Yes, if you do decide to start up an open-source (or even closed for that matter) MMORPG, keep us informed on it. Professional teams of already-do-this-for-a-living programmers take 18-24 months to develop games, and that is doing 40-50+ hrs/week and getting paid. It will be no small task and something you'll need a few friends along for the ride.
Ammaross Danan www.rotf.net > -----Original Message----- > I do, however, think it would be an awesome idea to develop a > freeware, open-source MMORPG and get it out there... It would > definitely bring in more challenges for the coders, writing > clients to handle a lot of the processing and take the load > off of the servers, but it could be designed with all kinds > of modern-day principles in mind, such as database usage, > perhaps server load balancing and multithreading, and > compression techniques to keep bandwidth usage at a > minimum... Keep us posted if you do decide to do something > along those lines :D
