16 réponses à ce sujet

[christinetooley]

OK, so heres the scoop. For the last two years+ I've been working on a PW based on the works of Robert E Howards world of sword and sorcery. Conan and the lands of Hyboria.
  I've mapped out and built almost all of the countries overland map areas, each of those countries' cities, towns, villages, caves, ect. Each of those towns shops, temples, castles, dungeons, grind areas, harbors including a massive array of NPCs for those areas. (A total of going on 300 areas so far) All made with ALOT of placeable HAKs. The players handbook boasts 30 playable races based on the world of Hyboria including Aesir, Black Islanders, Chaga, Ghanta, Himelian, Hyborian, Hyrkanian, Argossean, Bossonian, Darfari, Cimmerian, hell, most of the races mentioned in Howards works and each with their own special attributes, abilities, ect. Some custom classes and PRC. A new leveling process which requires learning skills from more experienced NPCs (often at a cost), a mana based magic system, an advanced Craftable Natural Resources which includes Heeds fishing and HCR2, lots of new items, weapons, poison system, almost everything I could download from the vault and alot of it modified to fit better and/or work with eachother for realism. PnP coins and stores for use of Copper Pieces, electrum, ect...Multiple clothing hacks for more randomness and random dynamic NPCs in towns and villages for a more real life feel. The areas are pretty well done, most of them are custom made but I've imported areas off of the vault as well.
    So heres where YOU come in. I would very much like this world to become a reality, and doing so by the release of the new Conan the Barabrian movie would be a nice plus, but I dont have the know-how or frankly the bandwith to run a dedicated 24/7 PW server. So what I propose is to hand over the finished product to whomever is willing to turn this dream into a reality, running this from their server and ISP. What is the dream? A Roleplay/Action PW that is only limited by the players imagination. No heavy rules, no DMs with power trips, just fun for all who wish to immerse themselves in the wolrd Howard dreamt up. I would like credit to go to everyone in the community that has provided so much of the work done on it, the HAKs, ERFs, Areas, ect. And would very much like to be able to DM in it as I love to involve players in more than just grinding. But you can call it ALL YOURS. Thats my proposal. Its all yours if you can run it. I hope someone with more tech knowledge (and money) wishes to see Hyboria come to life in a non Pay-to-play environment. Cheers! 
Suggestions are def welcome!

[christinetooley]

Or maybe this kind of thing doesn't happen in the nwn community? Getting my hopes up in vain? Haha

[kevL]

it strikes me as unlikely, but the sentiment is def. understandable n'preciated in itself

I know i'm drawn to it, and i have no realistic motivation to run a server. Here's an idea: package it up and chuck it to the Vault as a world-in-waiting .. with just such a (excellent) write-up as above.


( back in NwN i downloaded Nordock and played in it SP, & i can see myself or someone like me putting many enjoyable hours into running around, getting a gist of it and breathing life into it

I don't know enough about Hyboria to do justice, but sounds like a scripter's dreamland )

[kamal_]

Yup, put it on the Vault.

[christinetooley]

Well if I quest it up a bit I guess it could be a SP mod (a huge SP mod) or someone could use it in campaign....still hoping someone has a lonely server and a god complex. Haha

[kamal_]

You dont have to quest it up. There are some PWs available to download and play on the Vault already. And putting it there might entice someone to run it as a PW. If nothing else people will be able to take advantage of things you've done and get premade dungeons and such.

[MasterChanger]

Not to discourage you from putting it up on the Vault as others have suggested, but there's really another option. The majority of PWs are developed and run by teams rather than individuals. There are just too many skills and too much work for most people to handle by themselves. I don't know if you've already tried putting a team together, but you might be able to get together with a technical person who could handle hosting, scripting, and other aspects while you handle content and community aspects.

Just to throw that out there.

[painofdungeoneternal]

The vault is where it should go, that is if you really want to see it in use.

You get the skills needed from running a PW, and building one, and most who have the skills have already done their own, usually with it run AS a PW the entire time which affects the area design, scripting and all the other things you've already done.

Eventually someone will see it on the vault and try to be a "PW Admin", which is your intention, but the odds are that person is not going to be browsing this forum anytime soon, most who are reading this forum now are actually dedicated players or they are PW admins already. Now if you send a message out to the podcast, that might get what you are offering some traction.

Regardless it's better on the vault where it's shared, and no one can claim your work as their own or try to restrict it in any way. Ideally someone else takes it on as their project and builds upon your provided foundation. ( those who we see as giants stand on the shoulders of the giants who have come before )

That mana stuff i'd like to look at myself as it's something i've not gotten to yet for example.

[christinetooley]

Podcast???

[painofdungeoneternal]

http://www.nwnpodcast.com/

[christinetooley]

Well, I still got some work to do on it so it may be a month or so but maybe I will put it on the vault. Or maybe I'll get lucky and figure out a way to make it work on my own. Fingers still crossed for help.

[ruadhri10]

Hey christinetooley, how did you go with finding a server?

[christinetooley]

I've actually been working more on the mod lately than looking for a host. Trying to get more placeables to work. Would like to get the master placeables 2da from Wikipedia to actually show in toolset. Hella time! Lol. Someone needs to post a mod template for that!

[Eldron Draco]

I can provide a server and bandwidth with some remote access-permissions. If someone is interested, send me a pm. I share a lot of christinetooley sentiments and would like to help if I can.

[christinetooley]

Ok. Might have a gracious volenteer for server. Now have to figure out all of the database server side stuff. Not to mention finishing PW mod itself. Been playing too much BGTSCC and not building...

[Torcherd]

I'm brand new to NWN2 as of today and was browsing through the forums when I came across this thread.  Your description of this PW sounds awesome! 

[NWN DM]

Any links to screenshots or the like?