I'm just wondering now.. this is an interesting ideas for more reasons than some people think.
We've already seen fallout of stuff like ths. Remember the whole idea of shards? Imagine, if you will, we get open source Uru, and we can set up our own shards. But Cyan keeps MOULa running too, as another shard in the list (like D'mala was at one point). Remember the UserKI? We had all sorts of arguments here already about that too. It all boils down a lot to the same fundamental question however.
How much diversity and control do we want? How much will we ALLOW? How much does Cyan want to give us? Are they going to say "here's the code, but you can't change a thing of our established content or implied content like D'ni history, and have to follow the FCAL guidelines. Oh, and you have to follow these stylistic guidelines too, if you want to use our ages. Oh, and you can't do X Y or Z to the game either. If you want that redo your own thing. Oh and you can't use or reference our characters either. Or ages. Or anything connected to D'ni."
Mmmh. That's their perogative.. but the question think comes up about how much diversity versus 'purity' people want. We can always keep purity with only one server run by Cyan, no shards, no open source beyond bugfixes. Sure you can have your ages, but they're kept in the new-Age ghetto, segregated. Don't touch our pure plotline of D'ni canon with your 'interpretations' and 'interpolations' and imagining new stuff as anything other than fantasy. It'd be like what they say Second Life is. All these unassociated worlds all just free-floating. You can explore them, but there's no continuity.
It seems some of us WANT that. They don't want a server that pretends anything. Don't pretend you can imagine the timeline, only Cyan can do that, and if you try pretending hypotheticals we will CUT YOU DOWN because we are fans in the pure fanatic sense of the word, and Cyan is our holy gospel.
Maybe I'm just starting to get bitter and cynical of all of these things. Maybe it mirrors too much of what I've seen in the world. My own views are known.. but they have no bearing on this. What gets me and what hurts me is we want to protect what we love so dearly we will smother it to death and strangle anyone who suggests otherwise, who suggests that we let it free even the little bit. Perhaps that's why some people are campaigning so strongly to push us to Second Life.. they see the barriers we're setting on ourselves and want to flee from that, keeping friends with them. This is beyond a matter of "well do what you want on your shard, we'll do what we want on ours" this is the point of screaming "no don't do that you'll KILL URU".
I say his idea is remarkably thought out compared to some you see, and I am GLAD for that. I hope if it comes to it he finds a shard he can work with for that... and it keeps itself going with something to offer for other types too. And I hope the less liberal members of the community realize that part of being a community is a matter of realizing diversity exists, and the only way to stamp it out.. is to get rid of everyone.
And with that enough rambling from me. I doubt most people will read this beyond quoting lines to shout at.. I always write too much particularly late at night when feeling sorry for myself and us. Though.. who knows? My only hope is that people will read this and go "He's a mean person/people, we're fine, and here's what we'll do to show so" or "He's right, man how could we do such a thing? Here's what we'll do to show others!" or "Wow, you know, I never thought of it like that and I don't know either way, but it does raise interesting ideas for me to ponder. I think some is right and some is wrong, and here's why and what I'll do with that"
As long as it gives THOUGHT. Because we can't continue praising the ground Cyan worships on if they are going to be unable to continue it... and me, I'd rather switch to a gas flame than stare at burnt embers because we worried passing the torch would ruin it.
-Gondar (Muffincakes)
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