is that we're not here to learn to code. If you're done with this project, fine, just don't respond. If you're not done with this project, throw up some premium scripts, I'll happily be your first customer. And finally, if you're going to ask us to join the community and learn to code, at least have some sort of basic primer helping us to navigate through the different aspects of getting an isxvg script and ui up and running.
If you're still maintaining these forums, I'm going to assume that there are at least still a few VG clients. Now that the game has gone free to play, isn't it a good time to invest some resources into fixing up these broken scripts? Seems to me to be an emerging market.
I can help with any crafting logic, or with UI elements (my background is in graphic design). I can also learn quickly if you actually have anything resembling a manual for isxvg specific scripting.
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