I am going to attempt, attempt mind you, to tread very carefully with this post. So if my Shard Admin sees this, don't hate me.
I belong to a shard, that has been at the forefront of the Myst V hacks. It's been part of an ongoing storyline on the shard, a storyline written by a few key people, using all available resources. DRC avatars, Yeesha Avatar, Bahro in the city etc. It's been fun. Myself and a few others were instrumental in putting the necessary stuff from MOUL into POTS to make this possible. It really was a second season of MOUL in many ways. We took all the Myst V content that we could port over, added regions to it, added relto pages, etc. We spread this out over a period of several months so that the story flowed well.
This is what the rest of the community, and Cyan especially needs to get. That Myst V content, it's great. If we can port that into MOUL, finally, we'd have enough content, released slowly onto servers, to last weeks, if not months, while the new content from the fans comes as well.
Also, in that same regard but slightly different.
People want to fix the KI, Fix the Nexus. That's great. Except for one thing. 3DSMax models. You need them to make ANY physical improvements on those things. You can do it with PyPRP, I know. I have. But it takes hours of painstaking trial and error to do so. IF we are allowed to upgrade these things as we see fit, than we need to ask Cyan to release some, not all, but a few of the models from MOUL necessary to make this happen. the KI prps, Nexus Dialog PRP, and a blank Gulid Pub PRP (Sorry, but its not fair that new guild's like the Guild of Ink Makers, or the Guild of Archivers, if they're going to pop up, are not going to have a place in game, where they can have meetings like the others.)
On top of all that we have things like the Client. People want to make changes and adjustments to that, and I'm all for it. What we need to do is go at this from the stand point of "Code is released" We start the shards. The guilds, in cooperation with each other start a centralized server farm, that acts as the "Guild Shard" I see the majority of the MOOSE/OSMOUL joining this shard. This is just when it gets to us.
Then overtime, we start up smaller, internal servers, for testing improvements to the clients, whatever. These servers should not be open to everyone, but just for beta testing coded improvements for the client and server code. These are run by the GoIM (if there will be one)
Other internal servers are set up for fan age testing. These are run by the GoMA/GoW. These are more open in the regard that those who want to test their ages can place them here first.
As time goes by the improvements from these two smaller internal shards are released onto the main "Guild Shard" for the general community.
Whats important though is that no one should be excluded from this. Be it someone whose been here years, or someone whose just joined yesterday, everyone should be allowed, if they choose, to contribute to both internal shards. By contribute I mean the sharing of code and ages.
Thats my two cents.
by Aloys » Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:18 am 
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