Petition to bring back the old playerworld system

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by geneticfrog

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.

Someone has to make the server. If we really were to return to the old method of playerworld creation which required you to plan out your server and find a dedicated staff team ahead of time, what room would there be for developers just getting started? If you were a server owner, would you really hire the scripters who can't script, the levelers who can't make levels, the graphic artists who can't draw?

Somehow limiting the options that Graal's current developers have is supposed to increase the number of available developers. All it's really going to do is scare them off.

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".

Thus far, Testbed has proved largely ineffective at teaching new scripters. On the contrary, Graalians have been learning to script for personal projects for the past several years, and it's been working. The problem is not that Graal doesn't have enough developers, it's that Graal doesn't have enough players. Developing on Graal just isn't appealing to serious programmers when they could be getting far more traffic elsewhere. Players get involved with development because they enjoy Graal.