by GPNMilano » Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:52 pm
I'd argue, that age creation isn't all about modeling,texturing and programming. I think one of the things many fan ages lack is story. The story doesn't need to necessarily be about the age itself, or even it's writer. A prime example is Uru's King Book's. a lot of D'ni's history was fleshed out because of those books. Dates, places, etc. So, for anyone out there who can write a story better than model an age, I'd suggest that they put those talents to some use. D'ni's history can still be fleshed out. Cyan left alot of wiggle room on what we can and cannot expand. Adding in more of that 10,000 year history with additional politicians, families, age histories etc, could go a long way to helping age creators. Story writers could write journals like the King Books, and other existing Journals in the game, post them somewhere here on the forums, then the age creators could take these stories and incorporate them into journals in the game itself, lifting some of the burden off the age creators to add all the back story themselves, while giving story writers something to contribute.