Hello all, love the way your forum looks!
Something that we have been discussing over at the Pre-GoMa is things that we can do or try to do right now. The Maintainers Guild has a unique problem, in that is can be quite hard to practice our main trade: Inspecting Ages.
All the other guilds seem to have things that they can go ahead and work with or practice with. Here, all of you can work on your writing and storytelling skills, 3D modeling skills, coding, etc.
The GoC can continue to make maps.
The GoG can continue to help new explorers.
And the GoMe can work with and practice on reporting news, relaying, messaging.
As you can see, these are very viable things that these guilds can do and work with. The Maintainers have a unique problem, in that their main trade is not something that can be easily done.
New explorers that have not completed all the Ages that are currently in MOUL have the advantage of "practicing" being a Age Inspector for the Maintainers quite easily, but for many of us, we have to wait until something new is issued by Cyan.
Luckly, this next up coming episode, we are getting 3 new areas to explore and practice our trade.
The question that some of us have is:
Is it possible for the GoMa to use fan created ages that can be loaded up on our computers at home using the offline version of Uru (CC) to practice exploring new and different areas?
This would be a incredibly useful tool for the GoMa.
We also thought it would give us a chance to work with the GoW in learning how to communicate with your guild things that we've found in the Age given to us to explore and inspect, both IC and OOC things.
As we progress forward with trying to build these guilds, we felt that it is important to work with each and every guild. If you look at the Myst Books, you'll find that the Maintainers seem to work with the many guilds. It would also seem that the Maintainers worked very closely with the GoW, direct proof of this can be found in Gahreesen. Look everywhere and you'll think of how it was an Age dedicated for the Maintainers. However, step into either of the "Conference" rooms located in the second building, and you will find the rooms COVERED in the Writers Guild Symbol!
We'd like to get all of your thoughts, ideas, and opinions on this.
Thanks!
Andy Legate
Pre-GoMa supporter.