Sophomore Idealism
by Ernest · in Torque Game Engine · 10/27/2002 (11:39 pm) · 1 replies
I had a captialist idea a few moments ago whilst skimming the pages of an earlier-posted thread that need not be revived. I know it will be shot down, but I feel like saying it anyway because it might spark life into the gerbals that run constantly within our skulls to generate thoughts and ideas. (This post may seem inane at times, thus the thread is titled properly)
My idea is that of an expansion to the products that GG.Com sells. "Exciting!" you say? Well, it is indeed not. However, my idea is that GG.Com sells Torque enhancements and/or upgrades. "This new guy, I don't like him." - I can relate, I am not to fond of myself either, but you haven't heard me out entirely. The idea would require a lot of planning and changes, and I have taken some of them into consideration.
"Why buy engine enhancements when I can just download the latest milestone release for free? Trae... you're a wicked bloke!"
Well... either two things could happen:
a) CVS enhancements become limited to certain things such as bug fixes and small patches.
b) CVS upgrades are, in full, no longer used.
Furthermore, CVS could even be limited to only community contributions. Said contributions would have to be moderated by the all-wise, all-powerful GG.Com Employees, of course.
One of the benefits of this system would be that contributors could submit their changes to the engine, and people could buy a license through GG.Com would spend $X on said changes. Then GG.Com would get $(X*0.3), and the author would get $(X*0.7). A win-win situation for GG and the author.
This could have the potential to increase the size of the GG.Com community, and also the amount of contributors to the community. This whole idea was spawned by this romantic notion someone had that this community could (together) make Torque a product to rival that of currently marketed engines such as Unreal 2.
The downside to this is that the public would, obviously, have to pay for these significant engine upgrades. Another significant downside will be the support-side of a downloaded enhancement. Someone will post here in these forums like:
"I just purchased the Super-ultra Elite Torque Netcode Update, and the master server app that comes with it doesn't want to work. I haven't changed anything in it, so I know that heathen of an author flawed this engine enhancement for the sole purpose of annoying me (and only me)."
Then the whole thread could simply respond with "I am not rich, I do not have said engine enhancement." A terrible downside, only curable by enforcing a rule that the author is the sole individual responcible for supporting his sumbitted enhancements.
Back to CVS. Like I said, it could still be a free service that only confronts bug-fixes, and insignificant upgrades (insignificant compared to, say, a version of Torque that doesn't use the typeless Cpp-like scripting system). However, by making CVS a free service, GG.Com donates more bandwidth to us than we probably care to acknowledge.
In a way, my idea is like two hands - one washing the other. When we pay for more things on our end, it makes GG.Com's Employees' lives much more pleasent on their end. As a result... they feel much more compelled to do nice things for us as a community... or something like that.
It is so late where I am that I partly want to hold off on submitting this thread because I am getting intoxicated with fatigue, but I want it to be heard as soon as possible.
Please reply with your personal attacks, ideas, thoughts, complaints, and so on... I very much want to hear them. And also feel free to reply with any embarassing corrections of any sort, I really am tired. :|
My idea is that of an expansion to the products that GG.Com sells. "Exciting!" you say? Well, it is indeed not. However, my idea is that GG.Com sells Torque enhancements and/or upgrades. "This new guy, I don't like him." - I can relate, I am not to fond of myself either, but you haven't heard me out entirely. The idea would require a lot of planning and changes, and I have taken some of them into consideration.
"Why buy engine enhancements when I can just download the latest milestone release for free? Trae... you're a wicked bloke!"
Well... either two things could happen:
a) CVS enhancements become limited to certain things such as bug fixes and small patches.
b) CVS upgrades are, in full, no longer used.
Furthermore, CVS could even be limited to only community contributions. Said contributions would have to be moderated by the all-wise, all-powerful GG.Com Employees, of course.
One of the benefits of this system would be that contributors could submit their changes to the engine, and people could buy a license through GG.Com would spend $X on said changes. Then GG.Com would get $(X*0.3), and the author would get $(X*0.7). A win-win situation for GG and the author.
This could have the potential to increase the size of the GG.Com community, and also the amount of contributors to the community. This whole idea was spawned by this romantic notion someone had that this community could (together) make Torque a product to rival that of currently marketed engines such as Unreal 2.
The downside to this is that the public would, obviously, have to pay for these significant engine upgrades. Another significant downside will be the support-side of a downloaded enhancement. Someone will post here in these forums like:
"I just purchased the Super-ultra Elite Torque Netcode Update, and the master server app that comes with it doesn't want to work. I haven't changed anything in it, so I know that heathen of an author flawed this engine enhancement for the sole purpose of annoying me (and only me)."
Then the whole thread could simply respond with "I am not rich, I do not have said engine enhancement." A terrible downside, only curable by enforcing a rule that the author is the sole individual responcible for supporting his sumbitted enhancements.
Back to CVS. Like I said, it could still be a free service that only confronts bug-fixes, and insignificant upgrades (insignificant compared to, say, a version of Torque that doesn't use the typeless Cpp-like scripting system). However, by making CVS a free service, GG.Com donates more bandwidth to us than we probably care to acknowledge.
In a way, my idea is like two hands - one washing the other. When we pay for more things on our end, it makes GG.Com's Employees' lives much more pleasent on their end. As a result... they feel much more compelled to do nice things for us as a community... or something like that.
It is so late where I am that I partly want to hold off on submitting this thread because I am getting intoxicated with fatigue, but I want it to be heard as soon as possible.
Please reply with your personal attacks, ideas, thoughts, complaints, and so on... I very much want to hear them. And also feel free to reply with any embarassing corrections of any sort, I really am tired. :|
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Torque Owner Jeremy Nichols