I agree on that. It also helps avoiding contradictions. But sets of rules should apply to the whole game instead of just one part of it.

Even with a survey, there will be debates (not including the original one). People will want to express their opinion if major changes are concerns. It's not simply asking if one wants to see item X in age Y. It's asking about stuff that affect every players in a shard. What needs more attention in ...

The stranger wrote:For example, the minkata puzzle could have been done in a much more *detailed* way which respected the nature of the world, rather than "hey, look, a portal".

That was the problem of the pods.

Lack of details and you want to give them even less details?

I don't think that yeesha-magic and bahro-magic were the most annoying things.

Uru, with its sharding format, will require the ability to change the startup for individual needs. The best solution would be the ability to have most of the suggestions here possible (barring Cyan shooting down specific points), but I don't expect that to be a reality. However, it should be a hec...

The canon is not the problem. Lack of many things is the problem. Why reading a DRC monolog where if you crash you can't go back while you could simply read the logs on a forum? They compared the episodes to be like thoses on TV and that's what they were. You look but you're not involved. Only one w...

People don't ask for explanations of everything.

No unless you don't care about other seeing it as a poorly designed story.

Than don't consider my idea executable. Still, until we get a "never come up with an idea which brakes the realistic rules" I gonna post it, you may ignore them if you feel like. I would call them continuity rules. No. And you should really stop with the mocky-style posts. I just wanted to know if ...

Please point me to the rule saying that. Official rules are not yet available. But they will probably be similar to the Guidelines for Official Story/Age Creation . Your idea currently breaks rule #3. Many ideas here also break it but not as much as yours. Anyway, my idea doesn't mess too much with...