Testing Age

[Luetwo]

I am in the process of changing my ages from discovered to newly created and I had this idea. I thought perhaps it is one the GoW could use. I have an age that started out as an artist's home. There was a floor for his work to be seen, a floor for the family to live and a floor for the daily operations of the place to occur.

I was thinking of changing it to be our trial area. Cyan will not put untested books into the nexus and I don't think we really want that either. We also need to have these ages tested by the maintainers. what if I take this age and we could use the bottom layer for the writers, the second layer for the maintainers, and the top layer for all other explorers to have access to our ages. This would also keep them differentiated form Cyan's ages.

As the book moves up the levels in the house, it is closer to being released to the public.
We would need some kind of imager system by each age being written for suggestions and comments from the other writers and from the maintainers. While hopefully our ages will be able to stand on their own, we do need to follow t he safeguards set up by the D'ni and by Cyan.

[Trylon]

I think the idea is quite nice.

Unfortunately, Cyan has reserved the rights on library ages for themselves.
As your idea effectively is a library age, it unfortunately can't be created for that purpose.

[Luetwo]

While it may be a little like a library age, it is more. Cyan has not yet said they would accept our books into the game. There are several legal and copyright rules that will have to be figured out. I don't even know if they will allow our books to be a part of our own Nexus'. This age would allow us to do some of the work on player ages while ingame, it would give the maintainers a place to test the books and it would definitely differentiate between player worlds and Cyan worlds. From the number of people currently working on ages, we will have several done fairly soon.
Whoever is dealing with Cyan about player ages, already, might want to at least bring up the idea. It would give us a place to work on and show off our ages. They could be accessible to the group without necessarily being a part of URU proper. There could be a sign in the building stating that these links are to be taken at your own risk.

[Chacal]

I think the idea is quite nice.

Unfortunately, Cyan has reserved the rights on library ages for themselves.
As your idea effectively is a library age, it unfortunately can't be created for that purpose.

I must have missed that one. They said so in that many words?

[belford]

Not about MOUL.

Go ask them. It's better than guessing at an answer and turning it into a law.

[Luetwo]

Then perhaps you can explain that to me more because I just don't get it. We are encouraged to write ages. A maintainers guild has been formed. I would think they would like to have this work done at a place they could control as opposed to another website out of their juridiction. Also If these ages will ever be released as some part of URU then wouldn't this facility be perfect. It would be seperate from their Nexus and still allow the newly fromed guilds to do their work. and the newly formed ages to be viewed by the other explorers of the cavern.

[BAD]

I have split off the MOUL discussion to keep it from distracting from the point of this thread. If your looking for that kind of talk go here.

BAD

[Robert The Rebuilder]

I must have missed that one. They said so in that many words?

Yep. Back in March 2006 (or so), the Vivarium of D'ni was interested in constructing a library age in which to house all the fan-created ages. Myridean sent a FCC request to Cyan, who had denied it stating that they had plans for such a library age. Consequently, we added an entry to the Age Approval Status wiki denoting this.

[belford]

March 2006 was a long time ago. How long? That was before the first public announcement that MOUL would be offered through Gametap.

Ask again. Seriously, we have *one* current pronouncement from Cyan about how they'd like to handle Ages(*). That happened because someone asked GD a question.

(* See post: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=786 )

I don't want to recommend a question blitz, because GD's stance in that post is pretty clearly "We're not announcing our plans yet." But if you propose a specific Age plan, you may get a specific answer -- which is better than an answer from the D'mala era two years ago.

[belford]

(Why do I say "specific"? Because you don't want to get caught in a vague declaration of "Well, Cyan is thinking about a Library Age, and you're thinking about a Library Age, and those sound too similar." Name a plan: what your library is for, who created it, what's in it, what function it will serve for players. It might turn out that your idea bears no resemblance to whatever Cyan has in mind.)