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« on: November 24, 2005, 02:11:14 am »
instead of having the just devs develope all the buildings, allow anyone who has the ability to write c++ design the buildings, and then submit them to the devs for appruval(ie. make sure theres no bugs).
then allow the player to sell the designs/blueprints in the game so people or guilds can then build them. this then allow for architect guilds to start which could make things realy intesting. a guild could hire a architect guild to design them a castle, shop, pub, workshop or appartments.
this whole idea would work really well if the devs released some sort of simple editor for designing buildings, like the editors that are avalable with other games doom, morrowind ect. but this is probably asking allot.
to address the issue of server space, all the data for the interior of the building could be stored locally on the clients pc as the data will only be needed when the player is at home and just prevent anyone from entering the room/building when there not there. there would probable be a few issues with this model for buildings owned by guilds if something in the interior changed, all the other members data would also have to updated. overall this would hugly cut down the amont of space required.