I'm bored and want to make a playerworld!
 

Well, I think I may end up making a playerworld. However, I have an idea on how to go about this. I plan to get copies of old worlds and look through them and look at what they did that was good, and what they did that wasn't good.

With this research and content I then plan to build some sort of a world. My world will utalise all this idle content. By which, I mean ideas that are brilliant (I remember seeing a few - although a lot were pot quests and killing baddies) will be used and built on for this world.

This is not a server revival. Those tend to fade, and I do not intend to remake any specific world. The world I will make will be new, with elements and ideas sourced from the past as well as new ones. I also think it's not so fair to take all the content and put it back online again which is why only parts will be taken.

To give you an idea, for example, houses and buildings that were nice from the old worlds could be reused in the levels on this new world. This will cut down production time dramatically. But this is not going to be a merge of the worlds, this is not going to be a copy and paste compliation of past worlds. But ideas that were unique. Content that was good and hasn't been reused again (i.e: ideas copied) will be given new life and built on for this world.

I am just wondering what the feedback for this idea will be. I don't want to copy content, but nor do I want to see great content idle in zip files on a back-up server. I think I could do this right, and I do not intend to make the world a copy of any that the ideas are taken from. So comments are welcome.

Worlds that will be studied: Faheria, Andora, Xone, Bravo, Galethia, Doomsday, Mithica, X, Frolic, Elven Lands, Sidra , Graal3000, Tempist of TIme, Providence, Dino Valley, New Cite Perdue, Auroria

Possible other worlds: Enigma, Sanstrata (these are possibly online and being worked on, in which case they wont be used or looked at).

If you can think of any other past online worlds that aren't online, and were in a completed/released state - please let me know!

Sounds good, but is it allowed?

I've contacted Stefan, and I could access such content. So that parts satisfied. Will need to look into it more first though!

Seems like a great idea!

One thing people focus on are the new age levels, which look nice, but not needed as much as the game itself.

I think having some good theme is good. Having a ton of quests, which doesn't take ages to do, though shouldn't take a few minutes to do as well.

Would be awesome to have it kind of like, having some lands open up upon completion of some things, like quests, obtaining certain items, or whatever.

I guess, a multiple amount of goals to get to, making sure people can take a lot of paths.

Cool, good luck with it :)

Thats awesome that you copy and pasted ToT with the typo from me =D

I'd be happy to work with you on the Enigma levels :)

I don't mind you using them at all so long as I know what ones you are using and such.

Xone- Do not forget our community. It was awesome. No complicated ****. The following two things were really cool then and I'll probably use the ideas on any server I work on:

Apartments: The renting system was extremely easy. Pay a certain amount, you get to keep an apartment room forever. Limited supply of rooms, building positioned right off of the main town. You can invite a roommate and they'll get the "key" too. The doors were password protected meaning the keys were just there to recognize the master. The rooms were very basic and had the basic things (couch, bed, small kitchen) in one level. What was so great about this?

PARTIES! People would host parties and it was basically half the server packed in one room. Xone had a doll system and people would bring dolls over and throw them everywhere.

Kingdom wars:

This was very basic on Xone. There were probably about 3-5 towns on Xone. Nothing special about them, just your typical towns with playerhouses and such. The twist? The managers would get on sometimes and simply start a kingdom war. Tags were given to everyone participating and each team was assigned a king each and a city. The king had to hide in that city while players had to both protect their own king and kill the opposite king. It was a "GO ANYWHERE YOU CAN LOL" kind of thing and was hella fun.

Sort of like the Marsh cat hotel on EL, eeh?

Dino Valley, Dino Valley ! :)

DV definately!
If you need any idea of what was great from Doomsday drop me a PM or something. However, prepare to battle with Tifa if you want even the tiniest drop of DD content to be in the server. (If you just plan to use ideas, then I don't think it matters how much of a protective psycho she is sometimes.)

I dont want you taking things from Icarus. Those are our ideas and we have a right to them.
Im not sure how you will get this content but dont try it for Icarus. Ill delete it all if i have to.

What? I don't see Icarus on the list. He isn't taking anything from PW's online, or being worked on.

Hell yes i refuse to allow it after this post. I also heard Jubei refused to give you all DD levels so i guess he's one to ;)
My work here is done XD

No one said he was.

Lancelot just got owned.

Well I'm happy with the positive feedback, as I expected lots of DO YOUR OWN STUFF. But I guess this is very different from a revival project of taking everything and reusing it!

It would be nice to see parts of enigma back in the works... Lead developer had it's up and downs, I'm sure many would agree those most remarkable part about Enigma and any other playerworld is to see the player's opinions and reactions.

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Maybe you're mixing me up with Hiro? I haven't talked to Jubei in over three years.

Grow up Tifa, if you're going to troll the forums everyday begging to see a mention of the word Doomsday just so you can make a fool of yourself again, you're going to get what you ask for. I've never once asked for DD stuff for development, at this point I could care less. You've pretty much ruined it for us all anyways.

So, based upon your post, spark could not use any of the content unless he gets in contact with the last managers of each playerworld he wants to use ideas from? Am I correct?

Correct.

Though, upon contact of unixmad and Stefan, someone who wishes to revive a world can contact them and those two can over ride the last active Manager of a world. There's a difference between having rights and temp rights.

Though, Spark911 said specifically, he was going to "look" at the best of each worlds to propose some ideas with his project. I don't see a single thing saying he is going to use them.

I seem to also remember a rule saying that if you redo at least 70% of the content you use from a shut down playerworld you can re-use it.. or maybe that was for revival projects. I am not sure..

I don't remember seeing it.

Though, as Stefan said, if there is no one using that content and it's nice, then is there a reason to waste it?

true...i still think permission would be the best thing to go by here...you might piss off a lot of the graalian community. I don't think we need a civil war of graalians on our hands x.x
Although I would advise the previous owners not to frete too much. Think of it more as a tribute. I mean there could even be a tribute room on the server to show where the ideas came from in honor of each playerworld. I was the last owner of G3k and XOne, and the head admin of auroria...cause im not sure ...um actually i cant even remember the auroria owners...crap...he was a good friend of mine...all of em were i just cant remember their names...lol -funny

DV was not the last owner of Xone.

Re-read what Spark911 said, he said he is going to look up the best of each world for some ideas to create his world.

Plus, ideas aren't belonging to people?

Not to start anything, but you might want to re-read what Spark said. He did say he wanted to use content...At least, that's how I read it.

I'm starting to love you more and more <3

I mis-read it!

Then again, I wonder if it's possible to just merge all those worlds into one.

Spark, I'd be interested in helping. Also, I can grant access to use of ToT levels via GodSpeed so let me know if you need anything from there. I remember quite a few of those worlds and they ROCKED. Faheria and ToT especially, if you have AIM, contact me (wow theres matt), and if you don't, forum PM.

Reusing ToT would be sin, that was beautiful.

Funny story some person on ToT one day was trying to send me and godspeed a pic of "her" well i got it first and my antivirus caught it first, so I told him, and he gave me 15 gralat.

Good times.

Please do not use the Xone levels. I'm using the playerworld levels and *gasp* it's actively being worked on. I was kind of going to wait to debut this information but it looks like I have no choice now.

I received the back-ups from the previous owner Nishoku. Not sure if anyone can remember or not, but I was the LAT Admin on Xone. I think I went by Kasuagi back then or maybe Jago. Anyway, Kingdom Wars was hella fun, indeed.

This shouldn't be a problem, hehe, considering Xones levels were much more detailed that most of those other playerworlds, so it wouldn't really fit your theme if you're going for one.

I'm not sure what "right" I have to these levels but hopefully everything will work out... I've just put a lot of time into the project and now I discover they're possibly being used in some other project.

DV, you were not the last Manager of Graal 3000.

DV thinks he is the ruler of everything.. everything he touches turns to gold.

Why wasn't I told this? :/

What about Viktor?

Xone's levels can compete with today's.

You better not fail.

eh...i guess people were after me =/. Sorry, and nah everything I touch doesn't turn to gold. I'm pretty sure if I touched a really complicated script I could destroy it with quite ease haha...lol. Warcaptain, the only thing I claim that I am good at is levels. I am moderately decent at graphics, but I never claim I am great. :P. Who managed G3K last Eagle? You? I can't remember, that was ages ago. I know I was near the end for XOne and G3K

I've tried desperately to get in touch with Viktor. I can't track the guy down. I do have his old AIM screen name, but he never comes online.

I was waiting until I completed a few more areas before I debuted parts of the map. Just wait, and I promise it will be worth every second. ;)

Spark on question. If you take parts of old servers, does it really make the server yours? You should have some type of credits or stuff XD. Anywho, What I'm saying. If you take old ideas that arn't really your and use them. Should you get the credit?

Ive never seen Dino Valley, but everyone speaks of it as if its awesome and i really want to see it ^_^

Some of us Xone oldbies don't know about this and we still play. Fate, Joker (Now known as Fidel Castro), Dark Hero, Arann, myself, etc.