Dante's 10 step process for making a playerworld like everyone else
 

1) Think of an idea for a playerworld at 3:00 am or whenever and write it down.

2) Brainstorm. Take a couple of ideas and think of how they'd work.

3) Think of a name.

4) Send hordes of mass messages asking for talented NPC scripters. Sell your idea to your friends to get them to work on the best playerworld ever.

5) Start on the first main outerworld levels. If done manually, quit at this point and scrap the project. If done with level generator, proceed to step 6.

6) Add in a few towns houses etc.

7) Add NPCs to those houses. If able to do graphics, make them and continue. If not, quit in frustration.

8) Make dungeons filled with baddies.

9) Steal an NPC script and as many ganis as possible.

10) Complain about the Playerworld administration team ad infinitum.

woo!

We already have a server that followed this process, it's called Delteria

The steps I'm using:
1.Create overworld/outline using level gen.
2. Create storyline with a detailed plot and characters (I'm on this part for a playerworld I started that I work on in my spare time)
3.Write out some main towns and what they will do in the storyline and draw a rough sketch of what they'll look like and start work on storyline quests.
4.Build the main towns and add NPC's that move about the town doing things randomly that gives it a touch of realism.
5.Add some small towns that aren't necessary for the growth of the story but are fun or can be used to collect an item to start a quest or such.
6.Start major work on quests and make sure they fit in with the plot/storyline.
7.Add house insides that fit with the outside of the house,like don't make a giant steel hosue and then have the insides look like it is made of plants.
8.Add in some small things to do so the players don't gt bored after they finish the main stuffsuch as fishing,etc.
9.Let some friends test it and tell you what needs to be fixed and what doesn't fit/make sense.Fix those and then on to step 10!
10.Submit it to Genmo or TrueHeaT and if it makes it cry about how long it's taking to go on the server list.
This is how a server gets up!BING BANG!

Actually, all you have to do is buy a bunch of p2p accounts and Stefan will put ANYTHING of yours up because you're a "valuable" customer.

I need a name!!@

IcePick
Ice_Pick
IcePick2K1
Ice_Pick2K1
IcePick2001
Ice_Pick2001
IcePickle
IcyPick
IceHammer
Mr. Pick

Actually, this would go into my unwritten step 4.5: Tell people how great your server is.

I don't tell people how great my server is!I'm like the only one who's working on a server who hasn't started a thread about how great it'll be o.o

who is this level generator?

level gen = crappy program that shouldve never been created that allows you to make hundreds of blank grass levels in record time

Ohh god.. enough with the level gen
 

So are you trying to say that my playerworld sucks cuz im using level gen.. ? There is nothing wrong with level gen, as long as you fill in your levels, and not leave them blank. Only an idiot would do that.

Re: Ohh god.. enough with the level gen
 

No...I meant what I said and nothing else...I hate level gen.

me too, I did all of babylon by hand

Don't be a *****. Level generator is great if you use it the right way. It automatically creates land features for you, saving you a lot of time.