Damon
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Alright, so this has been bothering me quite some time which is why I have created this thread.
Day by day when I check on the forums I see people being hated for copying&pasting files (map parts, scripts....) from the download section to their server and trying to run it. This makes me sad and arises once more the feeling that somewhere down the line we have lost our path to the "OPEN"-Tibia what back then we considered our Utopia. Alot of people seem to have forgotten what imho OT once stood for: The idea of anyone - no matter his/her skill - being able to make his own OTS. This is why we have the download section. To have anyone enjoy OT to their hearts content. Some will be able to put more time&effort in their projects, while others will perhaps just copy&paste a datapack and make it ready to run. The new guys will probably start off by copying more content than creating their own and in the end their server will surely for some veterans feel like copy&pasted when they play it. But shall it matter? I think not! Everybody in some way puts their hearts blood in a project and no matter the result he will most likely be proud of his "work" when the project is finalised, no matter how much has acctually changed when we look at the grand scale. But then again it shouldn't matter! OT was meant to bring the joy of creating servers to ANYONE and on the way perhaps to deliver some useful coding knowledge. I can recall when I was working on my first OTS when I was like 10 y/o and I asked my parents to buy the cheapest VPS (7$/m) I could find back then for me. Hell yeah it was one crappy vps and it was laggy but me and my friends had so much fun playing and developing our server that it shouldn't matter. What I'm trying to remind you off, is that OT can be enjoyed even on the lowest level of skill, that's what it was designed to be. OPEN to ANYONE. And directed at those who are complaining about the use of resources: They were released to be USED by the community so why not use them? What for you might look like some piece of crap might just be something valuable to another person.
I feel that the community has shifted to the idea of "try creating the perfect" (which even is advised not to strive for in the "How to make a successfull ots thread by @Leftwing) and thus looks down on any projects that seem to have rather been copy&pasted. The question is WHY would you do that? Instead try to encourage the people to add more custom content to it and work on it a bit more. It's not like you need to play the server. I'd even say 80% from the comments to a project is from ppl who wouldnt even consider to play it. And yes, there are people who are only looking to dl&run and profit from it. But then again we know how picky our community has become so I wouldnt assume they would make too much money from it. And if they do, let them. It's the players that decide wheter to donate money to the server or not. In the end Love will always be stronger than hate, so let's go back to being a community again, not some shattered individuals
In the end we all love the same thing: OT <3
Kind regards,
Damon
Day by day when I check on the forums I see people being hated for copying&pasting files (map parts, scripts....) from the download section to their server and trying to run it. This makes me sad and arises once more the feeling that somewhere down the line we have lost our path to the "OPEN"-Tibia what back then we considered our Utopia. Alot of people seem to have forgotten what imho OT once stood for: The idea of anyone - no matter his/her skill - being able to make his own OTS. This is why we have the download section. To have anyone enjoy OT to their hearts content. Some will be able to put more time&effort in their projects, while others will perhaps just copy&paste a datapack and make it ready to run. The new guys will probably start off by copying more content than creating their own and in the end their server will surely for some veterans feel like copy&pasted when they play it. But shall it matter? I think not! Everybody in some way puts their hearts blood in a project and no matter the result he will most likely be proud of his "work" when the project is finalised, no matter how much has acctually changed when we look at the grand scale. But then again it shouldn't matter! OT was meant to bring the joy of creating servers to ANYONE and on the way perhaps to deliver some useful coding knowledge. I can recall when I was working on my first OTS when I was like 10 y/o and I asked my parents to buy the cheapest VPS (7$/m) I could find back then for me. Hell yeah it was one crappy vps and it was laggy but me and my friends had so much fun playing and developing our server that it shouldn't matter. What I'm trying to remind you off, is that OT can be enjoyed even on the lowest level of skill, that's what it was designed to be. OPEN to ANYONE. And directed at those who are complaining about the use of resources: They were released to be USED by the community so why not use them? What for you might look like some piece of crap might just be something valuable to another person.
I feel that the community has shifted to the idea of "try creating the perfect" (which even is advised not to strive for in the "How to make a successfull ots thread by @Leftwing) and thus looks down on any projects that seem to have rather been copy&pasted. The question is WHY would you do that? Instead try to encourage the people to add more custom content to it and work on it a bit more. It's not like you need to play the server. I'd even say 80% from the comments to a project is from ppl who wouldnt even consider to play it. And yes, there are people who are only looking to dl&run and profit from it. But then again we know how picky our community has become so I wouldnt assume they would make too much money from it. And if they do, let them. It's the players that decide wheter to donate money to the server or not. In the end Love will always be stronger than hate, so let's go back to being a community again, not some shattered individuals
In the end we all love the same thing: OT <3Kind regards,
Damon
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