Your View: The temporary map

[#Flexave 33]

In the temp server it doesn't really feel like an RP server. People may go round and RP but you see small Halflings building huge cobblestone towers and people even made up there own race, for example I met an Ent. Also, the RP seems somewhat dry and it feels more like a survival server over an RP one.

[SovyetMuffin 3]

Love it, its so much easier to roleplay

[+ Reggieo + 112]

I liky liky but 3.0 Is the Way forward XD !!!

[~TheDerpyBeagle~ 63]

I like it because I dunno, I just seem to like RPing just settling on a new world.

[Truthseeker83 119]

I like the closeness and meeting other players i've never seen before and also rping with those from my past (err.. my future?) anyway its intrsting and will add a whole new side of lore to my charater.. espcially since I didn't start until after these evetns.. this gives me the rare chance to rp as if I was there.. :) Thanks.

[Hwaldar 132]

Asulon should've been as small as this in the first place. A huge map is an auto-fail for a RP server, as it just gets too hard to find people or places.

[Electric Wizard 78]

No complaints here. I definitely prefer the map to nothing at all.

I didn't play LotC too much in this time period and never developed any characters in this era, so it is nice to go back with the experience that I have now.

The map works just perfectly for now.

On the issue of lore, I just consider it a void history, more like time travel, and we nullify it after the return to present.

[Temp 2006]

Personally, I am not a fan. I find it difficult to locate serious RP, and to be honest, I just can't take it as seriously as I could a permanent map. It feels a little pointless to me.

[The Best Basileus 97]

It's hard to play for an extended period, as it seems pointless due to the fact that it is only temporary; however, I enjoy the server very much, and there really isn't any way to rectify the problem I have with it.

[+ Reggieo + 112]

It's Not exactly old RP times that's for sure but its something for us in need of RP to do before 3.0 :D

[Bofauk 19]

I'm knew to the server so I didn't put to much time in to my character before the map got lost so that's no problem to me and I rather like the fact that there not so much lore, its actually libarting. I've been enjoying the small map because there's more people around to rp.

[Scarlet Kaiser 89]

My opinion? I am absolutely loving the temporary sever! Let my state my experience.

I am currently playing Corlette Faintree, who is an ancestor of my main character Arabella. After some exploring, she finally settle by woodland area between the foothills of a volcano and a coastal marsh after getting permission from Dawn, who more or less controlled that area. Corlette cleared the forest and constructed a farmhouse and began on a small wheat farm by a nearby river. She noticed some sheep in a local march and domesticated them, using the wool for building construction and selling excess wool for minas or other goods. Soon her farm began to grow from a steady income and expanded her farm operations which includes:

• Diverting water from a local spring to irrigate more crops and diversify her crops (potatoes, carrots, melons, and pumpkins).
  
• Importing cattle from another island and breeding them. Selling the leather and meat as well as wool from her sheep. Occasionally sells breeding pairs of cattle to nearby farmers.
  
• Hiring guards to protect the farm from monsters(including Ghast and sometimes pigmen), bandits, and thieves who try to steal or destroy the farm
  
• Hiring farm hands to gather the crops, shear sheep, or cull cattle as well as some odd jobs around the farm.
  
• Investing in infrastructure. This includes building animal pens, storage, a chicken coop(with chickens!) and windmill which is under progress.
  
• Engage in trade and/or bartering very often. Often selling crops, fruits, wool, leather, meat, and live animals in exchange for minas, lumber, cobble, seeds, iron tools, shears, iron ingots, and gold.
  
• The large farm gathers lots of RP, bringing in players who are often just searching for food and/ or wish to trade for livestock products. Also brings in those who desire to find a place to live in and/or work on the farm for pay.
  

And for you complaining about staving, I would encourage you barter with other players for food as I see small farms dot all over the place and people are bound to have food. Or just take crops from unprotected farms and replant the seed if your in dire need of food (be courteous!). Particularly at Corlette's farm as she is willing to trade ample amounts of food in exchange for minas and other good. Also, she sells items cheap, you can buy four loaves of bread for one mina! You can also steal crops from her farm due to lack of perms but you will be attacked on sight by guards so I wouldn't recommend it, they already turned away some would-be thieves. Do replant the seeds if successful :P

For those complaining about the lack of animal... well that be a consequence of players over hunting the limited animals on the map, something that happens in the real world. Nature can only provide so many animals. I just RP that most wild animals have been hunted to extinction.

Anyway, I know my experience is probably atypical of that of most players but it is just I thought I leave my experience as an example for others. I wasn't expecting much with Corlette but after several days, I am quite please with the current outcome. I am currently engaging in a dynamic farm-based roleplay in which my character realistically manages a successful farm and has become a place that promotes roleplay by bringing people to work on the field for pay or rent, engage in trade and barter (bringing trade even as far from people from other islands), and draws in thieves and bandits who wish to steals to feed themselves or plunder the farm for wealth.

While I understand that is will only be only a temporary map, I will have to say this map will probably be one of my most enjoyable experience on the server. I believe most of my experience can be owed to the degree of freedom enjoyed by the map, people staying in character (for the most part), and the small map size which consolidates the players and keeps them from spreading out too far, encouraging roleplay. Anyway, that is all I have to say about the temp map. Hopefully this will give community some ideas about how to make the best of the map temp (as well as their food problems) as well as give the staff insight of what I, one of many players, particularly enjoyed from this experience.

[Casamir 42]

I enjoy it, overall, however one thing I am starting to dislike is all these, terribly winding all over the place gross "this is my yard" Cobblestone fences people are putting up, it's one thing to have a fence, but when you mark off so much of an area with those fences, and stack them up and go up hills with them, and force people to take 10 mins to go around cause your yard is so large. That is no fun.

Also I'm having trouble locating any serious / real RP, everyone seems to be settled into their own groups, I try to engage and get into it, but people are so off on their own stories now. /sigh I even resorted to helping out the nearby town, giving food, iron, and other items away for free, I get a thank you and then they move on.

[Shorsand 2006]

I'm not overly content with it because for one, it's too small, and in that small area there are no resources. I mined for an hour and didn't find any iron, though I suppose that's because the islands are manmade (I have no problem with that.). I also don't really like the amount of mob-spawns and how strong they are. It's a major nuisance.

Also what the guy above me said about finding serious RPs. People are too grouped up.

[xDK 1205]

I don't like the fact that there is no regions. It's hard to look at all those cobblestone houses. I think It's allright to build where ever you want, you just have to make the build look just a little bit pretty.

I do not like the fact that greifers come to my house, take my weed, and leaves. Even though they replant the seeds, it is still greifing, of sorts.

What I do like though is that, the new map brings the community closer together, by making us speak with eachother, over teamspeak or/and ingame.