Posted by Umguy on June 7, 2000 at 12:23:31:
In Reply to: Re: Purge! posted by Watcher on June 7, 2000 at 12:11:21:
> not to burst your bubble but it has happened acouple times and will most likely happen again in the future.
Once. There was a pfile purge once. Not "acouple times". Also, the pfile purge was ALL pfiles, not "all pfiles except heroes." Furthermore, the reason the pfiles were purged were as follows:
Giants were split into 3 races.
Mages were split into 3 classes (transmuter, invoker, necro).
Possible other changes, but those are the major two IIRC.
Nowadays, the Imms seem to have figured out (thankfully) better methods for adding new classes, splitting old classes, adding new races, etc. I refer you to Conjurers for the first, and to the Invoker/Paladin/Assassin redeux for the second.
> So don't blow your top when it does.. i'm not saying it is or will happen soon.. But it needs to.
It may need to in the future, but we're talking a huge overhaul here. Even changing to a different OS would likely not cause a need for a pfile purge, as the Imms seem to be able to write scripts to change pfiles however they see fit (or do you think they manually changed all the pre-existing paladins to lose dual wield and such?).