Cherek wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020 07:23
I realize it's easy for mortals to believe (understandbly so) that anyone with wizard status on the forums also has full access to the wizard world, but that isn't always the case.
Maybe in the first year or so, I did believe that was the case. However, I soon saw Genesis to probably be the most change-resistant thing I've seen in my life (and I've seen rocks and shit, you know, it's impressive).
I started to wonder why, and my assumptions are that utter indecision and rigidness are due to
* extremely serious codebase issues - ones that would warrant a Genesis 2 in a new framework possibly - we can go raid
https://discord.gg/x6YywQDx together for answers if you guys want - if that's the case I absolutely pledge my 8 hours a day (I need to work and sleep so just those 8) for researching this together if you want - no strings attached
* a sort of legal commitment or, put in a funnier way, some blood ritual that Lars somehow forces every wizard to undertake in order to bind them to his views on how the game should always be in some areas - if there isn't an nda on even disclosing it please do share, at the very least it would be hilarious
* missing the workforce (the last bastion of defence - Wiz it yourself) despite having some absolutely awesome wizards around that come and go and the uber contradictive fact that there are no posts saying Genesis needs Wizards all around the /r/MUD subreddit, facebook, the website, everywhere
* only a handful of people, extremely set in their ways and utterly irreplaceable/irremovable (I magically reminded myself of Irk, hoho), having the priviledge of impacting actual decisions and declining other wizards from participating in the process - I could see that maybe but is it that sad really? Maybe it's quicker to get racial rework in Gen 2 if we build it from the ground up?
* wizards (those that actually wiz it) actually do not have and generally never get access to fixing the real problems cause they have to work through other projects for at least X years before they reach that trusted stage - practically leaving the same group of people do core work - maybe just ... not take wizards if you can't have and cannot develop a process to enabling you trusting them enough for full access to solving issues and reworking stuff?
Edit: I'm quite resigned from the idea that something happens when somebody posts about something but maybe I should move this into a new post instead of replying. Oh well.