What kinds of materials would you like to see in an Entropia Universe Fankit?

Hi,

posted in the original thread, thought about re-creating it here, Tass was faster ;-)

Aia ("ea aia nou") proposed there:

I responded, with a +Rep:

This would be ways more effective then any fankit IMO, and would have a very nice second use (transfer your EU installation to your new/ second computer)!

Atm, if you want to show EU to an interested friend, and to test if it would run sufficiently on his machine, it's necessary (to my knowledge) to download the whole package (that can take many hours on a not-so-fast line), or to use use advanced rocket science to get together all the parts & pieces of your installation, and hope that you'll manage to reassemble 'em correctly at his place - both is a bad start already, and the experience of the new player will start with rather strange & annoying activities ...

This already is hindering a lot the most successful, cheap and easy way to promote a game - the mouth 2 mouth propaganda done by happy players.
I know quite some ppl that would never bother to download a few GB just to test a game - they'd happily buy a game magazine with a DvD containing the installer, or would even pay a few $$$ for a cheap promo & installer DvD at their friendly neighborhood electronics discounter - but downloading the crap for hours, slowing down youtube & facebook meanwhile, never! =8@

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And fankits are a 2-sided sword. In fact it is giving away IP. Managing that this IP isn't used in contexts not wished is rather painful, and will w/o doubt create collateral damage trying. For sure, MA will not want to see their fankit used on an "EU-negative" site, but how to define it? What criteria to use? Who to judge? Isn't EP, maybe, too critical, and too independent, for example?

This is a minefield, and a can of worms.

A few banners for such a fankit would be OK, allowed to manually selected sites only. But this doesn't do much.

Additionally I could imagine a section of the main EU site containing "no download & reuse allowed", but "link at your pleasure" material from MA & the planet Partners. CC commons licenses might help to achieve this goal, they have taken the first court hurdles already.

For sure, this should be made then as it can be expected from MA as Platform Provider, strictly neutral. Only, judging their politics these days I fear this will stay a wet dream.

Have a good time, and happy holidays!