Jarnys (Leanon)
Money can be obtained if you put the Ryzom2 project on:Someone with lots of money (or your friends with programming and design skills)
http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/video%20games
Couldn't stop thinking about how to make the planet map happen:
If you take a huge icosahedron (20sided die), take the triangular face, divide this triangle into 4 smaller equally sized triangles, lift the center smaller triangle a bit up, and you have an 80 sided triangular surface that's closer to a sphere. You can then divide the smaller triangle into 4 even smaller triangles, lift the center triangle a bit to match the sphere and you have 320-sided triangular surface. Do the division again (1280) and again (5120) and again (20480) etc. you should eventually get a surface, where you move from one triangular face to another triangular face, where the angular shift of your toon isn't noticable! :D
Then, just as in Minecraft, let players edit this humongous map triangle by triangle!