MRO wrote to Esc on 11/08/2026 05:10 <=-

I followed his link and i clicked latest release or whatever on the
right. sounds retarded to me. why would there be one program calling another?

I'm not interested in it.
Looks like a convoluted and a ridiculous setup.

This is made in ai and STILL there's this crazy stuff

I'm the only one who has push access to the main branch and approves commits, so you'd have to blame me instead of AI for any design problems. ;)

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MRO wrote to Andy Alt on 11/08/2026 01:27 <=-

dude why do i have to jump through these hoops for a doorgame.
i download the release archive off github and i have one executable ib-sysop.exe.

why arent your docs in the release archive.

They're in the main package archive, where the door game binary is. Part of the docs change I made after your previous email is that I added an ib-sysop doc to the ib-sysop archive. Though that still wouldn't help much with out the docs from the main door game archive.

why don't you have an install program?

If you mean more similar to how BRE installs it... BRE can install and create configuration files, game data for a local or league game. If you want to setup more games, you have to extract the BRE archive and do the installation for each game (local, separate league games). With immortal barons, the path to the game data is specified from the command line with -data.

why is there a front end for another binary?

Good question, I forgot to point out that the sysop panel is intended mainly for league coordinators to troubleshoot or view info about league games, and some other LC admin tasks. I'm not sure yet how useful it would to other league member boards or sysops running local games. That's one reason the sysop panel binary is separate from the main door game archive.

seems convoluted.

I'll keep an eye out for more feedback like this and if I think of ways to improve, I'd definitely consider them.

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MRO wrote to Esc on 11/08/2026 05:10 <=-

Re: Re: Immortal Barons can now read DOORDROP.INI
By: Esc to MRO on Sun Nov 08 2026 01:10 am

MRO wrote:

dude why do i have to jump through these hoops for a doorgame. i download the release archive off github and i have one executable ib-sysop.exe.

Did you read the name of the package you were downloading? There are
two packages. ib-sysop isn't the game, immortal barons is the game
and the archive calls it that.

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I followed his link and i clicked latest release or whatever on the
right.

Typically I assume that someone new to a program will check the docs when they see two different archives on a downloads page and aren't sure which to get. But again, I can make that clearer. I've added more info to the release page itself, and I'll add it to future releases as well. Thanks again for the feedback, MRO.

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Re: Re: Immortal Barons can now read DOORDROP.INI
By: Andy Alt to MRO on Sun Nov 08 2026 04:00 pm

Typically I assume that someone new to a program will check the docs
when they see two different archives on a downloads page and aren't
sure which to get. But again, I can make that clearer. I've added
more info to the release page itself, and I'll add it to future
releases as well. Thanks again for the feedback, MRO.

you dont even have documentation included with the file i downloaded.
i went to the releases and chose the one at the top for my build.

yes i could have investigated for a while but it didn't look like it was
worth my time.


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