The realist/pessimist in me believes that this would never work; too ambitious, too ambiguous, too big, too many conflicting minds (all working for their own agenda rather than reined in by a paycheck)...
The optimist in believes that the boundless talent & wealth of already-existing resources, along with the combined anticipation & creativity of the hundreds of active users, could all be marshaled to create something cool.
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I have made it a goal to research & archive old dead projects; the fruits of which you can see in my signature. I will echo Purgeandfire in saying that one of the biggest issues with big total conversions & other mods like this is 'ambition'. Trying to do too much, or be too big. In particular, artistically doing too much; artists tend to be the least able to put out (at least as quickly as coders or just designers), can be fickle, and their work is the most argued-upon.
Another big part of this 'leadership'. Running a million polls & having years of argumentative debate & discussion simply won't cut it (as much as I love the latter xD) in order to get something done. Who do you think would be best suited to leadership, and in what capacities? Would you personally (and us globally) be willing to subjugate our goals & desires for this project, merely working on what was told?
(A sidestep to that issue, and a possible alternative is this: make the "big Hive project" be a big 'combination' of stuff. Consider that over the years, we have had oodles of modders making oodles of things; there are still some big 'holes' to fill, but we have, like, a dozen blood elf races, a buncha demons, lots of other races... Tons of tools, thousands of snippets/spells/systems... Bunches of terrains & playable maps, dozens of doodads & such... If we merely could decide on a set of "unifying principles", everyone could take their existing stuff and, with some modification, make it work to be directly inserted into the "mod as a whole". Creators of new stuff would just have to align with those principles & their stuff could be easily inserted as well.)
For my part, the Jungle Trolls will be done
soon whenever I can. : )
Murlocologist said:
I'm actually quite curious about this. What's all going on in that sector, modding-wise? What kind of things are going on? What sites does one frequent to find the most modding activity?
Murlocologist said:
...It's on staff to reform or not reform community....
Recent experience has taught me that this is not really the case. If we want reform we have to start discussing it ourselves & with the administration.
