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Fundamental orientations
The links used here send to the (french) forum which has been used a lot at the beginning of the project to organise our ideas and exchange our arguments. Things may have been developed since then, or even started to be installed on one of the three wiki or the game server.
Ethics
- a reflection on the different kind of players and the best way to have them playing together ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=116 )
- an ethical approach of the game, by working on the various philosophies that may be developed in it ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5 )
- the recourse to other free projects, including for the management of the game universe, by the use of language already existing, the lojban ( here→http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15 ) and an old writing system, DScript ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15&p=96#p96 )
Communication
- diversified interfaces, outside of the 3D client, to access to its data and interact with the world ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=63 )
- a great attention given to the way to encourage exchangers, encounters, gatherings, in order to make the game experience as free and appealing as possible ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=38 )
- communications between characters redesigned to fit in the game world as well as in a handy way for the players ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=233&p=556& ) and a reflection about the tools/objects usually encountered in MMORPGs to try some new approaches ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=64 )
Universe
- a concept of meta-universe that envisage access to different worlds, different game servers, but still in the same connection galaxy ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6 )
- a society system based on values related to a Gameplay bot original and innovative ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=70 )
- a rich and complex historical framework, which allows important inputs later, the notion of PoE / Power over Environment ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16 , and there→http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=113 ) and a presentation based also on indirect, incomplete, fragmentary texts, but evocative ones ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=16 , viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132 )
- a universe at the junction of dream, science and primitive universes ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10 ) with an original fauna ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=9 )
Gameplay
- a progression system for the character that reflects its choices in the universe, and allows it a great freedom in its interactions with the world, whatever its level ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=46 )
- quests of various kinds, answering different approaches of the game, in team, to discover the world, or control other creatures than one’s character… ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=21 )
- a modularity of the game areas, each one having specific characteristics (dreams area, legendary areas…) ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=18 , and there→http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=15 )
- a universe where the confrontations between players are framed and thought to serve cooperation instead of dissent : notion of PwP / Player with Player ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=200&p=605#p605 , and there→http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17 )
Roleplay
- animation made as easy as possible for the players eager to organise their events ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=91 , and there→http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=33 ) or tools facilitating the work of the animation team ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=131 , and there→http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=133 )
- tools developed to make IC interactions between characters as simple as possible, and allow casual players to compensate their low presence time and fully enjoy their limited time in game ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=20 )
- the link towards the game world and the others players thought in a new way to render the complexity of the immersion in a virtual world ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=109 )
- the whole information about the world, the game and the mechanisms available to everyon through a wiki, open to contributions ( http://khaganat.ninm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32 )
