Aside from the discrepancy between CrystalSpace and the ability to emote, which I've described in
one or two other posts, I also think that it seriously needs expansion. And not to the extent that it becomes emptier than it already is. We don't need to visit the entire 7th level or the road down to it from The Dome, but we should be able to see a Nolthrir village or two.
Of course, you don't want to make only enough of a village to seem unfinished, because that would worsen the environment. Is that part of the reason why you can't travel to the other levels? Making inaccessible landscape so as to convey sense of vast distance is easier than making a village look convincingly genuine. Granted, having a long road that you can't leave does make Yliakum seem small and fakey from an adventuring standpoint.
And what of the DR?
In some
other thread of mine, I was polling for interest in an expedition into the DR. Gedundk was orphaned at birth, and kra is developing some interest in searching the DR for kras gemmor (parent). There didn't even need to be very much down there: it is dark. All I'd need is a way to attach a rope ladder, climb down, and space in which to wander. I could imagine everything else.
However, if Gedundk can't get down there, then what's the point of even being in-game at all? Standing around in the DR with a useless avatar is worse for role-play than me writing a communal story literally.
Leastways, those are my thoughts on that matter.
Really, I think there should be some corruption and scandal in the Octarchy. Doesn't need to be a major conflagration; all it needs is to be enough so as to give fuel to a dissentive movement.
Surely there are enough non-GMs in offices so as to make that interesting?
