It's going to happen. One of the many reasons I worship at the altar of Uru is that Cyan said, in no uncertain terms, "OK, once we're stable and finish migrating to the new physics engine and have our bugs worked out, we're going to release the build tools to the fans." The current target date is sometime about a year from launch, ie, January 2008.
People were already building fan-ages and putting them on the shard servers of Uru while Cyan was hunting up more funding to re-release the game, and we'd be doing it now, except they had to change physics engines. (Havok said they would not build a release for the Mac.)
Now that they've settled on an engine, the plan is to evaluate the Ages fans make and add between two and four a year, in addition to the Cyan-created content. (At least, that's the gist of it - the announcement was last July, and I'm too lazy to go look up the text again. ;)
Needless to say, I'm drooling. :) And trying to figure out whether or not my computer has sufficient wang to let me design one myself. I suspect alhandra and I could be downright fiendish about creating an Uru age...
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Date: 2007-01-03 03:43 pm (UTC)People were already building fan-ages and putting them on the shard servers of Uru while Cyan was hunting up more funding to re-release the game, and we'd be doing it now, except they had to change physics engines. (Havok said they would not build a release for the Mac.)
Now that they've settled on an engine, the plan is to evaluate the Ages fans make and add between two and four a year, in addition to the Cyan-created content. (At least, that's the gist of it - the announcement was last July, and I'm too lazy to go look up the text again. ;)
Needless to say, I'm drooling. :) And trying to figure out whether or not my computer has sufficient wang to let me design one myself. I suspect