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Jun 11, 2006, 3:54pm

Whereas the idea of having zones that behave differently than the rest of
the world is appealing, I was expecting them to have more features.

There should be alot more features to make the zones complete, SOME of them
could include:

Allowing a different Home Page URL (enabled or disabled by the CT) - This
could be useful for markets where you would like the home page of the
merchant to not accidentally over ride the home page of their neighbor.

A rating system - This could allow worlds to have multiple areas of varying
ratings so that adults can have a place to themselves without making the
entire world off limits to under age kids. This, of course, would not work
unless the zone feature were server side rather than client side because of
the visibility limitation.

Seperate rights - This feature would have to useable by only a CT or their
bots/priv holders. It would be useful for quests where entering a certain
area would be dependant upon the person completing a prerequisite first.
Or, it could be used for seperating a part of the world off for private
development meetings.

Ability to change the sky/backdrop/etc. - This feature would be great for
fantasy worlds where they have different dimensions and such, like stepping
into a portal, but not having to leave the world.

Ground ambience/diffuse - It kind of defeats the purpose if you can make a
zone pitch black and block world light, but not be able to have a realistic
ambience from light sources within the zone.

Of course, some of these features could be simulated by a bot, but some
world owners are bot illiterate and don't have access to a bot programmer
willing to set up their world for such features.

Jun 11, 2006, 5:19pm

Whew! Those were some awesome ideas which I think would be great to
implement.

If such features were added to zones, I suspect that world size would
increase and a more collective nature of society would evolve... as worlds
would not be owned by 1, but possibly groups/guilds. ... and that the
overall number of worlds in the list would decrease. This would not be a bad
thing at all. Fewer worlds means more activity in the ones there are as the
density of the population is changed. But at the same time it does not
preclude someone from buying their own seperate world.

Jun 18, 2006, 1:52pm

Just a note i wanted the skybox thing too but..i really thought about it and
how would that work really?

Jun 19, 2006, 3:07am

Prolly by downloading the zone skybox, but not applying it yet, as soon as
the zone comes within range of the user, then switching from the world
skybox to the zone skybox once the zone is entered and then switching back
once the zone is exited.

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