Hi! I posted this to the message board too but I figured I should post it here too just in case..so here goes: Hi, I ran this idea by #FreeSCI on OPN and received positive feedback so I'm throwing this out to everyone and seeing what they think! I recently was looking for a suitable graphical multiuser RPG that was opensourced (I wanted to host my own server) for my soon-to-be-up Quest For Glory fan page (http://www.qfg.org, it's just a cover page right now) I looked through Freshmeat and Sourceforge and couldn't find a suitable one that was anywhere near completion. Then it hit me. Why couldn't FreeSCI itself be expanded to accomodate a multiplayer experience? I was assured that it wouldn't totally break the format to accomodate this and it would seem to me that it would be an extremely beneficial thing to do for everyone, not just Sierra fans. I really like the idea of MUD-style interaction via a text interface. Those were the best of the Quest series in my opinion anyway! Older players who played these games as well as MUDders would be drawn to it by nostalgia, if nothing else. People who don't have state of the art hardware or just plain don't like Ultima Online and Everquest styled games would be drawn to it because of the low hardware requirements. Others would be drawn to it as a chat community. I have noticed a lack of good graphical chat systems lately, barring Project Elysium which seems to show a lot of promise. My understanding of this would be that the world can be controlled almost completely by the world designer, since SCI was used to make standalone games originally. Before anybody says anything, I don't believe cheating would be much of an issue as we could double check input from the client to the server. In any case, my point is that it would appeal to a lot more people than you think. Now, I will be the first person to admit that I know nothing about this area, but I would be interested in helping organize such an effort and I would do whatever I could to help. Please let me know if anyone is interested in this! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
