A Pony World?

[CandyRush 75]

I've been thinking for a little while if we could have a forum virtual world. We could have like a pony maker and we can play games, earn items, do rps, and more. Maybe one of the mods or Feld0 know someone who can make a virtual world. And if you do make a virtual world, give me at least 7% of the credit.

[Neikos 968]

Original Idea, do not steal plz!

 

 

But in all seriousness, it doesn't sound like you even know what would be going on, how can you claim credit for that?

Perhaps explain a bit more?

[SCS 7,537]

This sounds like it would be a lot of fun. However... I personally wouldn't want to risk it. MLP Online was shut down due to legal difficulties because they had an MLP game. If we made a game, we could possibly be shut down too. If this were not a possibility, I would wholeheartedly support this suggestion, but since it is, I'm sorry, but I have to strongly oppose it. 

[Limey 524]

That sounds really complicated. Personally, I'm fine with the forums the way they are.

[Betez 1,734]

It does sound fun, but would it really be worth all the work?

 

And why a random number like 7%?

Edited February 23, 2013 by Betez

[NavelColt 22,880]

That sounds really complicated. Personally, I'm fine with the forums the way they are.

 

Yeah. This idea sounds overly-complicated, and like a shitton of work that our techies don't really have the time for, honestly. Unless we had a bunch of coders avaliable who could work on it, I'd be for just finding other games like this idea elsewhere in the fandom and making topics about them, because it's one thing to say 'this would be cool to have', and an entirely different thing to make that thing a reality that's worth having.

[Wubsie 1,123]

I thought of this and it sounds complicated as fuck.

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure this would take years...and years to do. Although it's a great idea it seems like too much.

[Twilight Sparkle ✨ 8,526]

Although I am relatively confident in our software development capabilities, creating an entire virtual pony world would be an absolutely massive undertaking in a time when we're already working on no less than three large-scale pony community projects.

 

While I can see a few ways such a world could fit into our future plans, it would require extensive research and planning to even properly consider, and a very time-consuming commitment to actually build.

 

If I hear some compelling arguments for why MLP Forums needs a virtual world, and some concrete, fleshed-out ideas for how it could work, I'll be happy to reconsider. Please understand the scope of what you are asking for, and tell us how and why it will be worth it if you want it to happen.

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

Making this the way you explained it would be really complicated. I think it would be far simpler to create a "virtual world" roleplay in Roleplay World in which, instead of a bunch of OCs in some kind of set story, it would be everyone's ponysonas in a similar setting to the game I think you imagine. Then things would be handled largely by our imaginations, rather than putting the forums' entire tech team on a rather unnecessary task and risking legal  trouble. There wouldn't be minigames, but there are tons of fanmade games out there to play anyway

 

I'm kind of assuming you wanted to make a "club penguin/ World of Warcraft" type game, or a general RPG at least, but if I'm totally wrong, please correct me.