Ryzom

I anticipate seeing a lot of mostly-empty open source Ryzom worlds soon, and have a proposal for how to build them out.

Rather than each server creator trying to create the whole world using something like http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/WorldEditor , it would make a lot of sense to provide the ability for USERS to create sub-regions of the world, using tools that requires no privileged access to the server machine. It's very important to unleash the creativity of people other than ourselves!

We have such a user-created-scenario tool, mostly, in the Ryzom Ring scenario editor. My proposal is to tweak the way that such scenarios are integrated into a world -- rather than the Ring terminal and a list of scenarios that remain active only as long as someone is "in" the scenario ... I envision an extensible world having a lobby area with a couple of dozen PORTALS arranged in a circle, and a means for a user to attach a Ring-style scenario to a portal.

This would require a little coding to make the integration of Ring style scenarios smoother -- particularly, their temporary nature, access via the Ring terminal, and the inability to bring inventory and XP back into the main world with you. However, it would require no major new scenario-building features, as far as I can see, in order to be useful. Yesterday, Sweetmarie gave me a demo of her Christmas scenario via the Ring terminal in Fairhaven, and it included find-an-object quests, scripted mobs, villages, etc, laid out on a pre-packaged terrain. Plenty enough to allow for some interesting user-created parts of a world.

Lathaa