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Tha’s kind of unfortunate. Was really hoping for a little more biodiversity for us people that can’t afford charters just yet. Ah, well. Thanks!

Oh, ok, thank you! I really hope bunnies and cats are there. Parrots I guess are easier to tame at least, but they’re rarer. One last thing Tofuus and you didn’t catch, though! ? Also I forgot to ask: since the freebuild area is “over the mountains,” is it, like, one or two biomes? XD The illustration of the map looks lovely but It’s way too zoomed out to really see more of it in detail. RIP: my blind-ass eyes. ? BUT ANYWAY yay for FREE FLOWERS! Is it stupid that I’m excited about that way more than log pits? ^(◕ω◕✿)^ Secret, Real-Time Footage of Kha with Flowers

And still kha and hou-zi aren’t included in the application numbers. -_- Awesome job otherwise!

I’m squinting and don’t see regular sand there. Just me? Also will ALL flowers be sold – even rarer ones like swamp-only flowers and such? As for animals – could we possibly have a list available, since evidently horses won’t be able to be bought (odd but ok). Will llamas, cats, wolves, and parrots (all 4 rare AF on Atlas for some reason, but cats/ocelots and wolves especially), rabbits (notoriously hard to wrangle and bring all the way back to your house without them dying), and, dare I ask... polar bears? (Admittedly the polar bears are far less wanted by me than cats, wolves, rabbits, and parrots, but it’s worth it to ask anyway) Turtles and dolphins ain’t happening, that’s for sure lol. Cows, sheeps, and pigs were easy enough to come by, but horses were rarer and llamas you basically had to find someone that had left theirs behind, or ask someone who already had 2 if you could buy a baby. Will mining caves be regularly re-filled like the Atlas mining cave, so we don’t run out (and/or have endless mazes spiraling outward from the entrance that have picked all the good stuff clean). Will the old stuff from admin shops in the CT be back, like slime balls and string for making leads, saddles, end rods, hoo-kahs, etc? I’m still also unclear whether the soul-pillar system is gone or not, and if we’ll be able to buy upgrades like we did in Atlas for ridonkulous sums of minas considering how small some guilds are. Sorry for all the questions! ?

To (@TheRealKiru), ((OOC NOTE: Hey there! Before I approve or deny, I need some more information The most recent (largest) settlement, in Atlas, was the Warhawkes’. However, as Lythorian didn’t share the Warhawkes’ interests, he lived in the Dominion (as in the “Dominion of Malin” which was mostly populated by wood elves as well as some high and dark elves) until founding the Rangers. As for the “ethereal companion,” what is it and what are its origins? Certain magics, like anything that would harm or cause the death of another living thing as its source of power (necromancy, blood magic, etc), is forbidden in the Rangers.)) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ To Aladar Viathran (@RugRatRew), Thank you for applying. Your application is currently under review. My best regards, Ranger Master Lyhtorien Banebow 

ONE MORE DAWN... ONE MORE DAY! ONE! DAY! MOOORE! (Lyrics tastefully stolen from the Les Miserables musical)

I would also like to know these things. +1

@TarreBear @FlamboyantNewEra please answer when you can to the questions I posed above. It kinda all needs to be answered before the vault opens and 7.0 launches

To Yvonrena Illykur ( @TheRealKiru ), Thank you for applying. Your application is currently under review. My best regards, Ranger Master Lyhtorien Banebow  To Daisy Applefoot (@NotEvilAtAll), "Well met, recruit; welcome into the fold. I am eager to meet face-to-face. Send a bird my way at your earliest convenience." - Ranger-Master Lythorien Banebow

Awesome thank you for the link. What was that about free-build being implemented after the launch, though? Where does that leave us homeless neutral people? Will there be various biomes to choose from? Also, still some concerns though: I liked a lot of your suggestions but removing the CT altogether and placing new players in various parts of the map would, firstly, be a nightmare to code because the NPCs specific to giving new players a tutorial would have to be placed in each racial area and would take up a lot of space in nations people worked hard to attain and build. Secondly, not every character is tied to their race. My dark elf, for example, has nothing to do with other dark elves and they don’t even have their own city. That also leaves non-sub-race elves. humans, and dwarves with nowhere to be spawned in, or too MANY places to be spawned in, in the case of humans. I hate how large th CT ring is in Atlas and would welcome a much smaller one or none at all, though. It’d be neat to just have a circular road around the CT with the nations just on the other side, so newbies and oldies alike don’t have to trek out into the BFE. That’s kind of already being fixed, though, what with the nation ring being closest to the CT. </shrug>

Sorry, I must have missed that announcement, and I can’t seem to find it. Can you link it? And also maybe link it in the original post somewhere, for others? Okay so there IS freebuild. My guild is neutral to all entities and only has like 6-7 members so it’s unlikely we’ll be able to apply for dependency for a good couple of months. If I build a temporary headquaters for my guildmembers to be housed and have guild meetings in, will we be able to apply for a tier 1 charter if/when we gather up the mina and signatures? Will our freebuild be automatically erased? Are there rules/information somewhere on the new freebuild system somewhere, specifically activity and such? Thanks for the clarification on this and apologues for all the questions.

@TarreBear So, a few questions/concerns: RESOURCE PITS: The resource pits should not be on someone’s owned land. That is ASKING for trouble. If you’re going to split the resources up around the map, sure, that’s a bit annoying but I guess it makes sense RP-wise even if it’s going to take even LONGER for smaller settlements and guilds to re-start on this map. It took days to build what I have even WITH the resource island, but I digress. PLEASE do NOT put resource pits anywhere but neutral areas. That’s power no nation, guild, or group should hold. Will there be flower/bonemeal pits? Getting flowers (and the dyes specific to certain flowers) was a huge pain before the change of adding those things, because it was a choice of making land-scars/stealing from builds because there weren’t enough (any?) skeleton mobs spawning to grow your own, or somehow find someone that was selling the flowers. ITEM VAULTS: (pardon me for asking here, because it seems the “Vaults and You” thread is pretty dead/not being looked at anymore) One of the items I want to put in my vault is a voting-for-30-days thing enchanted golden hoe, and although @FlamboyantNewEra said in this thread that it would be ok to be put in my vault, the item is soulbound and thus cannot be placed in my enderchest to be converted. The rules in that thread’s first post seemed to conflict, saying if it’s enchanted it NEEDS to be converted or I WILL lose it, without it being replaced. I’m kinda confused. Is it, or is it not going to be able to be put in my vault? Can soulbound things in GENERAL be put in vaults? I also have a few other signed RP items so I don’t know how they can be put in my vault. Also to do with vaults: when are they opened? I’ve gotten mixed messages and how will we know when they’re opened? Will you be pinging (@/everyone) us on the Discord? I have 3 characters. How will I be able to get the items I want from all 3 into the vault? Forgive me if these are stupid questions, I don’t know how they work as this is the first map transfer I’ve been through. Will a staff member be helping me and thus have to wait for my persona-change cooldown to be up?

To (@NotEvilAtAll ), ((OOC NOTE: Hey there! Thank you for applying but you missed some parts that I’ve highlighted here that need to be answered.))

Ohhh, I see. Well then. I guess I’d appreciate a little free advertisement on that fact that we exist so we don’t die out/stop getting new players, haha, but that makes sense. Oh well!

Wow these are neat numbers! But wait, no mention of creature application races like Hou-zi and the newly-CA’d Kharajyr. Any numbers on those? :3

The Kha-Pantera, Tlaloc, whom had been living in Holm in quiet seclusion, ever in prayer for the kha peoples, opened his mailbox and returned into his small home he once shared with the dwarf, Dor. He sat on his bed and stroked the feral cat that was free to come and go from his window, as was the kharajyr way, as he read the notice. “Hmh... Tsisha... she has done much for the kha seence Tlaloc first met her. Tlaloc has high hopes for thees, though he ees saddened by the loss of one of our kind.” Tlaloc folded the note and peered at his feline companion. “We will be moveeng soon, friend.” The feral cat tilted her eyes up at him before slinking away. The kha chuckled... then sighed wearily.

Hey there! I have a few questions about the upcoming map change. When the next map change is coming up, will we all be pinged in the Discord? The “chest of items” we can bring to the next map, is it a double or single chest? What type of items aren’t allowed (weapons and iron, I was told, but are building supplies like the glazed clay blocks I have be ok? Will the “vote every day for a month” prize I got, a golden hoe, be allowed? My character uses it as a staff/walking stick)? Will the chests be one per PLAYER or one per PERSONA/CHARACTER? Regarding other things: Will there ever be a flower shop at the Cloud Temple so people don’t have to steal from free build areas? Bonemeal can be used on tall flowers, but not regular ones. Also, bonemeal was really rare this map because skeletons hardly ever spawned. it was always spiders or zombies, for the most part. >_>; Thanks and sorry for all the questions! **EDIT** Where will the community meeting answers be posted? Will we be pinged in the Discord that as well?

Hi everyone. An update on my health I'm sure you're not sick of hearing about :D : I'm still sick, and losing more weight. I'm down to 107 pounds and mostly bedbound. So, that's fun. Possible hospital trip in my near future because my mom thinks there's something else going on. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for me, and I hope to hear from you lovelies soon. @ me on Discord if you're talking to me or need an activity check, I'm in a lot of Discord and will miss the message otherwise. ❤️

To Jarseik Myrsta (@TheDragonsRoost), "Well met, recruit; welcome into the fold. I am eager to meet face-to-face. Send a bird my way at your earliest convenience." - Ranger-Master Lythorien Banebow ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To (@NotEvilAtAll), ((OOC NOTE: Hey there! Thank you for applying but you missed some parts that I’ve highlighted here that need to be answered.))

((OOC NOTE: Thank you! We are indeed still active and accepting recruits. I am ill at the moment and thus cannot over-see official events. but I expect to be back true form in the near future. In the mean time, please feel free to apply and, if accepted, I’ll friend you on Discord and invite you to our Discord server so you may be included in planning current and future happenings within the guild, including those concerning the upcoming map change.))

(snipped) Wow, that sounds awesome, wish I’d been around for that! But on the subject, it seems like while there is a SLIGHT lead for “pure charter” (by only 11) at 123, 112 people voted for pure freebuild or hybrid as well. It seems like we’re pretty evenly divided and despite the slight majority, the rest of those who voted should be taken into account. Those who voted hybrid or pure freebuild are by no means a small amount of people and shouldn’t be disregarded, in my honest opinion, by the developers/staff over-seeing this poll. How that might be solved is beyond me, but I believe that the “pure freebuild” people would rather have hybrid than no freebuild at all. In closing: The deciding factor in such a huge part of gameplay for an entire map should not be outweighed by 11 votes out of so many. All, including those who voted pure charter of course, should be taken into account. I don’t envy the staff, regardless of their decision.

You are contributing nothing to this discourse other than re-stating “kill freebuild, freebuild is dead, I hate freebuild, blah blah blah.” Maybe instead of posting single-line reactionary posts for every post you disagree with, think up a counter-argument like others in this thread are doing. Oh, I see. Yes that does sound rather silly. I’m not sure calling anything “cancer” is necessary, but you provide some good points. I’m also not SUPER fond of plugin activity checks because not everyone in an active community RPs constantly in that one area. It pressures people to RP in one area to keep it “alive.”

I see the cons of freebuild (land scars, abandoned builds, decentralized RP, etc), but I also see the pros (independent guilds, settlements/towns, and the like would not exist if they didn't start in freebuild, freedom of creativity for both old and new players that don’t have to be governed by whatever power over them). Having a combination of the two systems may be difficult, but necessary. I think the smaller map-size and circular/tiered system of the new map will cut out MANY of the cons that exist in people’s idea of freebuilding. In addition, activity checks ALREADY EXIST on freebuilds. My guild, Rangers of the Wild, as long with many guilds and smaller settlements (Holm, for example) all needed freebuild to start off. Guilds need headquarters, and many guilds, like mine, are neutral parties, so having them be part of a nation would present them with a conflict of interest if they wanted to aid someone from an “enemy” kingdom even if that someone was, simply, a citizen. It conflicts entirely with the very idea of independent guilds. So, yes, I like Option Three. Yeah that’s kind of an issue with smaller guilds. Activity checks are fine and dandy, but demolishing something entirely, especially something that may have taken thousands of minas and days of work to gather resources and build just... sounds like asking for a riot. I do in fact like the idea of having Soulstone Pillars still, but the fact that each SS Pillar can only have THREE PEOPLE on it before one has to shell out FIVE-THOUSAND MINAS is very, very hard for guilds and towns just starting out. THAT needs to be fixed. Maybe up the number of people tied to original, un-upgraded pillars to five, and the upgrade costs start at 3,500 or something. Indeed. My two other characters, while having a home in cities/towns, also prefer to have a hidden home out in the wild blue yonder where they’re less likely to have their stuff ravaged by random goons. TL;DR: Options Three, please. I like the idea of vassalship and purchasing land under nations to farm or do as you wish, but freebuild is still necessary for the many of us with characters that want to ROLE-PLAY in major nations, but not LIVE there.