croxis
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That would be lag, give it a few seconds.
I assume you will also be accepting donations of saplings to replant the forest around you then?
All I ask is you read through this.
When I fired up our world for the first time the intent was a test. I knew nothing on running a minecraft server, figured we play around a little bit to get our bearings, and then start a new world, the real one.
I under estimated how fast people built things. I know how important my creations are to me and know how much yours mean to you. There is nothing worse than losing all that time and effort.
In the meantime I've learned a lot about minecraft servers. I think towny has been a great success. We had griefing and as a result a much better way to protect and restore our creations. Towny is now set up to let anyone build, or destroy, unclaimed land. We have a portal system that connects to the server and can connect between portals on the same server.
We still have some problems though. One is the world is too big. Even with the next level of server it still wont be the smoothest experience. Better, but not perfect. I also want to implement health and at least friendly mobs. We also have a ghost town (Fanatica). We have buildings that are damaged, owners who are now gone.
Here is my proposal.
We start over and get it (more) right.
Towny will be set to the same number of blocks for population size, but block sizes will now be 32x32 instead of the current 16x16. Space will never be an issue.
Out cities will then be build with the spawn point in the middle of them, to keep the map from being "lopsided" like it is now, with chunks in memory but unused.
Before a brick is layed we will explore the world to make sure we have the environments we want, an ocean for an ocean city, a mountain with a big cave in it, flat fields, etc. If it is lacking we can create another world before we invest too much time.
No more fanatica, the capital town will be the building itself
World size will be constrained to a 400 blocks. It will keep us close but not too close, and the server will perform better.
We can then fully document the history of the world on this website as well. The website software has a diverse ecosystem to fit out needs. Want a more structured image gallery? Can be done. Private forums for the cities? Can be done.
I will zip up our current world and post it as well, so our work will never really be lost.
I know it will suck to lose all the work we have done, but I think it is also a fantastic opportunity as well. What say we?
We still have some problems though. One is the world is too big. Even with the next level of server it still wont be the smoothest experience. Better, but not perfect. I also want to implement health and at least friendly mobs. We also have a ghost town (Fanatica). We have buildings that are damaged, owners who are now gone.
That will be nice, though Fanatica is limited by being on a mountain as much or more so than anything else. Same with Civtown though they have a lot they can do there since it is hollow.Towny will be set to the same number of blocks for population size, but block sizes will now be 32x32 instead of the current 16x16. Space will never be an issue.
I'm sure they will get used eventually, though a problem is that since the world borders got shrunk after some of us throughly explored everything they could we can't make use of the land we explored :/Out cities will then be build with the spawn point in the middle of them, to keep the map from being "lopsided" like it is now, with chunks in memory but unused.
I'm always up for some exploration, though college work is starting to appear again >.>Before a brick is layed we will explore the world to make sure we have the environments we want, an ocean for an ocean city, a mountain with a big cave in it, flat fields, etc. If it is lacking we can create another world before we invest too much time.
I have no idea how large this is.World size will be constrained to a 400 blocks. It will keep us close but not too close, and the server will perform better.
Maybe, but I'd like to see some of the current projects finished first (like Civtown).I will zip up our current world and post it as well, so our work will never really be lost.
I know it will suck to lose all the work we have done, but I think it is also a fantastic opportunity as well. What say we?
Starting a new world isn't going to fix this. People will come and go of their own accord, as well the limited room of a town doesn't/didn't provide a lot of room for new building projects<snip>
I would like to keep our current world. But I'm okay with a restart. I think a lot of things can be improved, however I actually like only being able to build in town as it gives the towns some purpose. I don't see what's wrong with the spawn somewhere neutral.
However if we do restart I would like to make sure that before we do we are sure that we will not reset for some time.
I don't mind having some finished homes in a town even if their owners don't go on very much, it adds to the town. Unfinished ones that don't look like they are ever going to be built (like ogr's which hasn't been touched in I don't know how many weeks) are the ones that take up space.I know it wont fix it, but it is now wasted space. There is also quite a bit more room on the mountain, but due to poor planning it got walled off (or removed for the capitol)
Damn RAM.Also the problem isn't that land is unused. I love wilderness. The problem is land, used or unused, takes up ram.
I see. I don't think we should restart until at least most everyone is made aware of it.There are some problems with waiting for some time. First is that art is never finished, only forgotten. For example the capitol. I am sure there will always be something for me to add, change, make better. You also have new people coming in who want to start new project and want to see those finished. You also have people like me who are less willing to be active with a new world coming soon.
IMHO the best time for a reset, if it is done, is within 48 hours or we could even wait a week. It also depends if we want the activity of the weekend to rebuild or do it mid week to get some setup done.