matthornb wrote:
I like your ideas, and I've always liked the idea of stringing together the entire descent.
I love the idea of taking down the volcano fences in the Cleft, letting players climb up to the rim of the volcano, then jump into the interior of it (from Myst V) and then go down through all the places we've seen along the Descent - the rest area, the Great Shaft, K'veer, the other cave areas - and finally ending up at some sort of entrance to the city.
That is - I'd love to see all those official existing pieces of the descent connected together into one enormous explorable space, with the parts in between them filled in
I hate to be a downer, and I could very well be wrong on this but I thinks it's just too big do be whole, according to Atirus map Descent is around 32 miles long, And most of those miles would be pretty boring, I mentioned above most of the breaks in the tedium as it were. At anyrate I don't think the server could handle a place lat was 32 miles long without breaking it up. And seeing as how the only load screens are during linking that's why I threw in the need to link to Direbo in the first place.
matthornb wrote:
- but this is something that needs to be Cyan-managed and Cyan-approved.
I don't necissarily suscribe that it needs to be Cyan managed (or completely Cyan approved)
matthornb wrote:
If we can get to Cavcon 5, and a Cyan staff is assigned to Uru, maybe they could organize a fan team to do this (and other projects like it) under Cyan Worlds supervision?
I can't see Cyan having the funds to do this all themselves, and I can't imagine them letting fans do it independently of Cyan supervision, but I can imagine a core group of Cyan designers supervising a fan dev team, to accomplish fan development of the game which lines up with Cyan's vision for what the game should be.
There are alot of ifs and maybes in that, although I do not completely disagree with you, But I would love to first show them that we can handle this rather than for us to wait for them to possibly if we are lucky have something bestowed upon us. I'd rather givve it to them as a big gift from us and they can either go, 'Aww thanks I know just where to put this' or 'Umm you really shouldn't have'. Then they could use that time and effort to focus on other things like those other Ages...
Jevasi wrote:
Well actually I highly doubt that any of the ages in myst 5 were intended to be released via the shaft, they were all just stuck their and hastily connected via the seer's storyline. .
Actually they were hastily connected through the Tablet storyline, but yes I understand what you are saying
Jevasi wrote:
They were never originally intended to be connected, Todelmer was one of the museum ages along with Negelian, and I would hate to see it just shoved into a nook in the shaft, both Laki and Noloben were listed on the DRC age list indicating that they would likely have just been added in the library, Tahgira was probably just whipped up for the game and may or may not have existed at all before hand.I would love to see the shaft made, presuming that its not stepping on anyone's toes, but I hate the idea of continuing to stick together four random ages together just because Cyan did in a final act of desperation to get a game out, no offense to any of the good folks at cyan, I understand why it was necessary for them to do it but I don't see why we should.
Well I could be really mistaken but I thought that that Seer storyline which is at least partly taken from Cyan (there is even concept art if you desire it dragged out), was rather well though out on my part. But it is appearent that some of us would not want to go to these Ages while travelling the Decent, or better yet would like a "choice" so it could very well be while there are linking Books to Direbo once you are there you are given a choice, a linking Book to one of the Four Ages or and alternate book returning you to the next part of the Decent... Oh and I don't see any reasons linking books can't be in multiple places at once for isn't, Gahreesen in one of Yeesha's Pillars but also in all of the Hoods as well. But these are just my thoughts. What are yours?