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#1 FFWoodycooks

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 11:34 PM

Hey ya'll, I was thinking to help make guidelines and rules for how everypony should build their home, we should form some sort of housing authority for each township. Make a designated building designed to fit within those guidelines with the building rules posted inside and supplies to help new bronies get set up in their new home.

I wouldn't mind helping form some sort of "building code" enforcement.

What does everypony think about this idea?

#2 Orshcmann

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 12:19 AM

I support this idea. As it stands, most of the housing is a bit random and outside the theme of the server.

#3 Ratty

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 02:09 AM

I'll at least say what my strategy has been, then we can discuss it.

I did try to beg people to help, but no replies:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=49&p=191

The rest of us admins wanted to do standards from the start, its how the other server we have is. But it was impossible to enforce since we had an empty server most of the time.

Each area already that has been built does have a leader, see the regions forum.
viewforum.php?f=4

We can use help with more too. Its up to the leaders to set the rules of that area, and they work on keeping people on track, and helping out.

My plan has been to first work on bringing in new people, then wait until we get to know who is who, then try coming up with standards. We're almost at that point, and maybe we can try starting just to see if we can pull it off.
By all means encourage people to improve the quality of stuff though, but we can't be super strict and demanding about it after the fact, since they were never told this before.

I will say that no new lots will go to anyone that doesn't agree to be accountable to standards. We're discussing finding somewhere we can stuff people if they are just lousy builders, or are new to the game.

#4 Natimus_Primehoof

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Posted 21 April 2011 - 07:31 AM

Much as I dislike saying this, I think we might want to consider something like we had on the original Nom Creative server. If you want to build, you have to register on the forums and ask for permission. If nothing else, it ensures that people know we have a forum, and gives them no excuse not to have read the server rules. It's not great, because people who just log in might get upset that they can't build, but this is getting kind of silly. We have 19 people registered on the forums, and more than 125 players have logged on to the server. Only about 40 of those stayed on for more than an hour.

Also, I'm going to go around later and put up some signs encouraging people to build more appropriate houses in Ponyville. There's really not that many that are too out of place, people have mostly built somewhat appropriate things. Jaunty's rather random fountain is the first thing that comes to mind, and he's also built outside his fence, which I had already stated was a no-no in the Ponyville thread. Several other players haven't built anything at all, just started digging or just claimed a lot, I left them notes as well. Next time I see any of them online, I'll ask what they'd like to do: either move up to code, or please move their things elsewhere. I'm willing to use the worldedit stuff to move entire houses out to a new spot, but we do need some better consistency.

Also, Uncle_Muscles has houses in both Ponyville and Fillidelphia, both of which have sizeable mines started. Did we ever decide that you could only have on house in one town?

#5 Ratty

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Posted 21 April 2011 - 09:33 AM

I would love to do the nobuild until you say hi on the forums, but I was starting out in a very relaxed mode while we're in the phase of gathering people. Its just a matter of when, but we will do it for sure.

One odd thing to me is that many people seem to have not played on other servers, so they didn't get it out of their systems just building whatever comes to their imagination. We started this with experienced players in mind that want to help join in on a big theme, so there's a conflict there. Maybe we should tell them to build on nom if they want to go off theme. Its not like its a BAD thing, but does cause a problem building out of place things here.

We never told people they cant have plots in both, we could let people since we have pathetically few people.

I can say after doing several servers now that all rules change over time, rules for a small server wont work for a bigger one and vice versa, so we could say its ok to have plots in multiple towns, until we get bigger, then we'd say no. Also, these servers only last like 3 months, after that everything is built and its boring. At that point, if we've grown, we can do a reset and do everything right at that point.

#6 Melkyore

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Posted 21 April 2011 - 05:54 PM

I agree with Natimus, I have been pretty lax about the building code. I'm gonna start enforcing now...


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