[Discuss] South Islands

[Andrew Asche]

I like the idea, sounds fun.  Make sure regular people are being let
in, not just GMs or Beta Testers or whatever they're called these
days, so that everyone knows whats going on is legit.

I say we call it "Sandbox of Tom"  (Like the game SoG.  Only replace
"God" with "Tom".)  =D

On 2/19/08, John P. Murphy <john.p.murphy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> With the south islands no longer in use, I wonder if it would be
> possible to set one up as an experimental island to try out some of
> these tactics that keep getting discussed, and maybe some of the more
> radical code change ideas that have been tossed around.  I'm thinking
> it would basically be a sandbox: disable emmigration and transferring
> gold, and give every character on the island 1000 gold a week (or 20
> if that's what you want to test).  Reset it every month or so,
> changing the rules a bit each time to test something new.  That way
> when you introduce large changes to the testing islands you'll have a
> lot of the bugs already worked out, and you can point to the testing
> and say, "Look, it works and it looks like it will be good for the
> game, so stop whining that it'll make it impossible to play under
> these conditions."
>
> (If you like the idea, I further propose naming the island Valhalla ;)
>
> John
>
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