Crowdsourcing Velious

[Splorf22]

I was thinking about this while reading the latest 'wipe the server' thread, and if there is any way to accelerate it dramatically. The fact is that many, many people have finished Kunark by now.

I don't know the mechanics of how you edit the server files for quests, drops, factions, and so on, but it must be possible to make them available (and the editing programs as well) on the wiki. You could then create another test server that rebooted every day with god mode and such so people could play with their changes. I'd absolutely be willing to spend a little time on this, and I think a lot of other people would too.

The biggest danger here would be people doing the usual wiki vandalism, but I think this could be minimized. First, we could follow the crowdsourcing phase with a period of the real devs checking things, beta testing etc. Second, just tie people's wiki accounts to their EQ accounts, and ban their characters if they are clearly manipulating things for their own benefit.