The whole recording could also be modified so that the two parts are merged into one and the book becomes available at the end like the journey cloth in the first recording. In ABM, when you use the book (working hologram book :roll: ) you link to the rainy cleft where you meet the real Yeesha who ...

There's a limit at being too slow. If the player never touch the book, will it stay open forever? In Myst, Atrus endlessly waits for the page but in Riven, Gehn doesn't stay still with the book in front of you until you use it. Same thing with Myst III, Myst IV and Uru. There should be a time limit...

Myst is prerecorded if you look at it as a game. But from an in-game perspective, there's no prerecording at all (when dealing with characters). When Atrus asks you for the white page, OOC it loops until you click on his hand with the page. IC, he waits for the page because he's there. Not an holog...

Pre-recorded things can easily be made interactive. Myst (and all the following games in the series), for example, was entirely pre-recorded. It works OOC but not IC. Huh? What I was trying to say was that Myst is entirely prerecorded, yet is also interactive. Therefore, such things are easily poss...

Why, exactly? Is it impossible to have the hologram react (in such a minor way) to the explorer's actions? I think the hologram technology is a lot more advanced than that needed to recognize when a person links. because an hologram is a pre-recorded message. True. That doesn't mean it can't have s...

Hmm, I see a few solutions 1. Allow it. If people really want to bring that many people, they're kind of inviting lag. 2. Have Yeesha's hologram disappear or close the book after one person links through. 3. Have it disappear or close the book after a couple people go through. Have several spots th...

Ah, good catch. I think the bucket will work fine (while there's no way that our avatars can revert it, I'm sure it would be IC possible), the falling bridge would be somewhat odd. Well, is it more important to have everything in the place stay the way it logically would, or to let the player have ...

This explaination works for the windmill or anything that can be reverted. However, it doesn't work for the bucket or the falling bridge. Ah, good catch. I think the bucket will work fine (while there's no way that our avatars can revert it, I'm sure it would be IC possible), the falling bridge wou...

Yeah, I thought about walking out of a Minkata style sandstorm, or out of a building or bus but I struggled with "what happens if two or more people join at the same time?". There'd have to be forced animation for the walk; I don't think it could be a cut-scene since you're ending up in a populated...

There are a couple of problems I have with virtually all of these multi-player start scenarios: The first is the number of players. If you have a smallish shard, say 200 subscribers then, apart from when the shard first starts up, you're pretty unlikley to actually encounter another player who happ...