>My understanding is there is the base engine... Then there is a scripting language...
This is basically correct. The scripting langauge is, I believe, called GSL (after gemstone)? The following is probably too long winded to be true:
Simutronics games are more like MUSHes than MUDs in the sense that development almost never touches the system that runs the game, only the game itself. Only some aspects of the game are part of the system itself, like inventory, equipment slots (feature-altering stuff are probably a hack), what is a player and what is an object, ect. Kind of like the hardcode is an OS and the softcode is an executable or ... some better analogy. Softcoded is generally more stable.
When you start working in the hardcode, you're talking a different level of programming and legal access.
"...I am inclined to think the focus of the [Warmage's] spellbook should be ways to make things explode, to help you make things explode, or to assist your victim in exploding." -Armifer
