Re: Township Teleport Hub History
Lord Gareth, Kijustsu Anei Village, Homare-Jima Tokuno Islands
Quote:
Winfield, Old Man
What makes a town a town? Well I have always gone by what you have written because it makes the most sense to me.
Cities and Towns
Player Cities and Towns are wonderful places of activity, comraderie, organization, and overall fun! Many times, the activity in a player town rivals activity in a town of the Realm, such as Jhelom or Serpents Hold. There are usually several qualities that make a player city or town:
*Housing exists in a central area, sometimes also with a few distant locations for special purposes (like a building near the ocean to offer dock services). This housing is organized in ways that make sense for overall town management. There are usually a town hall, tavern, commercial vendor establishments, monuments, and sometimes even a jail!
*A working Government, usually with a mayor to organize the citizens and guild(s) so decisions can be made on the progress of the town.
*Citizens and/or Citizen-Guild(s), who make up the Citizenry of the town. Some towns will have several Citizen-Guilds or just one. Others will also have a town stone for people who wish to just join the Town, but not a specific Citizen-Guild.
*Town Culture, where each town is usually unique in some fashion. Some are role-playing towns aligned to evil, good, or neutrality. Some are focused on events. Others are combat (PvP) or adventure (PvM) towns. Still others are quest towns. Many combine aspects of two of more of these qualities in their culture. The common denominator in most towns is they have a sense of respect and comradarie.
*Town Activity, where the town does have citizens around at least a few times each week, usually with some announced meetings or events.
*Web Sites and/or Message Boards, where there is a way to communicate with their citizens, patrons, and visitors. The web site or board usually gives information about what the town is designed for, who the mayor is, and how people can get involved with the town.
The difference between a city and town is usually size and/or type of government. Cities usually have a very structured government, where towns are possibly less structured
One city getting teleporters locked down and another does not problem can be easily solved. At this point its a well known fact the player run cities of the shard are Guardians Gate, PaxOku, Gyldenfeld, Kijustsu Anei, PaxLair, Dragons Watch and Silvervale. So at least that solves the problem for the introduction.
Now adding a Village, Town, City etc may need to be worked on more since we will have people jumping all over proclaiming this is a town etc. I would say make a set of guidelines. Give it to the EMs and have them do the linking. They are apart of our shard but will have very little bias when it comes to making such decisions.
I would say a guideline and checklist.... something along the lines of
Winfield's description of a town or city (Do they meet the items outlined in this description?) Public Community Active? (Is the village, town etc actively promoting community on the shard?)
Do we think EA ('gods') involvement is really needed to link our player towns/cities better? Or can we do it as players?
I know in our village we have always had the city rune books for all player run cities on the shard. I believe others do as well and, yes I do know we can do this with house teleporters in our own homes etc. I do believe that if it wasn't changed to you having to load the contents of a house by stepping onto it the house teleporter moongates would work well. It's just people passing by or not entering the house will never see it. Even when working on PaxOku city over the last how many ever years I still had people this year saying "This is a city?" heh Plus having it stand out does also promote the other communities and I know we all work close together.
So I guess this would also help to recognize that a player run community does exists here. Just my thoughts and I spent a good long while looking for that town and city posting lol. Like I said I always felt it was a good guideline.
