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Quote from: sizeak on April 19, 2011, 07:00:54 am

Maybe to keep the structure of the city but still allow some level of individual building freedom we should allocate the land as we expand in various fixed sized blocks/plots of land with initial transport  links etc. pre planned and allocated, possibly reserving some land for future expansion.

This. Oh so much this. I would suggest a few guidelines (like a real-life council's Residential Codes) that would govern basic aesthetics; no solid single material structures, no building out over the boundaries of your plot, maybe force a requirement that at least 2 blocks seperate each plot etc., but otherwise what you build should generally be up to you. Major civic buildings should be done by communal deliberation though, of course.

/Agree.  We can zone land for specific uses (residential, industrial, etc).  If we all agree on a time period or general style (steam punk for example), we'll end up with a city that looks unified while still allowing for individual artistic freedom during construction.

If anyone's interested, I've started a village at Gnome Castle.  The keep is built as well as some surrounding walls/towers.  All are welcome to build or claim an empty building for their own use.  You can get there through the Nome Network starting at Port Royal.

From recent experiments with MoveCraft v0.4 (Boats v0.4), I have made the following conclusions:

1) Flying an airship 780 blocks in size that contains fences as part of its construction will cause half the server population to lag out so badly they disconnect.

2) Flying an airship 780 blocks in size that contains no fences will cause half the server population to lag heavily.  Not enough to disconnect them but definitely enough for them to complain about it.  A lot.

3) Flying an airship of 66 blocks in size (only 66 friggin blocks!) made up only of wood and glass STILL causes a few people to lag enough to complain about it.

On the plus side, it looks like we can move our airships in a vertical direction now.  So that's good.

It looks like I'm one of the few who didn't loose anything on the 15th.  Still, with so many others having lost stuff, I'm up for a server reset.

This is just a suggestion, but maybe we should disable cuboid on the new map (except for the /protect commands).  It seems to be directly responsible for all the current map problems.  Also, and maybe this is just me, but it kind of sucks when you put a lot of effort into finishing a big project only to have it completely dwarfed (no pun intended) and outdone by a giant cuboid construction in about 5 minutes.  I just think there's something special about the projects people build the old-fashioned way.

I meant above ground power lines. I very very rarely have power outages, like once every few years.

It's the same in Canada.  Above ground lines and very few problems.

Fire all over the place. Fixing.

Sorry!!!

Derekristow and I rebuilt the nomesphere's outer rings.  I thought I'd improve it with lava-falls on the outside

...which lit nearby trees on fire  . 

I feel like that guy who burned his house down while making a video of how to light a fireplace.

(I should mention Derekristow had nothing to do with this).

How bad is the fire damage PTTG?

And receiving 500some blocks from yor buddy Mraedis. ^____^

Oh right!  Sorry, I totally forgot to give you credit!  I guess in that respect the tower was more of a joint effort.

...the server doesn't hold your inventory anyway. *shrugs*

Download Persistor.  It'll save your inventory after you log off SMP maps.  Again I have to thank Mraedis for this bit of info.

Hmm... free blocks, persistor, and the repair hack... I'm still saying I didn't cheat, but I guess there wasn't as much blood, sweat, and tears involved as I thought.

You're missing cheating.

Hey, that hurts!  I didn't cheat!  There's a huge hollowed out cavern under that tower!  It's called mining... and obsession + free time on the weekend.  Most of that I did with rock picks too until Mraedis gave me an iron pick and told me about the "repair hack", where you throw a damaged tool on the ground to repair it.

...um... so I guess if you count the repair hack as cheating, then yes I was cheating...  But there was no hacking in materials or flying involved darn it!  That tower was a huge time user-upper.