@Envie, welcome back.
I think you will see the fan ages added to the Cyan MOULa server conform to Myst-Uru style and story. What happens on the fan run MOSS servers is up to fans. So, they may or may not conform, but then you don’t have to play on the ones you don’t like.
Over at GoW and OpenUru.org are plans and ideas for making changes to the user interface. Also, ideas and plans for change the game start, repairing instancing and many other parts of the game that have annoyed players.
Getting to see more areas of the cavern… I’m not hopeful. The existing game areas are reserved by Cyan for their possible future use. So, for now it appears fans can’t modify those areas. But, there are parts of those ages I would like to see opened too.
There are a number of us that Tweet, there are Facebook pages and fan groups, there are new iPhoen/Smart Phone versions of some Myst games, and a number of us are building Myst-Uru style things in other virtual worlds and pointing people to MOULa. So, some buzz is around. Also, there is the movie that seems to be slowly moving forward. So, there are possibilities.
[/@]
@VoiZod, I’m not sure what you are thinking of as a sandbox. Cyan has a test server and is planning to make one available to fans. If you are thinking of a sandbox like those in Second Life, where one can make an object from a set of primitive shapes then color and texture it all while in-world in real time, I doubt that will ever happen. Remember. Uru is all pre-made content that is downloaded at game start. To have any new objects added in real time would require a major change in the game infrastructure. I expect the MOSS servers will soon be our private sandboxes.
Also, when you say Cyan requires everything be our own… they have a fan license that allows us to use Cyan stuff for use in fan ages. Otherwise, we must have the rights to anything we bring in game. There are public domain models we can use because the rights use to them are unrestricted. There are other models and textures that their creators allow to be used with minor restrictions (think Creative Commons). Cyan’s requirements are that we have clear ownership or use rights to anything that might end up on their servers. That keeps them from being sued.
[/@]
I want something to do that is fun every day. While I hate grinds, something like that is needed in Uru. I suspect the lake lighting was intended to be in that trend. But, work done to visible result is out of balance and it doesn’t work. Endlessly dropping pellets for years to see such small change doesn’t work.
May be if the fans dropped 10k, 100k, or a million or some doable number of pellet points in a day produce visible results that faded over time people would be more interested.
Having something happening in-world that people can talk about generates more activity and reason to login.
_________________ Nalates - GoC - 418 - MOULa I: Nal KI#00 083 543, MOULa II: KI#00 583 875Nalates 111451 - Second Life: Nalates Urriah Guild of Cartographers 
|