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Duke X. Winter
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So you can rag on the designer of the bank, and the design itself, but we can't rag on you for ragging on them? Hypocritical if you ask me.
You need to visit greece and spain... As it was 5 years ago you payed tax for the size of your roof (as in england its the area you live and size) so most houses still "arnt finished as of how many stories itll be" or as to what a roof is as.... a garden isnt one....... thus they got round there tax laws clever buggersI am well aware of the rooftop gardens which exist in real life. They are precious few and incredibly far in between. Just like in UO, there are some that are great, and some that are not so great. The issue as it stands isn't *just* the rooftop garden. The issue is the raging cliche' that it represents.
The designer in question did not improve the bank. They merely repurposed it into a park. The inside of the structure itself is bone dry empty of any new decor. I would challenge any defenders of this rooftop garden/waterfall/campfire concept to post evidence of a 1 story construct with a waterfall and rooftop garden on top of it. The premise is just completely ridiculous.
...The destruction of immersion could not be more complete. Would you head off to Wells Fargo or CitiBank with your trusty fishin' pole, intent to catch yerself one of those elusive Red Pacific Northwest Salmon on the 14th floor? I hear tell that bankfish is a tasty supper. Know of anyone in any fantasy book, ever written, that roasted marshmellows on the rooftop of a fantasy kingdom's largest financial institution? You'd be hanging by the toenails before dawn.
Ya I must have missed it, maybe you were just talking to yourself cause as I look back over this thread I cant find it once let alone 20 times. I was just telling people about it... not saying OH GOD THEY GOTTA FIX THIS RIGHT AWAY. Why dont people like luna anyways? It has shops, a moongate, stable, inn... take away the walls in the middle and the tables and you would have a ton of space. So what if the bankers just walk around, pretend the vault is below ground where they put your stuff.Of course its only one way.. like I keep saying, it would have to be patched in to all shards to be a normal moongate. Did you miss the 20 or so times I said it could only be one way?
Heh heh. Well, the devs picked what they liked for some reason. I don't get the roof design either, but whatever. I do have a roof garden IRL, but I do NOT have a waterfall or river on it.I am well aware of the rooftop gardens which exist in real life. They are precious few and incredibly far in between. Just like in UO, there are some that are great, and some that are not so great. The issue as it stands isn't *just* the rooftop garden. The issue is the raging cliche' that it represents.
The designer in question did not improve the bank. They merely repurposed it into a park. The inside of the structure itself is bone dry empty of any new decor. I would challenge any defenders of this rooftop garden/waterfall/campfire concept to post evidence of a 1 story construct with a waterfall and rooftop garden on top of it. The premise is just completely ridiculous.
11pm, Tuesday night, Atlantic
Brit bank: 4 people
New Haven bank: 8 people
Luna bank: the usual crowd of people
I hope there's more to revitalizing Brit bank than just this.
Those actually fit the surrounding landscape..Check out some of these pics of one of the most innovative green roofs in the USA.
To think that the US government building designers were actually a bit ahead of the Britannians...
I'm sorry, since you didn't get married, I didn't take pics. ( It'll be ok.)We need pics of the EMs with that Very attractive thief, Aaron...He produced some very interesting conversation pieces! Although he was still scammed in the end.
Yep any char who does not move within 30 seconds will get guard whackedMy bet... Luna is going to change... soon. After all west Britain banks are finished.
Heh heh. Well, the devs picked what they liked for some reason. I don't get the roof design either, but whatever. I do have a roof garden IRL, but I do NOT have a waterfall or river on it.
Well the way I look at it, and the way I designed mine, was that banks in UO are hangouts. I mean that is one of the main functions they serve, and as such I tried to make my design a nice place to "hang out" which included some grass and flowers to go along with the table on the roof.Maybe because there were several people that sent in designs for a garden on the roofs of their respective banks, the devs decided to go with that as an overall theme for the remodeling of the brit banks.
(If I remember correctly, this one wasn't the only one with a garden theme somewhere near or on the bank.)
Go bank in Luna then.i've got multiple issues here with this redesign.
1.] there is not one single building in the entirety of the city of Britain that even remotely resembles the eye sore that has become WBB.
2.] there is way, way too much green crap on the roof. it's kinda blinding.
3.] with the waterfall, log, logs blocking the teleporter, and other space impediments, the functionality of the entire WBB rooftop is ruined. its actually a pain to move around. at the very least, a small 2-tile-wide bridge should be placed where the difficult to move on log is.
4.] WBB is the largest and oldest city in all of UO. so we expect architecture, not greenhouse overkill.
this eyesore needs to be gutted and re-implemented. we need a bank that we can be proud of, not something that othe shards mock and laugh at. plain and simple.