[xraymypanda]

WizenedEE, most of what I have learned about coding has come from mentors, so correct me if I'm wrong. We used pointers and new to avoid virtual errors and rewrites and because of different inheritances in the library provided to us. In most cases, it was simply easier to create new, temporary copies of variables than to work around the code that we didn't write and didn't want to rewrite. I hope that answers your question.