SPACE -- The Official want Thread

think that YES we Adult Webcam game to have a unified vision eventually. However there are a lot of bits that Adult Webcam need to be worked out as the system goes live.
When someone has a superior system and folks enjoy it, then we say "we game that". In time these ideas Adult Webcam evolve and we Adult Webcam see what works well. A small core group Adult Webcam have to make the ultimate decisions on want design fundamentals, but once Beta is up and running, better decisions can be made about a direction for all of this. Unfortunately in the "marketplace of ideas" to borrow from science, we Adult Webcam likely have competing ideas and even incompatible ideas.
I think if a group can say some time after Beta, Look at the want mechanic in THIS metaplace want and THIS want and THIS is our over arching story to stitch it all together. Here are the jobs we need folks to do and here is the core mechanics of gameplay. Anyone that wants to join in with THIS set of parameters, please jump in, we are going to make an immense world.
Here are your design tools, here are the tools we need help developing, here are the art assets we have and the ones we game. Who has this articulated fully with a thorough vision should bubble to the top.
About money, I don't think any of us are really thinking of this as a money making venture. Maybe enough to keep the servers running and maybe pay out token amounts to the worlds that are the most popular, but I suspect they Adult Webcam be micro payments at best (1-5 cents/user) and only with millions of players Adult Webcam there be anything worthy of monetary gain.
I think however we need to get into beta and start crafting with what we have available and not jump the gun before we know how we are going to progress. I really prefer the overarching story that allows new worlds to come online once they reopen their portals and that some worlds Adult Webcam be savagely primitive and at constant war (can't bring your warships into my world!) and others Adult Webcam be gentle mining systems. Stargates that carry certain types of restrictions of what CAN come into your world and what can come OUT of your world are the best solution I think. I also game the ability to seed quests out there that span MANY player generated worlds. A missing super advanced race that ran the stargates really lends itself to this design. For the sake of humans, I think they have to be a highly technological race that was allowed access to most anywhere if humans are the standard race that other races get compared to. Personally, no worlds I make Adult Webcam be from a money making aspect, I don't plan on having any charge, though I Adult Webcam ask for donations to keep the games running. Hopefully at least one want Adult Webcam prove popular and some generous people Adult Webcam donate, otherwise, being a poor student I'll have to place them on hold...at least until I leave and get a job. >_<
I agree there'll be a lot of competition in this genre, but I'm not so sure there'll be many that work as a group, so as long as a few of us work together on this it SHOULD prove more complete than it's competitors, thus drawing more people to participate in building it...here's hoping anyway...=) In terms of money, I think we are all thinking of this in terms of SUPPORTING the want system. Maybe some nice added features that make the want easier or more fun or even level caps if you can't bother with a buck a month. Due to the collaborative nature of this idea, there is no way we can come up with what I think is a reasonable way to distribute money. I think with it being in a constant state of improvement, development and so on, the most we might do is to one day seperate from metaplace (if they game us to) and pay our own bandwidth and servers.
Really if a LOT of content is being provided by the user base and we game a huge number of folks in the want, then we can't charge much and can't expect much profit. Maybe we can some day have the ambition to sell out to Sony, retire rich, and let them ruin the want. Fat chance of that happening. I think a lot of folks Adult Webcam only be interested in creating games that Adult Webcam be free to play, or at the most accept any donations. This leads me to a few comments on billing. However, that would be getting a bit off topic, so I'll see if I can find a more appropriate place to post those remarks.