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Time to move from tfs 0.4 to 1.3

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I would love to change from tfs 0.4 to tfs 1.3 and my question is:
Is it hard to learn LUA? Why do I ask if its hard to learn?
I would like to edit my scripts by myself bcus it does not feel good to ask everytime on otland for a EDIT or a SCRIPT.
How long would it take to learn simple lua scripting?

+++ ( Everyone saying its better to move forward :D bye tfs 0.4 and hello tfs 1.3 ) +++
 
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Coming from a straight noob at scripting..
To learn lua basics only takes like.. 2 hours max.

tabbing, tables, loops, basic OT stuff, learning where to look for shit, 2 weeks.

Basically just comes down to taking the time to learn the basics, then continue trying to learn and adjust things.
You'll never really stop learning.
 
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Depending on amount of your your custom stuff.
We have migrated from 0.4 to 1.3.
I can surely say it was one of hardest things we have faced. For sure you can handle tons of stuff via compat, but still you are not able to catch out every single bug if you won't check quest by quest / npc by npc etc.
After transferring database to 1.3 ( keeping whole playerbase ) and most of scripts to run the server - during 2 months of tests players have reported over 380 issues (couple hundread of active players ). Testing it alone - a year?
 
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AngeLOT said:
I would like to edit my scripts by myself bcus it does not feel good to ask everytime on otland for a EDIT or a SCRIPT.
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Great initiative from someone going from asking support board to someone looking to do stuff themselves (this was exactly my mindset a few years ago, you can even read when I was a noob back in 2015 from my earliest posts)
Lua took me 2 months to become basically proficient in the language itself (not just TFS). It's really not hard to learn, you ask what the problem is, look up what you can use in the Lua manual, and try to figure out a solution. If you get stuck, ask for help and ask why what you tried didn't work so you can learn from your mistakes.
To actually answer your question, learning the simple shit will go by quicker than you think (I'd say like 1 month tops to be able to script most of what you want). Just start off by experimenting and learning how the new code style works in 1.3 and try to make creative scripts that would require you to learn rather than copy/pasting.
If you're in the OTLand discord, I can answer more questions and have a proper discussion if you ask there as well if you'd like.
 
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is just curious. How's it going? Have start teaching myself but take a little more time for me because of my English is not so good
 
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