= How to build a Home Age =
Shorah One and All
With Sandbox proven and dusted the next phase was going to be a wiki on how to use the patched content of MOUL. But due to the current restrictions on MOUL content I am dropping this subject indefinitely. Instead I am moving onto Phase 2... How to Build a Home Age.
Once this is done, the info will be added to GoW's wiki to help age builders do what they do best, but giving you a clean slate to work from. Compatibility is a key issue here, and at no time will I be showing you how to modify GoW's CWE/dirtsand code base. The reason is that I have already thought out a way to implement shard hopping, which is impossible if compability is broken.
This wiki can't be done alone, and needs solid technical advise, and not ideas! If you have ideas, please post them somewhere else where they are needed and will be valued. However this is not the thread for that.
The know-how that will be detailed in the new wiki will cover;
1) The structure of a python file and what needs to be changed for your Home Age
2) The structure of an SDL file and what needs to be changed for your Home Age
3) The structure of an age file and what needs to be changed for your Home Age
4) How to change the default startup age to your home age
5) How to link out from your home age to another age
Prerequisites:
1) The methodology will be based on the wiki... Sandbox Shard
2) You will need at least two ages that you have built, to follow this wiki. One for your startup age, the other age for testing the ability to link.
3) Most of the Cyan content is going to be stripped out. (...gulp! for some of you - dont worry, if you want Cyan content, you must have a default install somewhere)
4) The size of the finished Home Age installation is going to reduce to by around 1 gig to 2 gigs, which makes data serving and age loading faster, and may just speed up things quite a bit.
If you are interested in this thread (and wiki) and want to add some value, feel free to join the team.
http://www.guildofwriters.com/wiki/Deve ... _Age_Howto
Later
Phoenix