Okay, I got two questions and an idea.
In fact, this should actually go into something Dwarf Fortress related, but that's at the end of this post.
1) How many here have used this (I figured out how it worked, finally....) and who think it's a decent. Thing. I kinda like it actually.
2) Has anyone heard of OpenSimulator (
www.opensimulator.org). Basically it's your own server of SL (obviously a smaller scale). Kinda like RPG "free shards".
And the idea:
I) Would it be a good idea to do some sort of community fort thingy in this? Remember that it's not a game. At all (some sort of gameplay can be coded tho. I think, not sure how much scripting the OpenSim supports). Like, making a 3D fortress. All it would take is someone with a decent computer and a permanent-ish computer hosting it. I would do it, but I just had to downgrade my bitrate for money reasons. I might be (mis)underestimating the actual cost of running it, I think there's a fair amount of texture downloading and stuff, but since there's no commercial side of it, some sort of pre-optimizing could be done, like not everybody loading tons of textures but instead using a few preset ones (with full permissions and all that bunk).
Like I said, it's just an idea. It could be a really bad one, so I'd like opinions. I'm sure someone will point that there's already some sort of alternative that's maybe more fun. Also, you can't exactly make underground stuff, but something that LOOKS underground could be done, like using terrain to make thin strips of mountains and covering it up with primitives, like a ceiling.
I think it would be a fun little project like a sandbox. If anyone's used one of those LEGO-whatever online builder thingies, it's not too different, but more flexible. And without jerks that like to demolish other people's creations, which is freakin'
hilariourude.
TL;DR: Let's make a Second Life dwarf fortress! Or more to the point, a private server SL-clone dwarf fortress! Weee!