Afalstein wrote:Related-but-not-really-on-topic update. I've been in contact with Cyan recently about possible modifications to the Writer's Guild Hood, requesting a table of Writer's Guild shirts and perhaps a view extra television screens to display our in progress fan Ages. She said that other guilds have also requested tables with shirts for their "hoods" and suggested we get together with them. Here's the exact text.
We recently had a similar request from another guild and what you have proposed makes sense. I would recommend that you meet with the other sanctioned guilds (Guild of Greeters, Guild of Messengers, Guild of Maintainers, and Guild of Cartographers) and see if they are all on board for this same concept. Then, once you have all your thoughts together, put together a proposal and submit it for consideration.
In the meantime, I will check to see where you should submit your proposal… This is something that will be exclusive to the guild hoods, so there will be some coding that needs to be done. Since Cyan is no longer developing the game, I am not sure where to direct you just yet.
Vicki
Anyway. This is more of a heads-up more than anything else. I guess it would be cool if whoever is presenting for the Writer's Guild (Hoikas?) could bring this up, but otherwise I will probably also be there and could PM Doobes about it or something.
The best way to get Cyan's attention on something like this, and make it easier for them to implement and thus worth implementing, would be to create a max file with all the wiring and everything done, then Cyan would simply need to merge this max file with their own for the neighborhood and reexport the hoods. The addition should be on it's own seperate PRP, so as not to conflict with the existing settings Cyan already has for the hood. The Neighborhood.py script could then just be changed so that it reads the vault, checks to make sure the hood is a Guild Hood based on the instance name of the hood, and then pages the PRP in.
Alternatively, you could also see if Cyan would mind creating five new hoods for the guilds, with the changes added into them, but this would probably be more work and they would more than likely not be interested in doing that. Or conversely ask them if they'd be willing to let someone from the community do this using their max files for the hood.