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Re: Castle Builder's Guild
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:47:39 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Saskia van Doesburg wrote:
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You could even make a Isle-of-mist type of thing - section at the site. But
maybe that’s a thing I shouldn’t speak of in this discussion. Combine
info/gallery/gaming whatever you can think of, as long as it’s lego castle.
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You should take this discussion in any direction you like, there are no rules.
As it stands, I was just now realizing (again!) that I have yet to finish the CW
Isle of Mist archive. In my case I’m just cleaning up the html code left for me
by others. No big. But it is the last thing needed to complete the existing
archive.
My problem with The Isle of Mist is that it takes an enormous amount of time,
effort, and creativity to make something like The Isle of Mist work. It is a sad
reality that even when you come up with something great there are people that
will criticize your efforts and somehow feel cheated themselves if you don’t
just do everything their way. A lot of people only know how to make themselves
happy, not build something sustainable in which others can participate. CW was
a unique idea, and IIRC many wanted it immediately become some kind of “gaming”
tool, even using traditional map making methods and etc. That’s not what the
guys behind The Isle of Mist were doing, they wanted something different. I
wouldn’t want someone to come up with an idea like The Isle of Mists only to
disappoint the community again. I think we gained and also lost a lot of
momentum with The Isle Of Mists.
BUT, that doesn’t mean something like The Isle of Mist couldn’t be tried again,
I am just trying to frame the discussion in terms of the historical fallout.
BTW, CW is available to any deeply responsible person wanting to host it and
love it. While I had much of the necessary energy to try and help archive the
existing state of CW, I had little energy to add to the archive with new
entries. The main thing would be that anyone taking it over would have to have
history here that would satisfy ME. If someone took it over just to make silly
changes or in any way debase the work of CW’s originators and original
contributors I would just put the archive back up as it is now. All it takes is
FTP and a good connection -- which I have! The current site is maintained by me
at Ozbricks which comes with 50 MB of space and an email account for an admin.
CW currently occupies a mere 5 MB or less of space, but I also had it in mind
that the site should host all the images contained on it’s pages -- and I still
need to go through and kill dead links and such. I could conceivably wrap up the
archive work so that we at least have two copies of CW as it was, one online and
another burned to CD or something.
Anyway, it would be wrong of me to hold back CW if there’s someone out there
willing to move it forward. I just wanted it on the table that I would not hold
back the possibility of CW helping to further unite or reunite the castle
community again. It could even become a section of a future Castle site along
the lines of ILTCO. It could also forever remain an archive with people merely
linking to it, whatever...
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) Hey Hop-Frog, If you're looking for someone to pick up the reigns of Castle World, I'll be happy to take up the yolk of responsibility for it. I'm jobless right now, so I've got a lot of time on my hands, as well as a very dedicated and (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| "Jason Spears" schreef in bericht news:HJI91I.IyA@lugnet.com... (...) It's the way you categorize that is important, you don't need 12 categories to run a forum. I agree, never use a bravenet forum. It's the style of forum that I like, not (...) (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.castle)
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