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Originally Posted by Gerami
Exactly! Making a PW took REAL skill, REAL dedication, and hell if you're good enough you -may- have had a hidden server. Why not emulate an npc server on the offline editor?
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Stefan made it clear over a year or two ago that there was not going to be any support for an offline NPCServer or so. More importantly, without having an online server to work on you have the problem of disconnectedness. Unless there is some central "pool" of work, then you have 30859734 people working on things and no one really has any idea what is going on. The whole point of the dev worlds, while it may spread thin the real developers, is to give access to a central point of work and more importantly the NPC Server.
What I was
trying to do right before I quit was work on a new server to be added to the gold list or so. Most of the people lined up and working were globals and kingdoms staff with a few exceptions, but Stefan and Unix both decided that they weren't willing to host a GServer that wasn't being paid for. The aim was to try and release a new server every 3-4 months, but I don't have $60 to shell out for a server, especially since I was not intending on keeping it but giving it to the other devs when it was finished. I have to wonder if the dev world system is literally an aim to get new playerworlds out, or if it is just way of bringing in revenue :/