I think it's wonderful, something changing in Uru, even if it's not a new age, or a continuation of the story, or new puzzles, though I'm not a big puzzle person. Maybe I'll even get to interact with a Bahro.
It might even bring me back to the cavern. Right now I only come for the occasional event. I haven't even been able to bring myself to do all the ages, this go around. I don't take pleasure in doing and redoing the ages, since the experience of doing them is exactly the same, every time. I can only reread the book so many times.
On the show, darn I missed it.
On waiting for Cyan to give permission -- I don't know anything about the discussions between RAWA and the grey hats. But, from my observations, Cyan has always been glacially slow on doing anything. Wait, "slow" implies movement -- let's say, immobile. We still don't have open source Uru. I know, Cyan doesn't have resources (and I really believe that). Even if Cyan has good reasons, if you wait for them to do something, you wait forever. Historically, it's always been better to take the initiative, because, and I'm not trying to be mean here -- Cyan will do nothing. After that little flurry of stuff when Cyan announced that people could make content, then the announcements about open source Uru -- nothing.
So Uru has nothing new coming from Cyan. Uru is mostly static, but there are some small wonderful changes, done by OHB and company.
And no one needs to go to the new hoods. What could be better? You never have to see it.
I'm still waiting for The Fun House to be a public neighborhood. And I can't wait to see how the event Hood of Illusion planenrs figure out how to notify people when the Hood of Illusions is having something new happen. That might even get me to logon to Uru every couple of days, if I'm going to get messages on events.
So -- all good for me.
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I'm going to address the "special treatment" thing. It always annoyed me when there was a story thing that involved players (even the excellent Zardoz), not because they got singled out, but because the restof us got nothing. I don't play Uru so I can read about what happened to someone else. Now, if Uru would have been filled, crammed with new stuff, new story, new interactions, new things, things that all players could experience, then having individual players get a special story thing or interaction from Cyan -- that would have been fine, interesting, swell. I would have enjoyed reading about what other people were experiencing if I was experiencing something new myself. And of course, goes without saying, this new stuff should have been available at all days, all times of the day or night.
Now for players having events -- I'm more forgiving on times, though I recommend that some events done by the grey hats be done at times that are favorable for the people not living in the Americas.
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