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[Moonshadowe]

So I have a dev question, and I might just be embarking on a journey of wishful thinking here, but I was wondering. You have the IoD situation, to recreate or not. Could it be a raid zone etc. What if you could make the zone an instance with a selection of which instance you want to go to. Newbie IoD or for a certain type of raid. Maybe you could make multiple raids on the same real estate? Is this possible and next question, would you want to? Just thinking on solutions since space is limited. EQ ended up doing this kind of thing to make it easier for multiple guilds fighting over the same hunting grounds, like Plane of Time.

[Kandra]

We have talked about it, not for IoD specifically, but to conclude that there's really no lack of space at all since we can take any zone we want, eg. Ahgram, and make an alternate reality from it if we want to.

[Ratief]

That is basically what they did for APW. There are 6 of so chunks that are exact copies of each other. Personally I would prefer to revert that change and put APW back into the swamp (with only one copy of it). I think all of the stuff is still there, we would just need to change the door back to one that opens with a key.

While I would love for this to be a problem, I just don't think that it will be. Emulators don't usually get that many players. Also, I think that it would be much better if we can figure out how to modify the game files ourselves and create completely new areas when we need them. I don't think that will be needed for a very long time though. There are many empty places left in Telon to fill first.

Edit: I was wrong, it does look like they pulled the assests out of the swamp for APW. So until/unless we get the ability to modify the game files we are stuck with the current porting to APW.

[Jakkal]

If we can figure out how to modify and add in assets, I can totally make textures and 3d art for it. I'd really love to try to make some new armor and weapons.

[Ratief]

I would love for that to happen... Maybe in a year or two we will be at that point! I've read a couple of threads that hint that someone has made a bit of progress with peeking into the vgr files, but I don't think they ever posted any details.

[Moonshadowe]

Thats great. I was under the assumption there wouldnt be too much modification going on and that included adding in things that didn't already exist. That being said I would love to see some new armor and weapons in the game. Even if it does take years to implement would be neat to see. Makes me want to dig out my sketchbook and make up some designs.