I'd love to join. I really would. But my experience doesn't amount to a hill of beans, and until I have some idea what I'm doing I'd only get in your way. Just like I'm doing now... It strikes me how silly it must look, a noob like me trying to tell all you people what to do.    Okay, enough with the self-denigration. If any of you could point me in the direction of a good programming primer or some such, it'd be much appreciated and you might even see me back here in a few years. Otherwise I'll just get out from under your feet and stop hijacking this thread.

Hey, all. I think this is my first trip outside the whining- sorry, tech support forums. (For the record, I solved my last problem completely on my own, thank you very much. ) I hesitate to offer my two cents on this issue, especially seeing how the last suggestion was taken ( ). But anyway, here goes...

Planeshift is an open source game, no? Therefore, anyone can delve into the murky depths of the code and tinker around to their heart's content, right? Could we, the great unwashed programming-illiterate masses, submit directly the code necessary to make our favorite NPC as verbose as anyone might wish? What language is it in (French? German?  ...) and how much effort would it take to learn just the bits to write NPC responses? Obviously, the devs would have to give a submitter the green light both before and after submission, and the actual insertion and editing would be done by them. But I think this is an annoying enough issue that we the players want it resolved as quickly as possible, and lots of us, I think, would be more than willing to lend a hand to make this game more fun.

Don't get me wrong here. I'm not actually volunteering or anything ... yet. But, given the vast number of idle players and contributors lurking this forum, I'm sure we could get together enough enough material to crush a Kran. So, rather than post lists, we could post code ... Anyway, that's my idea.

I had to go OOC to ask the question, and I didn't want to risk putting this in the General Discussion forum. How wrong I was... 

Anyway, thanks for the quick reply everyone.

Thanks, Neko Kyouran. I appreciate the quick response.

I've always considered myself "tech-savvy". This is certainly a sharp blow to the ego.