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Some background: A while back I had the idea there should be a central server, so that all servers could be neighbors instead of competitors...and maybe we'd focus on making our individual servers better objectively rather than subjectively better than the "competition". Bad idea ultimately, everyone resents there being a server that comes along and is suddenly more important than theirs.
Thus: I propose an alliance of playerworlds, united in a rim with no center. Each PW shares information (via that PHP Send whatsit Stefan was talking about), each PW contributes to the overall gaming experience.
An example: say we have 5 playerworlds. All 5 owners are sure their PW has what it takes and should be launching any day now (but of course, we outside all see it'll fail miserably, just like all the others). They band together, each focusing on a different specialty (though likely still working on other aspects as well): a server with a really good job system, a server with a really cool pvp battle system, a server with a tonne of weapons to buy, a server with a bunch of quests, and a server with a bunch of housing related stuff. Players can work at the Job server, carry their money to the Weapons server, take the weapons to the Quest server, take their hearts/XP to the PVP server, then go hang out in the SimHouse server.
Eventually each server could grow its own version of its neighbors and spin off, I suppose, but what's the rush?
And the selfish angle: Really, I'd like to make parts of a server without having either to design the whole independent thing, nor leave it in the hands of the server's owner until it changes hands and gets "reinvented".
Ferinstance, I kinda wanna make a Mr. Driller server. But that wouldn't make a good Server, only a good job. I kinda wanna make a Waiter job too, like all these Bartender Tycoon games my friend's always playing, but I don't feel like scripting GS2 Movement. I got notes for a whole sidescroller server, but I don't feel like making it solo, nor trusting other people to make my server...but I wouldn't mind making a shop on my server that their players can use...
Good, Bad, Dumb, Flawed, Needs work? I know intraserver security will be an issue, have to keep backups of the common currency in case 1 server goofs up/is compromised... |