It seems like there have also been less DBZ games on the HUB. There used to be about 10 on at any given time but now there seem to be only a few. Or maybe I've just been ignoring them...

On top of that, I've noticed that there are fewer posts on the forum recently. And most of the ones I do see are simply mindless chatter, nothing constructive.

What do you need money for?

It's the week, all the DBZ makers have school work to be doin and don't have time to host DBZ games maybe. :P


Little sally

Foomer wrote:

And most of the ones I do see are simply mindless
chatter, nothing constructive.

Of course that does not apply to your chatter in the forums at digitalBYOND, right Foomer? :p (just teasing) :)

(actually I should not be so mean, because Foomer is the *only* active forum contributor in the digitalBYOND forums at the moment...)

Foomer wrote:

But honestly, it almost feels like BYOND is dying out.

I hope not, not now that we've finally got a stable version! At any rate, I wouldn't worry so much .. we go through these lulls now and then. Dan and I are hard at work on some final things and are starting to make contacts that will hopefully help us get some funding and expand BYOND further. We will be advertising (and encouraging others to also do so) very shortly. In the meantime, I've seen a number of fine games (ie- Bombard, Medieval Conquest, Birdland, Echelon, etc) that aren't in the Live! listing as often as they deserve. I know that everytime I get around to playing one of these types of games (Bunniflip is a personal favorite) I and others have a blast, so I think its just a matter of letting people know.

I think it's just the opposite--BYOND's entered its awkward adolescent phase and is just starting to adjust. A major feature expansion phase just ended. There's so many great games that have cropped up recently that it seems a veritable glut, and some of the stuff people have in the pipeline boggles the mind. The main problem (as I see it; MMORPG fans are likely to see it differently) is that there doesn't seem to be much in terms of server resources to go around.

I think if anyone is disappearing, it's the unwanted crowd. The quality (and variety) of newly released games definitely seems to be improving.

Maybe the fact that everyone wants money for their services now (even mapmakers, apparently) is getting rid of the "unquality" people who just want to add to the junk heap, while all the "quality" designers stick around because they usually have the skills to do it on their own :o)

Maybe the fact that everyone wants money for their services now (even mapmakers, apparently)

What's odd about that? The bulk of the work involved in building a massive online world, as I see it, is building the world itself. I've never seen a MUD of any substantial size (say, thousands of non-stock rooms) that didn't have 5-20 times as many builders as they did coders. And that's (generally) including strict divisions there--i.e., by "builders", I mean people who just write descriptions and plug in numbers, with no codework involved. The ones with more extreme ratios tend not to be very good MUDs, sure (the worlds always end up being very bland, since the few coders cannot write interesting specials for so many zones, or very buggy, since the few coders only have time to whip up the first vaguely working special they can manage before they need to go work on another zone), but then neither are most of the MUDs that don't have such a ratio (generally affairs where 1-3 people are attempting to run the entire thing without any other admin staff). One of the things that's stopped me from getting too far on any MUD-type project is that very fact.