The Overnet
Monday, November 20, 2017
8:56 PM
Key vision: The Overnet is a procedurally-generated representation of the internet, kind of… But more based on the geographical locations of the different IP's connected to it, rather than based on actual websites.
The Overnet is a home for many resources within NuBNO.
The Overnet starts out very wild, untamed, unpredictable.
Each user is granted two things when they join the game: Their own Netspace, and a door into their geographical position within the Overnet.
The Overnet can be reconfigured, stylized, and shaped by users based on their notoriety for polished presentation stylization: "Shapers."
Users can gain notoriety points by showing off their Netspaces to other users. Upvotes have the potential to increase a user's notoriety, while downvotes have the potential to decrease it.
The best starting point would be: Show off Netspace to community members until you become a Shaper for your community. Show off your community-shaping until you gain great notoriety both within your community and from other users and communities outside of your own. You will eventually become an Overnet Shaper.
A user must gain many upvotes from multiple nearby, active users, members within their community, nearby communities, or active users who visit the given area of the Overnet a lot, in order to become a Shaper.
Once a user is officially recognized as a Shaper, they can redesign and polish up a very small portion of the Overnet.
As a Shaper's notoriety grows and they earn upvotes from a larger geographical portion of active users, they will be granted the authority to change more of the Overnet.
Shapers can be overthrown if they create poor Overnet sections that, for example, unfairly bar passage.
A very defined set of rules will be presented to all users who become Shapers, and they must adhere to those guidelines to keep their privileges as a Shaper.
Overnet Shapers with extremely high notoriety will have the opportunity to define a "style" for the surrounding area of Overnet procedural generation: All areas within that Super-Shaper's realm of influence that are newly-generated will have this style.
A Super-Shaper's realm of influence can also continually increase by the affirmation of nearby communities.