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Chacal wrote: Statements 1 to 6 are what we know. Wow. You're saying we know these things, but you're not justifying how we know them.
Let's go back and review what we are basing "knowledge" on. I believe that boils down to two shreds of info: the Tony Fryman press release and Chogon's clarifying post from page 3 of this thread. Both of these appear to be initial statements of Cyan's hopes and intentions. Neither of them are the conclusive statement of policy we would hope to see when code and plug-in is released.
To recap, the Fryman press release: (in both cases, bolding is mine)
Quote: So, Cyan has decided to give make MystOnline available to the fans by releasing the source code for the servers, client and tools for MystOnline as an open source project. We will also host a data server with the data for MystOnline. MORE is still possible but only with the help from fans. This is a bit scary for Cyan because this is an area that we have never gone before, to let a product freely roam in the wild. But we've poured so much into UruLive, and it has touched so many, that we could not just let it whither and die. We still have hopes that someday we will be able to provide new content for UruLive and/or work on the next UruLive. This is also a bit scary for the fans. We realize that this could turn UruLive into the "wild west" and lead to many fractured and diverse MystOnline servers. But it is our hope that with the help of dedicated core fans (if you are reading this, it probably means you) that a safe and secure MystOnline server set (many servers from around the world working together as one) can be created that will let people explore and live in UruLive. .................................. This release will probably be accomplished in stages, but we hope to get things ready for the first stage very quickly. More details to surely follow. From this, we can deduce that Mr. Fryman, representing Cyan, would prefer to see a worldwide collection of fan servers working together, appearing to the playing community as one shard, rather than a "wild west" scenario of splintered, anything-goes shards.
From Chogon's Sat.AM post:
Quote: By opening up the source to MystOnline, it does not preclude Cyan from creating their own server in the future with Cyan's content and storyline. However, with our current situation, that might be a long ways off and we don't want to hold people back. Also, the architecture of the MystOnline servers is a *lot* different than the Until Uru servers. The MystOnline servers are very scalable and with some open source programmer help, it should be possible to have one shard (shard is not really a good term here) that has many servers, spread over the world but to the user playing, it will look like just one big server. And it should be possible to make them safe and secure. There still will be rogue servers created, which is fine. But with organization by guilds and other fan groups, and good information, UruLive can still be great place to live. Here, Chogon reiterates Cyan's hopes for a distribution model whereby fan servers worldwide are organized into one distributed "shard". He acknowledges the inevitability of independent operators setting up whatever and wherever they want, but still labels these "rogue" shards, thereby differentiating those from the distribution model Cyan hopes to see. Even regarding those "rogue" shards, Chogon hopes that organization will predominate, via the guilds and other fan groups: he's stating here that Cyan has no intention of bestowing exclusive server-hosting rights to the guilds or any other single group.
As far as I can see, this is all the information we have, and even this is still not written in stone.
If I've missed something, if there were posts or articles I've missed, then there may be "knowledge" that I haven't seen.
Otherwise, the "knowledge" you state applies only to yourself and those who wish to subscribe to your views, and not to the entire URU community.
Sorry that this over-analysis seems necessary...I will exit from of this thread at this point
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