It's a lot more expansive than Second Life though.... but it's only a matter of time before people begin selling the 'apartments' and buildings they've programmed into the thing for real hard cash. You set up your 'building' the same way you set up a webserver on the web, and it does much the same thing. It could be a public meeting place, a chatroom, a Joe's personal metaverse site..... It could even be a high class establishment with clientele carefully vetted for quality of avatar and general reputation. I'm trying to remember what exactly it was like in Snow Crash and how it worked.
Followed by the usual accusations of code-theft and infringements.... and bits of jailbroken hardware appearing in places and being used for things it wasn't really intended for.
And yes, griefer's exist.... oh boy do they. As do that unique class of elitists who insists that if a newbie can't figure it out, they aren't worth being told how..... who were newbies themselves about 2 weeks previous and seem to have forgotten all about it. It's an anarchy, because it's pretty hard to outright ban people from it. You can boot a sever and revoke their address/name but that's about it, and maybe add the user to a blacklist that's circulated around by a cabal of high-ranking system administrators with enough influence and clout to keep the whole chaotic aspidistra flying while steadfastly denying such a cabal exists.
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Quote:As an open source software, I can see that Metaverse will quickly spawn a lot of strange additions, mods, bugfixes and similar things.
Followed by the usual accusations of code-theft and infringements.... and bits of jailbroken hardware appearing in places and being used for things it wasn't really intended for.
And yes, griefer's exist.... oh boy do they. As do that unique class of elitists who insists that if a newbie can't figure it out, they aren't worth being told how..... who were newbies themselves about 2 weeks previous and seem to have forgotten all about it. It's an anarchy, because it's pretty hard to outright ban people from it. You can boot a sever and revoke their address/name but that's about it, and maybe add the user to a blacklist that's circulated around by a cabal of high-ranking system administrators with enough influence and clout to keep the whole chaotic aspidistra flying while steadfastly denying such a cabal exists.
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