Project Nostalgia

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by maximus_asinus

Plenty, just take a look around. For example Snow Town now consists of multiple versions of itself (including Sylphia), as well as a few areas which never existed in Snow Town in the first place (to my knowledge). I deem this area "up for grabs", as now it would take time and energy to restore it to any one version, and that effort could be better spent working on a NEW project. Another example is the Singles Bar, if Classic isn't prepared to make use of the level, I'll be sure to "claim" it too.

Maybe key areas isn't the proper term I should be using, maybe areas of importantance (which can vary from person to person, I know). Really anything you feel should exist now but isn't online.

I'm not really sure if projects aimed towards adapting the server to (for most of the part) suit its dead previous audience is going to change anything at all, other than entertain people like yourself who are not exactly reliable or consistent players. Would this really be adhering to "meaningful contribution" of the server? I mean, all you're potentially doing besides the addition of old content is contributing to an increase of the already oversized overworld, which has practically nothing of purpose at current anyway. The (now) extremely dated content may hold memories for some, but memories cannot be recreated so I think you're not going to reap as much benefit as you think you will.

[maximus_asinus]

Originally Posted by Rufus

I'm not really sure if projects aimed towards adapting the server to (for most of the part) suit its dead previous audience is going to change anything at all, other than entertain people like yourself who are not exactly reliable or consistent players. Would this really be adhering to "meaningful contribution" of the server? I mean, all you're potentially doing besides the addition of old content is contributing to an increase of the already oversized overworld, which has practically nothing of purpose at current anyway. The (now) extremely dated content may hold memories for some, but memories cannot be recreated so I think you're not going to reap as much benefit as you think you will.

The dated quality is a huge part of what Classic is, but I agree, it is dated and players will want something visually pleasing. This is why I am making an effort to collect works that aren't terribly dated as to the point where they'd be deemed an eye sore. Believe it or not Classic isn't full of dinosaur aged levels. There are a few 'diamonds in the rough' as they say. I'll do my best to adjust for quality, and even then I'm hoping the new content that I create is enough to offset the dated quality you mentioned before.

As for increasing the size of the overworld, I don't really see any harm in doing so (other than the obvious spreading out players, but I'm hoping the new content is enough to attract a few more people and offset this). This is 50ccs of new content I am trying to inject into a server on life support. It may kill it, but it could be enough to settle the critics for awhile, and bring in a few more newbies.

Anyways this is purely hypothetical, I am not going to engage in a serious debate on something that may not even succeed.