Archive:Community Nexus

Revision as of 18:02, 15 March 2011 by Nathan2055 (Talk | contribs) (A major update as the project moves forward...)

At the forum options are being discussed to create a new Nexus for Fan Ages (called "Writer's Nexus", "Community Nexus", or "Restoration Nexus", shortened to "WNexus").

Realizations

There seem to be differing opinions on how the end result should be:

  • The most popular idea is to move all Fan Ages to the new Nexus and leaving all D'ni Locations in an updated Cyan's Nexus.
  • Another idea is replacing the GUI in Cyan's existing Nexus, however this may not be accepted by Cyan.
  • The final idea is moving all fan content to the new Nexus.
    • Another proposal was that players would find the new Nexus in their Personal Links after obtaining the KI. If this is accepted, a Nexus book will be added behind the link in point.

Age Appearence

The Age will mostly be a GoW themed Nexus. Carl has created some [Floor Textures for the Community Nexus|beta floor textures. There will be two imagers, one with user content, another with admin content. There may also be a blackboard with Age list updates.

GUI

We will mostly use Tweek's proposed GUI.

Due to the mass of fan-ages, the Nexus needs support for categorization or tags. Over at the Age Categories list, Egon and Nathan2055 have proposed categories to sort the Ages under. The GUI needs to be able to deal with a dynamic set of categories (it's unrealistic to edit it each time we add a category). Chloe posted some drafts in the thread, and kaelis made suggestions for a Nexus pedestal for a custom Nexus (to make it clear where a link should be registered).

Some decision needs to be made about whether and how to distinguish links showing up automatically from those collected later, and in which category they show up.

Python scripting

Nobody was opposed to using the Offline KI xLinkMgr as backend for the displayed information. The data it has available needs to be extended to support age categories, which should not be hard. Fan-ages also need to be able to be hidden in Nexus at the start (easy) and to be registered later on by a Nexus terminal, to collect the reward. A player's collected fan-ages could easily be saved in a chronicle (age name and link-in point for each collected link). With the current design, each age can only have one link showing up automatically in Nexus (the default link-in point). It is also not possible to set per link-in point tags/categories.

Helping out

At this stage, you can help with this project by posting at the forum thread.