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No + Keep existing work

11 (20.4%)

Yes + new content in project world

29 (53.7%)

Don't care + Ambivalience

14 (25.9%)

Total Members Voted: 52

[Scaraban]

I'd like to put my name forward for Project participation. I don't have any particular qualifications, except that I've built the hut and dock over at the public server. Still, if you think you might be able to use me, there I am.

I think we're on suspension pending an official resolution to Incident #372, or just considered too new to take a chance on on the project server

[bobusdoleus]

Hey, like I said, no qualifications to speak of. Just saying I's willing if people'll have me is all. If not that's fine too; I have a sandbox server to play on.

[x2yzh9]

Is there a bug with the whitelist? I'm listed as on there but the server doesn't.

[Osmosis Jones]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

With the red square in logical2u's post, it may not be quite so visible due to the isometry, but there is a very nice terrain feature to the west of it; I've circled it in red. It's basically a sheltered bay with low cliffs on 2 sides, a tall cliff to the north, and open to the ocean to the south; it's ideal as such for a port or similar. Or alternatively as a protected central district (say, the site for a palace) within the greater city.

If we work to make this already awesome terrain feature as a focal point of the city, I personally think the rest of the city would fall nicely into the region marked in yellow.
It has a number of distinct districts; the region to the SW is on a low hill, with amazing ocean views, the natural location for the upper class residential district.
We can site the palace in the central crater, on that spit of land, giving us a keep surrounded on 3 sides by water; good views and defensible.
NE is rolling hills, perfect for the majority of the population; so here we would have general housing and much of our civic buildings.
Finally, along the southeastern edge, we have a couple of islands; If we ran a wall all along the South, connecting those islands, we could leave a deep water channel coming in from the east, and have rowdy portside districts (so think lots of bars and docks) along the waters edge on either side of the harbour.


Anyway, those are my thoughts, any ideas/comments?

[Rose]

I think that bay is awesome, but too shallow. work should be done to deepen it.

[Scaraban]

I think that bay is awesome, but too shallow. work should be done to deepen it.

volunteering for manual labor

[lordnincompoop]

We can site the palace in the central crater, on that spit of land, giving us a keep surrounded on 3 sides by water; good views and defensible.

Rule #1 of Fortifications: Station them on the high ground.

[dragonshardz]

We can site the palace in the central crater, on that spit of land, giving us a keep surrounded on 3 sides by water; good views and defensible.

Rule #1 of Fortifications: Station them on the high ground.

Yeah, that cnetral spit of land would be a good place for a keep if it wasn't flat and at sea level. Personally, I think the cliff to the north of that little bay is best suited to the placement of a fortress and the pit of land can either be dredged out or made into the warehouse district.

Also, is it just me, or does that entire area seem a little small for what we are wanting to do?

[Osmosis Jones]

Might as well post it here; this is by no means a final plan, merely the most recent idea LN and myself have been bandying about. Please post suggestions and criticisms, this is after all a democratic endeavour.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

White is a keep
Black is walls and towers,
Yellow is a port district
Red is main residential
Teal is temple/town hall/ civic buildings
Brown is slums
Dark blue is a different residential district, say wealthy district
Pink is a lighthouse (all the island its on that isnt covered by pink will probably be trimmed down and turned into shipping canals.


NOTE: this is not intended to be a final representation of the city, merely the most recent discussed layout. OJ takes no responsibility for misinterpretation or wangst over this diagram.

[Sensei]

I appear to be on the whitelist in the OP, but when I try to log in, I get a message saying I'm not.

[x2yzh9]

I appear to be on the whitelist in the OP, but when I try to log in, I get a message saying I'm not.

Same

[Osmosis Jones]

What is that giant cobble bridge thing at the mining camp? 

[Scaraban]

What is that giant cobble bridge thing at the mining camp? 

a giant cobble bridge

[Osmosis Jones]

Yes, but what is it supposed to be for? Railways will be subways, the point to which its bridging is the single hilliest part of the continent, so there won't be any major roads through there, and it's solid cobblestone. Not even any smoothstone highlights. It's like a thousand interior designers suddenly cried out in pain, and were silenced (/jks)

...

Nah, in all seriousness though, until we have a city plan finalised and agreed upon by the people (which means commenting on presented options people, and presenting your own ones; we have maps of the surrounding terrain, sketch out your ideal layouts and argue for them. If no one else says anything, the project will be wholely decided by whoever opens their mouth first), there's not much point making any large structures, as they will likely just connect to nothing. That just leads to a bland jumble of buildings with no unifying theme. The point of this server is to make a planned, believable city, which involves more than just tacking whatever we feel like wherever we want.

[dragonshardz]

What is that giant cobble bridge thing at the mining camp? 

Ah, that's mine. I'm building it between the proposed project site, the mining camp, and spawn. It's intended as a temporary construct so that we can go between those three places without getting mobbed or otherwise injured. I'm heading toward the small island it's currently pointed at - and who's to say we can't make tunnels through the hills?