"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote:
>
> uMMM... half in jest. When your authors come on
> board and have to sustain the effort, it is good to
> be able to provide rewards beyond egoboo.
>
> Consider a system where a section of the database,
> particularly the one that affects the environment, is
> a password protected section. Special WorldWizards
> are enabled to change the parameters there for
> world setups. Then, users can
> register the avatars and engage the setups much
> like training sims. The nice bit is that the WWs can
> be personalities, clouds, buildings, worms beneath
> the sidewalk as long as when in character, they
> stay in character, or just demigods who change
> the database and sit back and watch Xena rescue
> Gabrielle one more time.
>
> Such worlds can be operated for fun
> and profit, eg, maintaining training worlds for
> corporations. We have this local joke about Emergency
> Dispatch - The Game where we use real time
> public safety data to drive a game but ... nah!
>
> This is the sort of thing Blaxxun can
> do well I suspect. To get something that complex
> going and sustained, special talents are needed
> and then money matters. Sonstein must be having a
> good time by now.
>
> Len Bullard
>
> Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
> Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 12:57 PM
> > To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
> > Cc: Jeff Sonstein; VNet Interest Mailing List
> > Subject: RE: Crit Response and Appreciation
> >
> > MUAHAHAHAHAH. Now that WAS funny =) Anyway, as you say this is a first
> > step, that's why its Open Source, to see it advanced, to grow. I think
> > that's why we're all here, or at least most of us. Again, thank you for
> > your comments, hopefully I'll get to meet you all sooner or later, that
> > would be grand (O-world, Web3D 2000 maybe ?)
> >
> >
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