I learned from Ibans CityRPG. Worst mistake ever. Learn by looking at other peoples scripts. However don't I repeat DON'T try and learn from ANY cityRPG. They are coded so hideously. Zebo knows the extent of the handicapation this has caused me.
I would strongly disagree, Iban's CityRPG is the best annotated and most modular code available for blockland, and at least when I was learning, everyone had experience with playing in a CityRPG. I particularly like it because you can start off simple, simply modifying variables and learning to add new jobs and holidays like the mod is designed to let you do, and then get into more advanced stuff that involves editing functions, or even adding your own. If you come across code you can't understand, even from reading the comments and descriptions, then maybe you are jumping in too deep too fast.
Start small. Look at basic scripts before you go into the AAA mods. Ill give you a hint. Adding on to other peoples code is more difficult than coding yourself. When you add on to other peoples code you don't know what their functions do, how they do it, when they do it, etc.
This I also disagree with in its entirety. If you have a foundation for a mod you want to make in the form of an existing mod, then it is much simpler and usually a better learning experience to add on to it. One of my first mods was a server chat mod that gave people titles and changed name colors and such, and there is probably no way I would have figured out how to do something like that if I didn't work off an existing chat mod first.
