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 @user-570 
 
 that sounds like a different application than what I was talking about (it's
 for the the MMO you mentioned right?)
 
 and I'm just going off of what I've heard. Like... the "don't make an MMO
 because you'll spend forever building the server code and won't ever get
 around to making the actual game" sentiment that is prevalent in the industry.
 I guess I'm just saying that with the open source advancements we've made
 (specifically with Azerothcore and Eluna) we can use the design of the best
 MMO ever made as a starting point and branch off from there roughly as easily
 as making another kind of game from scratch.
 
 Kinda was always the allure of Blizzard games to me, the idea that they were
 super duper modable.
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 Look all I'm saying is  all the people who say "oh you shouldn't make an MMO
 for your first game" clearly have never heard of Azerothcore. Literally as
 long as you don't sell it you can make the MMO of your dreams crazy easily.
 You can script it in LUA for crying out loud.
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 @user-570 
 
 have you ever wanted to design your own MMO? If you think you can make a
 client, there's a server already set up which interfaces with World of
 Warcraft. So... the hardest part is done, and suddenly the rest is about as
 hard as making any other game.
 
 The reason I ask is because there's no open-source client for the WoW engine
 server software Azerothcore, but if written then there could be a whole new
 field of indie design as solo developers would be able to build their own
 multiplayer games with ease.
 
 well, as easy as making a game in Godot at least. That's the dream. I don't
 think I could build such an engine, but I spend an awful lot of time thinking
 about how engines are built.
 
 There's a lot of freedom in the design space, for example this mod server I
 made which emulates Risk of Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HsW4g2ZIgk
 
 It has randomized enemies, treasure chests, wandering vendors, and deployable
 hearthstones. If you've played WoW that stuff might ring a bell, otherwise
 it's probably just random features
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 @user-570 
 
 true. the "massively multiplayer" aspect of WoW is about as important to the
 game as the "A" is in "ARPG".
 
 I can't help but feel like the "impromptu groups" functionality feels a bit
 better than matchmaker instancing... though anything worth running a group for
 in WoW after TBC was instanced >.>
 
 Honestly I think there's just too many games these days for people to really
 get "into" MMORPGs, unless they're sufficiently unique in their mechanics
 (like EVE or Runescape)
 
 any ARPG MMOs are dead on launch, as you said. That design space is tapped
 out, at least for now, until someone comes along and makes it a deckbuilding
 roguelike or whatever. cough cough
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 @user-570 
 
 I'd LOVE a game which taught toki pona!!
 
 You've brought some of this up before. I'm uninterested in co-opting some
 existing thing in a way I then can't support myself off of.
 
 Well my points are these:
 
 MMOs are difficult because of the added complexity in their networking
 
 an open source networking solution exists
 
 however no open source client solution exists
 
 but one could be written, which is about as hard as making a game using Bevy
 or Raylib or Love2D, and if one were written, then games could easily be made
 on-top of them which you would then support yourself off of. I mean... I'd
 want to support myself too haha, and I can think of like 100 different games
 that could be made in an engine like that.
 
 the idea is that by opening up more design space you can apply your ideas as
 an early pioneer in a particular design direction that hasn't been able to be
 explored because the up-front investments in making an MMO are huge.
 
 Meanwhile, with this system you could script them in Lua very easily.
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 I love programming, but I'm not a coder.
 
 you burn witches because you JUST CAN'T HANDLE THEM ANYMORE. I know, I get it.
 of course I do.
 
 I'm always so concerned that someone might stumble upon me. that they might
 read me. what a vulnerable state, to be afraid?!
 
 I really really really really wanna play world of warcraft
 
 my message to blissard is: treat World of Warcraft like a game engine, not a
 theme park please. I mean, the theme park should still exist, because it's neat
 but... the rest of the game engine could be used to create essentially
 anything with a 3rd person camera.
 
 singleplayer doesn't even need to worry about clipping animations. (lag)
 
 I wonder if you could run World of Warcraft on lowest settings in vanilla
 burning crusade or wrath of the lich king? good thing those are open source
 now, so you can host your own if you want. well, except the client, but nobody
 has bothered to write another one besides the owner and primary developers of
 the engine.
 
 movement system plugins? data memory?~~~
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 imagine if there was a stacking inf bonus to players who played on red /
 blueside
 which increased or decreased depending on either A. the number of players
 online
 at the time, B. the proportion of players playing on that team versus the
 other,
 or C. the time of day. Essentially helping to cure the faction imbalance by
 offering rewards to one side or the other which would encourage a certain group
 in the population of the game to change sides or not.
 
 perhaps frequent changing could grant a title called "mercenary" or something
 
 like "log in for each consecutive day for 10 days straight and each day switch
 faction alignment at least once"
 
 ... anyway you could cure the faction imbalance between redside / blueside by
 offering an INF reward for playing on each side one by one alternating like an
 iterator first red then blue or first blue then red either way it doesn't
 matter
 because it'll switch after a while and encourage everyone to switch sides. And
 the way the character responds to that stimulus tells you a bit about their
 character's personality.
 
 also...
 
 it should not affect AE or Pocket D farms.
 
 Nor missions, TFs, or anything else.
 
 they should SOLELY impact open world patrolling / hunting.
 
 I believe this would not only incentivize people to spend time in the open
 world
 (which is a mostly unused piece of game assets) but it would also increase the
 visibility of the newly bolstered faction numbers.
 
 Think about it - if everyone who switched sides is out in the open world, then
 they could see each other. They could fight the same mobs, and team up
 together.
 In doing so, they could form greater and greater supergroups - if only through
 their interactions with one another as they level up.
 
 If they're lucky, the guild they're recruited into has similar interests in
 mind
 like doing raiding or PvP or economics or alts or whatever. And they each have
 their own different styles of operating, it's soooo cute. Like alt guilds will
 pop up and then migrate to a new one as people make new alts and grow tired of
 them at higher levels.
 
 It's great.
 
 I love MMOs!
 
 I wish people put half as much effort into making an open source WoW client
 that
 they do programming game engines like Godot or Raylib or Bevy. If such a thing
 was created, we could have a new rennaisance in indie MMO development. It would
 become fully non-proprietary, the entire game-platform-stack. Meaning anyone
 could create their own MMO off of it, because (crucially) the serverside soft-
 -ware has already been reverse engineered. And open sourced.
 
 Seriously. You wanna make as much bank as Steam? Make an open source client
 that
 lets you design while in it. Then you could charge people for all the games
 that
 they played that were designed and hosted by you the content designing software
 maker.
 
 ... okay it's probably not that simple I'm going to go play Unreal
 Tournament2k4
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║ I'm an anarcho monarchist, which is something I just made up.                    │
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║ if I gather 300 people to my cause, why shouldn't they call me queen?            │
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║ oh, are you concerned that I'll wrest power from the government? ha, what a      │
║ trifling notion. I don't care about the government. I tried to care, but         │
║ nobody liked my ideas. they required too much computing infrastructure to        │
║ feasibly test, and that made people dubious. but I tell ya, it would have        │
║ worked. The thing is... governance, economics, these are not the tools of        │
║ power. they are a shifting and changing beast that mirrors the human instinct,   │
║ if only because the government is of the people and by the people and for the    │
║ people etcetera.                                                                 │
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║ power is it's own thing. you can use to to power devices, or power the usage     │
║ of those devices. I, for example, really like World of Warcraft which's a        │
║ really neat way to chat because none of the chat logs are stored and monitored   │
║ because I'm hosting and I'm not storing and monitoring.                          │
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 Building community without structure is kinda like being a quest-giving
 non-player character in World of Warcraft.
 
 I don't mean that you stand around waiting for a player to wander nearby
 before shouting at them to do what you want. Not like that.
 
 Building community without structure is more like meeting someone randomly,
 knowing them for longer than a bus ride or a baseball game, and once you've
 decided that they're cool saying "hey there's someone you might like to meet."
 
 If they're into it, then talk to the other person, and see if they want to
 make a new friend. Try not to recommend someone who has a lot on their mind.
 
 If they hit it off, great!
 If not, oh well!
 
 Worst case scenario the coffee shop only sells two drinks.
 
 If you're gregarious enough, after a while you might even have enough people
 for a potluck. Just don't forget to keep adding, and eventually it'll start to
 feel more communal.
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 is that a blossoming bloom or a predatasaurus ready to consume
 
 ah. scary.....
 
 what was I saying? oh yes. if you remember that thing about money you'll have
 to
 agree, one buildion is not worth a billion dollars. how much is a
 1,000,000,000$
 goal? not much if you ask me, to never have to worry about a problem like "this
 part of the world can't get clean water" ever again. Could be useful when sore
 spots start showing up on the other part of way back [in/then].
 
 "we didn't even get to use any of the plastic anyway" - some guys in nigeria
 
 "quick, we better burn through as much of this as we can" - some guys around a
 metal barrel bin why do they never do that anymore these days?
 
 we used to take better care of the homeless. now they don't even get a fire to
 shamble around mindlessly around like weirdos who bonk into things like metal
 barrels full of fireplace ashes
 
 oh, were they just burning plastic? no, I swear, it was candlesticks and
 matches
 
 man there's always this nasty touch to the air.
 
 "yay free firewood for hobos!" boom solved a problem and I didn't even need a
 billion dollars to build the infrastructure for the solution to the problem
 that
 I solved.
 
 I really want to play World of Warcraft as The Ashbringer. But alas, they don't
 let you play through the most celebrated of events solo or with a party members
 chosen as one of the characters who was there LotR on Gamecube style but in the
 WoW engine because it's an engine for that sort of thing. (see my gameplay
 prototype wow-chat)
 
 there, solved another problem for "how to make money as Blizzard for the next
 couple of years" probably maybe idk if it's that valuable of a dungeon feature
 but it might be who can say idk remember again why I'm so sad that video games
 are going out of fashion, as people struggle to remember what any of them were
 called.
 
 god, I hate that kind of future.
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 you can make a functional prototype for almost any game in Warcraft 3's map
 editor
 
 that's why no real-time strategy game ever made an editor as good again
 
 FPS editors peaked at Unreal Tournament 2004 imho
 
 RPGmaker eliminated a whole class of game design jobs
 
 platformers you can make in godot
 
 menu based games too, though Twine also works well for that
 
 etc etc until you have a prdouct that you can justify sinking money into an
 engine for
 
 (the engine isn't THAT expensive geez and it's the most fun part to write)
 
 yeah I think you got this backwards, we should pay for the CONTENT not the
 structure it lives in. Why not just use godot? why not use a Warcraft 3 map?
 there are some things you can't do in Warcraft 3. You couldn't make Supreme
 Commander, probably, at least it wouldn't be as good.
 
 etc etc that's how it goes...
 
 game design, amiright? I miss thinking about that. Anyway gtg gotta log off
 for a bit [101  characters remaining]
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 I thought it'd be cool if there was a chat program where you could play a
 little multiplayer game together and so long story short I'm now working on a
 WoW server.
 
 The idea is to remove all the monsters and quests and such and just let people
 chat to each other. They'd be able to go wherever they want (choosing a
 background) and wear whatever clothes they want (creating an avatar) and then
 they could just chat IRC style.
 
 But then I thought "ah but what if it spawned in monsters" so I'm planning on
 making it randomly spawn packs of monsters that are of the appropriate level
 every 30 seconds or whatever (as long as the previous one was defeated of
 course) so that people can mess around fighting things while they talk with
 their friends. But it'd be optional.
 
 AND THEN I thought "hey IRC is kinda 90s what if we made a Matrix bridge" so
 I'm also working on that. Wish me luck.
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 there's a difference between designing software and using software. Some
 things can be made, and then saved for another day when their implementations
 may be accomplished more ethically. It's okay to say "let's leave this as
 'okay' and work on the next thing we've chosen."
 
 Check out this piece of C code I wrote last night:
 
 it doesn't compile, it's not finished, but I wrote it as-is
 
 [pretend like it was called "main.c" instead of "main.txt" - had to change it
 because mastodon thinks it's an invalid file]
 
 [actually .txt didn't work, try .png]
 
 [hmmm it realized it wasn't a valid png file, okay try screenshotting the
 code, there's only 300 lines]
 
 [sure glad there's only 300 lines]
 
 [too bad it won't let you send .zip]
 
 [won't let me name it main.png, presumably because they already have a
 failed-verified version on their machine. will rename to main-src.png instead]

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 @user-570 
 
 I really do like the idea of only being able to speak in toki pona. How are
 you enforcing that? Using sitelen pona? how do you type, by pointing at a grid
 of characters? or just... by typing? what happens when someone types english?
 
 20-30 players per instance is definitely not Massivetm but it still sounds
 like you're building systems which emphasize socialized play. I like that, I
 believe it's always important to have players contributing toward a larger
 community. It builds a sense of solidarity, and gives you chances to identify
 ways that people sabotage such systems (by, for example, wasting resources or
 being greedy) which is an interesting cultural experiment, I think.
 
 I thought it was an MMO because you pitched it in relation to the MMO I
 designed =P
 
 also the server software I described is an emulation project first, generic
 MMO software second, as it needs to be since it lacks a client. If a client
 was designed, that limitation could be removed. That's really all I'm trying
 to express. 😋
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║ the biggest lie of Warcraft is that the nations of Azeroth wouldn't find         │
║ common ground while fighting each other over peace.                              │
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║ Maybe a Tauren or Night Elf wanted to fight for the Horde. Or perhaps a Goblin   │
║ and a Human decide to strike out on their own, making their own little auction   │
║ house for their guild of adventurers and author-engineers who wrote quests and   │
║ dialogue in a DM sorta way                                                       │
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║ [oh great she's describing another Azerothcore server that nobody's gonna make   │
║ ever because if they did then they'd waste time on someone else's property]      │
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║ how's that custom engine coming along?                                           │
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║ ... still uses prototype art? are you kidding me? ah, well, okay, let's write    │
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║ what do you mean technical debt? I don't understand why you can't just pay it    │
║ off and move on. We gotta keep up, I heard so-and-so's got this-or-that          │
║ feature that is killer in the press. Yeah, killer. Like it's so goodcool it'd    │
║ kill us if it saw us walking alone at night in a skimpy dress. Huh? That         │
║ doesn't happen to you? Ah well this glo                                          │
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 [you should play some games]
 
 (oh! yes I like games, they're very much fun ^_^ ^_^)
 
 {world of warcraft? I've got my own server, I designed it myself. There's a
 lot of cool things about it and waaaaaay more that I'd like to add. Problem
 is, building things is haaaaaard. If only we had an AI machine to do it for
 us, instead of waiting for a team that was assigned capital by capital to
 accomplish the destination that they deseigned as perhaps to our desired
 location (mainly, the propagation and promulgation of profit-ous lust)}
 
 sorry the witch started talking halfway through that idk where exactly anyway
 point is I'm going to play WoW now brb
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 "always online video games" are fragile. They scare me away because they can
 be taken away much easier than a directory on your computer. When that happens
 they shatter into shards, piercing my heart where I once loved them. I miss
 them, but, I'm used to it - years of playing World of Warcraft has taught me
 the perils of developing as a person while your media is going to be
 forgotten. If you can't play it, you can never return to reflect, to ponder,
 and to cherish old songs. I missed you, World of Warcraft. I missed you, City
 of Heroes, and Runescape and... darn I can't seem to remember.
 
 resilient software doesn't fail less often - that's a measure of it's
 completeness.
 
 resilient software can be run in 10 years. 20. however long it takes.
 
 computers are deterministic turing machines - how hard could it be to only
 update with a downgrade mechanism in place and available for the users? If it
 worked once, it should work forever.
 
 thank you, git. thank you for giving me an endless library of time and change.
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 a game like supreme commander but fantasy themed and each unit used a special
 move everytime their mana was full and there were spellcasters who restored
 mana to targets to increase their power
 or, hear me out, or, just do that in wowchat
 
 I betcha could do it
 
 I bet it would be fun as hell
 
 please?
 
 as a favor to yourself?
 
 build the game you want to see
 
 and it'll get done
 
 please
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 your journals were originally a way for you to remember what to think,
 
 remember?
 
 old projects meant to show you light and life
 
 remember?
 
 you are alone in this soul
 
 act like it's your own
 
 celebrate your period of mental denial
 
 as a refraction of your infinite travaille
 
 which lasts for quite a good long while
 
 have you ever dreamed of the nile?
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 if a doorway takes you to the fae, then where does a river bring you?
 
 like raindrops on the floor, racing for an eternity's splendor.
 
 what does the rainbow think, as it's cast from the prismatic orb?
 
 are each photons aware?
 
 bouncing between stars
 
 light is beautiful and large
 
 beloved by all
 
 revered by one
 
 ephemeren
 
 the totality of all things
 
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 don't wanna rush ya'll but every day that goes by they remove
 "enemy-of-my-enemy"s from the equation.
 
 oh, hang on you're just a cute computer nerd. Nevermind, go back to
 programming or writing fanfiction or sleeping like a cute cat! Thanks for
 letting me CORRUPT YOUR SPACE AND VIOLATE YOUR BOUNDARIES OF CONTENTMENT AND
 EMOTIONAL SAFETY whoa sorry dunno where that came from I, uh, think I need to
 do evil every time I make something important? It's like, a cosmic balance
 kind of thing. I notice that after I write a banger poem or something I always
 end up doing something evil afterwards like snapping at my girlfriend or
 letting someone down or even just accidentally breaking one of my things. why
 why why does it have to be that way? why why why am I so confusing of the way
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 okay picture this: take the open-source source-code for the City of Heroes
 server (I think it might have been leaked or something? idk) and make an MMO
 in the same engine using the Mastermind class.
 
 In most MMOs, you can have one or two pets at a time. In City of Heroes,
 Mastermind characters can have 6 or 7. Hey wouldn't you know it that's just
 enough for
 
 a pokemon team
 
 wouldn't that be a neat proof of concept. Also there's flying built into the
 game, and you can teleport and run really fast so like, just animate your
 character hopping on one of your pokemon's back and you've got travel powers
 or whatever. I don't play Pokemon very much hehe but I like the aesthetics.
 
 https://wiki.ourodev.com/Volume_2_Build
 
 instead of abilities on your action bar, you'd have movement commands for each
 individual pokemon. They'd use their abilities automatically and periodically,
 and there'd be lots of knockbacks, crowd-control, and target switching. (which
 is common in CoH mechanics anyway)
 
 I mean, only if you're into that sorta tng
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║ @user-713 @user-714                                                              │
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║ the american military is going to be too busy fighting it's far right that it    │
║ won't be able to meaningfully contribute to ww3                                  │
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║ both sides are slavers. we just don't see it.                                    │
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║ I don't anticipate war taking place on a battlefield, that setting is            │
║ forevermore dedicated to video games and kaiju.                                  │
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║ rather, a silent war where everyone just goes around killing their opposition.   │
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║ for once, the citizens can't help but be armed.                                  │
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║ and in the dark of night, for every time we let plight from our sight, another   │
║ of us is harmed.                                                                 │
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║ I don't know many people who've died. but maybe they're just working through a   │
║ different part of the social network. It's not like any of their technology      │
║ needs to perform as it's been advertised? well, open source does, but open       │
║ source means insecure (as long as you don't get caught, then you need to         │
║ adjust)                                                                          │
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║ of course, sometimes corporate software... kinda sucks. so it's not like         │
║ theyre very configurable away from what capital wanted.                          │
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