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Originally Posted by salesman
I'm not making a convincing argument? You're basing your opinion off of an assumption that limiting UC servers to people who have already thoroughly planned out their project will somehow magically breed successful servers. Why? A planned project can fail just as easily as one that is not, and there's nothing stopping you from planning out a project ahead of time already.
Have you considered the fact that there's now several servers to compete with as being why there are fewer "successful" servers now? I'm sure it was easy to become successful when players didn't really have many other options. Graal's population is already spread thin as it is, making it very difficult for a new server to get a starting player-base especially with so much competition. Correlation != causation. The playerworld system is not necessarily the cause of newer servers being unable to succeed.
I can see this system completely backfiring and turning even more developers (current and potential) away from this game. Where you see bad in the playerworld system, I see good. I think the best thing Graal has to offer is that anyone can start their own project with almost no restrictions. If they fail...so what? At least they gained experience that can help them somewhere else. Not to mention they just paid for your home server to stay hosted.
I've learned so much by working on several UC servers that I probably can't even name anymore, and I'm sure that is true for most of the developers reading this.
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I do not agree. Currently you need to pay for gold (or get their parents to) so that they can even get on any UC servers... If someone wants to LEARN dev theres test beds for scripts and for level and gfx you dont need to be on a UC server for feed back on either.
Even with the current system someone looking to learn dev doesnt MAKE a server thats just dumb... they JOIN servers.
With that said that means that if some groups of players manage to get a free server that still allows other people to learn dev underthat server if those people acutally hire him.
Have free servers and free dev will GREATLY increase the traffic graal is getting with UC servers. Really if we keep the system people need to pay 100 bucks to start deving.
if you switch it anyone can practice on any free server... I dont see how changing the system would make it worse.... I only see good things happening.
People can submit gfx to sites including this forum and for levels they can submit it on graal. For scripts they can still request a server bed or they could work alnog side other people on "free rquested servesr".