[vworld-tech] Ultimate MMO Platform

Megan Fox shalinor at circustent.us
Sun Apr 4 11:24:42 PDT 2004


Apologies for the noise spike - it should probably just die off, as this
sort of discussion is going to involve primarily high-level theory.

-Megan Fox

> Megan and Crosbie,
>
> Could this thread start going somewhere that covers something technical
> (and therefore on-topic) or be allowed to die off soon?
>
> Thanks,
>
>   - Bruce
>
> Crosbie Fitch wrote:
> >> From: Megan Fox Bad assumption - who's to say designing for
> >> commercial viability will cost anything extra, or take any extra
> >> time?  You need securities whether it's commercial or
> >> non-commercial, and you need those securities to be user-scalable.
> >> You would also want single-system viability for non-commercial, to
> >> provide for those users that just want their private little
> >> cyberspace to dick around with.
> >>
> >> So where's the rub?
> >
> > Imposing a requirement for 'user-scalable securities' on the design
> > from day one is like imposing a requirement for royalty collection on
> > the design of a file sharing system.
> >
> > While you're bashing your head against a brick wall, someone else
> > ignores the brick wall, routes around it and just flipping does it.
> >
> > Save the brick wall for a rainy day (or PhD students in need of a
> > thesis).
>



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