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Shard Decoration

Draden

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Been doing a bit of shard anniversary trades and have noticed how most of the other shards have alot of decorations in the towns while ours is kinda plain. Why is that as i know the shard has been around a while.
 

Basara

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Part of the issue is that the decoration is based on the free time available to the EM in real life.

So, the shards with the decorations are the ones with EMs that have no life.



Ours, on the other hand, has a number of personal and family issues that limits their play time through the week. Topaz is likely to start decorating sometime this weekend or next (depending on how much time the two weeks' events take to set up).
 

Dryzzid of Atlantic

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You have to consider also that many of the oldest shards got their town decoration over many years from many sources; seer events, EM events, special events, through the governor's program, etc.

Lake Austin was one of the last shards added to the lineup so it missed out on a lot of the years when things were different. For example, on Atlantic you'd notice that in Felucca, several counselor's guilds in NPC cities are fully decorated. Lake Austin was added after the counselor program's first iteration so it wouldn't have had access to that.

Now, decoration has to be purposeful and the EMs have to be careful; Mesanna will delete anything she doesn't like as she did with the benches and other deco at Tram Vesper Bank on Atlantic.
 
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