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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonkeyBoy" data-source="post: 157819" data-attributes="member: 1229">...Lets be straight;PCGen is the best Character Generator out there, by an order of magnitude.On the other hand, it has some problems:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Its stupidly SLOW</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It has some fundamental bugs in</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">New revisions are released too fast</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There seems to be little cohesion of development effort</li> </ul>There are obvious reasons for most of these;Its slow because they use Java, but the developers have a "euphamism inserted" for Java, so won't admit that their program is slow due to it.It still has a lot of low-level bugs because A; fixing old bugs isn't "exciting" and B; there is minimal testing before release.New revisions; 1 a week is too frequent, it destroys your testing time (for instance that embarrassing release where someone removed the alignment setting section completely - proving that the release had never been tested at all)No cohesion; well thats a symptom of both "community programming" and open ended requirements. (there's no plan, no end-goal to measure against) This is also in part why bugs linger for a long time, and get re-inserted.In short; It wouldn't be hard to produce a priogram that did SOME of what PCGen does a lot better, It would be VERY HARD to produce a program that did ALL of what PCGen does a lot better. Or rather, it would be hard to do it this year <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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