From - Tue Sep 29 18:10:54 1998
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:10:34 -0500
From: Myrla Kurosawa <myrla@kef.net>
Organization: Ka'at Exploration Fleet
To: fuzzylogic@mudservices.com
Subject: Re: Some thoughts about creativity

Ragnar Fyri wrote:

> Well, I have some times criticised people for being unoriginal when they
> immigrate their old Furry characters to a new muck and start rebuilding the
> same things they once did there. But it's not just the mortals, and you
> can't really blame them for thinking traditionally when they come to a "new"
> place and the first thing they see is another park.
> No, I'm not suggesting a change here (but I'm trying to get into a new muck
> early enough to make a difference there), but I wonder - just like I wondered
> about my successor all those years ago - why do muck founders 'always' start
> with a park? Do they all have a thing about parks, is it somehow considered
> an appropriate setting for the center of the uinverse - or are they just
> doing it just because that's how it was once done on Furry?

I suppose the idea is to provide a central gathering place when everyone
could meet to hang out. Sure, this could be anyplace.. indeed, even on
FM, there are a variety of "hang outs" available. Clubs, Pools, Bars,
whatever.. Parks do seem to be the traditional thing to put at the
virtual center of a muck, by whatever name.. on Furtoonia, it is called
"The Square".. on Tapestries, they have a plaza. I have no idea why this
is, though.. just seems like the thing to do.

For the record, though, FuzzyLogic had no park at all during its first
year. Just a simple clearing in the forest. Not even worthy of being a
place to hang around. You think it's lacking in structure now, it was a
mess back then. :)

After I became a builder wiz, Tigra gave me the go ahead to do some
restructuring, my first acts was to build a park, and redirect the guest
cave and player start to it. :) Why? It seemed like the thing to do.  :)

I actually first built that park on Furtoonia as part of a
residential/recreational development project. Lake Kurosawa was part of
that project. The project has since pooped out though, and I eventually
wiped all but the residential area and the park. On Fuzzy, I was able to
accomplish what I had wanted to do on Furtoonia, and then some. I had
the opportunuity/ability to go beyond my vision. The surrounding
suburban development is the result. Though I'm still needing to work up
descriptions for the streets. :)  


> Well, the park question only has academic interest now as far as FL is
> concerned but there seems to be another Furry tradition on its way. When I
> returned from a period of forced absence after my modem broke down (What do
> you mean you didn't miss me? ;P) I found that we now had a mayor. Okay. What
> does a mayor do? Same thing as on Furry, of course! Well, on TFF the
> currency never changed, and I found that I for one could live without money
> changing in my pocket. So is this changing money thing something we really
> want or just something we feel we have to do because etc.?
> Maybe we should vote on it... <g>

We change the currency because its creative, fun and potentially
humerous. Also, because we can! :)  I too, know a muck where the
currency never changes.. Tapestries. It's been just "pennies" for as
long as I can remember.. how boring!  :)


                    ...Myrla


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