[Draenin]

If you want an explanation from me, it's this...

I'm not going to deck out all of my ideas on the forums or in the articles I've been writing for the same reason scripters don't post every little bit of code they do. I've got good reason to believe some people will be taking those ideas and running with them, which on the whole is counter-productive. (I've had people ask me if they can use the d20 algorithms I posted in one entry already, despite the fact that I've said it's open-source material.)

What I'm doing right now, though, is posting material for any user to utilize, whether it's simply advice or an entire set of algorithms for a system. I'm not going to lay out a lot of content and make a buffet out of it. You'll have to do that yourself. I'm simply offering useful ideas that anyone with the slightest bit of vision can take advantage of. I've laid out plans for a number of different servers, but I'm not going to be posting any of that. If you have the drive to achieve what you envision, what I do should give you an idea of where to take things and to hit the ground running. I'm wasting my time if I'm not provoking developers to think more crucially about the content they provide to their users, which is why I so strongly disapprove of servers that directly copy content. It's okay to get a basic idea for what you want a server to be like from something else, but to duplicate it in its entirety shows an intense lack of creativity.


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