User blog comment:Arstarpool/R.I.P. 1983: Doomsday/@comment-461469-20100718045047

To be honest, I think it has already been to developed to be a successful open timeline, and here is why:


 * The story from the POD to the present is their, and, if not completely fleshed out, only the little details that aren't terribly important, but add flavor to the TL, is missing. It will be very hard to add new major details without re-writing the older ones, which can ultimately throw Central World into chaos, and make it incomprehensible.


 * The world is almost solely your creation, from the POD to your "Modern Renaissance." This makes it a very good single-person TL, but very difficult to be a cooperative project for the whole community, especially now, after you put a lot of good, hard work into it.


 * As I have mentioned with 83:DD being nearly impossible to work on, as the various stories of the different survivor nations have to link together, so every idea has to be accepted into canon after a proposal period, but it is difficult to write it to match up with the rest of the TL without knowing virtually everything that has been written into Doomsday. Central World poses the same risk: with people who would like to help, but don't know all the twists and turns, it can ultimately mean that you, the sole creator, would have to go through everything to make sure it links up with the rest.

I'm not trying to shoot you down here, but CW is so much better as a sole AH, but the work you have put into it means that it can never be a successful co-op project, unless your willing to start from scratch and let everyone contribute ideas.

Anyway, another spiel.