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2010-12-22 10:19:45 am

The 4th Age is back online for a limited time courtesy of AWI.

Check it out download Active Worlds software and visit world AD& Grin

RPG!

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Hyper Anthony

2010-12-22 04:29:32 pm

SW'ian Gray!

You know I'm sure you could work it out with Tom to keep the world up 24/7 if you really wanted Wink

ww

2010-12-22 08:17:29 pm

cool, its been too long...

DM Mercury

2010-12-23 05:26:41 pm

i've been trying =/

Hyper Anthony

2010-12-23 08:50:07 pm

SW'ian Gray!

Just gotta be strategic about it. Why would AWI want to keep the world up 24/7?

For one, it's a historic world. Two, and more to AWI's appeal -- games (especially free games) are a good and useful draw for new users. If AWI sponsored AD& Grin

RPG, I think it would be fair for the world to support users buying citizenships by offering in-game incentives to citizens, while still allowing tourists to play for-free to get them interested.

You already have a system like that set up for donations, but I'm sure you could figure out something more automated to generate citizen content or cit-only items, or maybe just give a certain amount of gold or items to a player the first time they log in as a citizen.

Just throwing out some ideas with that, but I know Tom to be very reasonable and I think he'd go for that. Smiley

DM Mercury

2010-12-24 09:24:30 pm

main problem is there is no staff to maintain ad&d anymore, and the world is huge... more than I can manage to keep up with. i want it around, but a historical perspective is really all we got i think.

Hyper Anthony

2011-01-03 05:53:32 pm

SW'ian Gray!

Well that seems like a simple enough problem to fix, really. Just take a look at the world in a different way. It may, at this point, be a good idea to just cap off incomplete content and limit new content to bugfixes and maybe something for PvP for people who reach the end of existing content. I like how you can drop items and gold -- people can make their own games like that... seems like the only thing that's stifling that is an inactive world community.

As far as staff goes, I've noticed everyday that I come in a few people in the world at any given time. If all of the content is working correctly really the only staff you'd need is a small team to keep the peace... just give a few of the regulars that you trust eject and you're prolly good to go on that.

DM Mercury

2011-01-08 09:39:49 am

currently under discussions with tom for a permanent renewal