Lontahv wrote:I think that if you don't want to have your idea looked at and decided by a higher up
Looked at, of course. Judged by them as either worthy or unworthy? No.
Lontahv wrote:you don't have to use the power and time that the guild members would put in, ie. if you want to go it alone, go it alone don't make the writers spend time on a project that is maybe flawed and not thought out.
No one is "making" the writers do anything. No one can. This is a forum with people doing work on ages in their free time. The most of anyone's time you can possibly waste on a forum is the time spent reading the threads you post.
Lontahv wrote:The guild of writers should not have to model and script for ages that will not come to anything.
No one knows if any of this entire venture is going to come to anything. We're all working under the vague assumption that our work will be recognized by Cyan and, at some point, integrated into their game. They are under no obligation to do so, and none of us are under any obligation to model or script for any idea posted here.
Lontahv wrote:And if a writer say has a friend that wants to make an age that did not pass the grand master then that writer can help the friend and this can be a non writers age. As I see it, you have guild ages(worked on by all of the guild) and personal ages worked on by small groups of writers. This is why I voted for the Extreme option in the poll.
The whole guild? Who is going to be responsible for getting everyone registered here to work on an age, because they say so? Not going to fly. Not everyone with the skills may be interested in working on whatever the arbitrary priority is.
Lontahv wrote:Person has an age idea---->---person submits idea to Grand Master------->----->----Grand Master agrees to letting age through---->---->---Council decides if age should get work started on it right away or if the writers are to swamped with other ages to handle it(age is then put on hold if writers are too busy)--->----Age builders--->---Public)
So, you're going to let one person somehow pass final judgment over the worthiness of any given age to be worked on by the writers? A very conducive environment for concept work. Then, you're going to have the Grand Master start assigning people age building homework? So fun.
When people are working on age concepts that they find interesting, they are showing that they find the concept worthy of their effort. Every member's opinion on a concept will differ. The single opinion of a grand master is not necessary. Also, Pryftan, what would the difference between a representative and a leader be, to Cyan? They could present themselves as a leader to Cyan, and relay whatever is necessary.
(anyway, because I recognize the need for a proper contact with Cyan, if this is going to go anywhere, I'm currently in favor of the "Little" option)