State of the Future: Colony
I traveled to the Twilight Forest today to see what Mic proposed, I have to say he's mostly on the right track.
When we start it'll be a group effort to get things going. We'll hall have to build small.
We'll have a NoobTown again too. These will have the smallest plots.
Plot sizes will be relegated to chunks. So a basic plot will be 16x16 HOWEVER, this will really be 13x13 as we are going to take 3 on each side for the road. The roads will be easy to rebuild by hand, and will contain lighting. Once a Probie buys his way out of NoobTown, he can then have access to the next highest plot. Once he becomes a Player he can move again. So we have these dimensions. Noob 13x13, Probie 29x29, Player 45x45, Vet 61x61. More on Vet later.
Gone will be the days of the Mage tower. The center of town will be a park and giant energy Pylon. This'll also be a 61x61 plot as all other math needs to be based on the largest plot size.
I do like MiC idea of having 16x16 plaza's in places. Rather than make these our roads, these'll be welcomed pit stops and places to put another structural pylon.
We are not doing the Mothership, we are doing a fenced in colony, think Jurassic Park. High walls, turrets. For those who know the Mothership, It'll be THAT with no bottom and the plots on the ground.
We are not yet certain if we can get this beast to JUMP yet, but we will try. The Twilight Forest, Nether, and End will not be enabled to start. We'll incentivise that with some fiction and a mini-game.
Dan has a special project he wants to spearhead before we leave this world. I'll let him tell you the details of it at his leisure.
How many ACTIVE players do we have right now?