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<blockquote data-quote="mattcolville" data-source="post: 3199069" data-attributes="member: 1300">The average player does not, for instance, participate in internet fora. They don't know anything about Java, don't want to or know how to install any &quot;environments.&quot; They just want the damn thing to work, and work intuitively. The people who praise the CMP stuff all have something in common; they're all highly educated on how the stuff works. They learned about the data sets and how to get them and how to make them work, how to buy them and install them, they learned about the nearly-invisible software in the first place.Each generator has its own tiny band of followers because each is designed by a dude or a bazzar-like group of dudes who code and enter data. They produce results optimized for...themselves. So they attract end-users who are...like them. And if you're not like them, maybe you'll put up with it's idiosyncracies, but probably you will not.It's not easy designing and implementing robust and intuitive software, I know, I deal with it on a daily basis. But I'm not super concerned with how hard it is. My hats off to everyone involved for all their hard work. But really I just want something that's easy and powerful and everyone in all my gaming groups can grok.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mattcolville, post: 3199069, member: 1300"] The average player does not, for instance, participate in internet fora. They don't know anything about Java, don't want to or know how to install any "environments." They just want the damn thing to work, and work intuitively. The people who praise the CMP stuff all have something in common; they're all highly educated on how the stuff works. They learned about the data sets and how to get them and how to make them work, how to buy them and install them, they learned about the nearly-invisible software in the first place. Each generator has its own tiny band of followers because each is designed by a dude or a bazzar-like group of dudes who code and enter data. They produce results optimized for...themselves. So they attract end-users who are...like them. And if you're not like them, maybe you'll put up with it's idiosyncracies, but probably you will not. It's not easy designing and implementing robust and intuitive software, I know, I deal with it on a daily basis. But I'm not super concerned with how hard it is. My hats off to everyone involved for all their hard work. But really I just want something that's easy and powerful and everyone in all my gaming groups can grok. [/QUOTE]

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