Your View: The temporary map

[Shelby ! 21]

It feels a little cramped and pointless and I go there when my boredom is so overwhelming that I have to do something. I do enjoy it when I get on, I'm just not motivated because there's no longer anywhere to explore and my character is not going to be used in the next map xD

[AcelinH98 0]

Hello,

I have played the map, and I would give it a 2/5. The reason is because the map is so small, and you can't really find anywhere at all to build yourself a home. I played also on Aegis and that map was good, but noting was layed out very well, it was sort of everywhere. But the temp map is abit more layed out better.

I just hope that the new map is layed out good, very big and we have a lot of opportunities to build our own home or town!

[ΩMercenΩ 67]

I just feel like it's a lot a bit of an eyesore, I really like the well thought out architecture of the server, and I guess I've grown used to it, and also I feel like the rp is just kinda random and irrelevant, as we all know it's going to be voided soon, just my opinion though. *le shrug

[Bethykinss 158]

I'm thankful for this temporary server, it gives you the chance to build your own things and I love the server but the one thing I don't really like about it is that it is small and the role play isn't the best. I am still greatful for all the hard work the staff has put in and I thank them for putting up the temporary server, but that is just my opinion of the temporary map.

[Stag 3230]

The only problem I see with the new map are that a few of the towns have began morphing running into each other.

You can literally walk out the gate of one and walk ten blocks reaching the next which is only slightly bothersome to me. Also I feel like there are a lot of un-RPly built tree homes in the jungle. A lot of house that don't use proper supports and essentially are floating. Montefluer has a great location and has made great use of the land so far, keeping its building slightly more roomy than other towns.

I think a GM should go though and clean up a few places during a natural disaster "Earthquake?"

Also the snow is inviting but it's a little dramatic. You can't see any of the lands beauty due to the block high blanket of snow.

The desert island is simple and beautiful by the way. As well as the Orc and halfing isles.

[AcelinH98 0]

Also, on the new map. Please don't put as much snow, it is so hard to build and walk around.

[ULTRA LORD 25]

Nah, I'm too lazy to switch to my guy's father.

[leave me alone 995]

I enjoy it. I get to play as my character when he was younger and define how he acted when he was young.

But yeah, snow tends to get annoying. I usually get the Homestead workers to just shovel it all away.

-Le Meta Game Advertisement- (ITS A JOKE)

Come by the Twinbuck Homestead. It is located at -META- and run by -META-.

Good day sir/madame.

[leave me alone 995]

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.

Sounds a lot the Twinbuck Homestead. I love getting visitors and travelers coming along. I wouldn't go as far to call it a hub, but I will say that I do get quite a lot of guests and workers coming.

[AcelinH98 0]

Also another thing I would like to add is that I love that we are able to build anywhere we want but inside cities, it gives us a chance to have a home and also for us to start up our own settlements and villages, I hope this could be implemented into the new map.

[Distuth 69]

Also another thing I would like to add is that I love that we are able to build anywhere we want but inside cities, it gives us a chance to have a home and also for us to start up our own settlements and villages, I hope this could be implemented into the new map.

No. Just...No. This is what happened with towns in Asulon. All they had to do is get some schmuck to write up a charter and some other schmucks to sign it and they had a whole town all to themselves. Problem was, most of these guys didn't know how to run it. By the time the map file went down, most of those were abandoned, or so sparsely populated they might as well have not bothered. This is a BAD idea.

[Rhia 936]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.