[The-Jack-DeCk]

After camping a series of realms, I noticed something wrong. Well, two things actually.

The first one was that it brings people from rags to riches. I personally beleive that rags to riches is stupid. Why not just hand out every 100th new player a stack of diamond blocks? Because of the no spawning rule. That's why. But it takes just as much effort to sit on a realm, type in a command, and be up to 150k richer.

The second one? The fact that it causes more squabbling than anything else on minerealm. A certain person comes up with an excuse to ban whoever gets it. Every. Time. Other certain people camp them 24/7 and make people jealous. People who can't handle jealousy very well could get mad. Other people snoop around and make people regret sharing their location. Whatever the reason, people get mad and do stupid stuff. Stupid stuff can be avoiding with the following proposals:

Proposal #1: Any realms that are within 200 blocks of spawn that disban are auctioned off. If the person owned more than one, they would be auctioned off as a package. Say I had 3 realms within 200 blocks from spawn. The server
would say: "3 realms of Legacy are going up for auction." Then, players would type in /bid Legacy 45000, and if 45k was 5k higher than the current bid it would be valid. The auction would end within 10 minutes. Realms that are further cost 20k until 10 minutes later, in which they would cost the regular price

Proposal #2: Any realms within 100 blocks of spawn disban for 200k, any realms between 100-200 blocks disban for 150k, any realms between 200-300 blocks away from spawn disban for 75k, and all realms further disban for normal price.

Proposal #3: Realms are wiped upond disbandment. They are wiped to what the public land would look like provided it was never purchased and never altered. Along with this, realms would not disban on a specific date. They would instead disban within 48 hours of when they were supposed to. They would also not disban on the hour, it would be a randomized time.

[Intelli]

We already have plans for a new system. Rejected.

[The-Jack-DeCk]

We already have plans for a new system.

That is all I wanted. Thank you sir.

[GaidinBDJ]

We already have plans for a new system. Rejected.

Can we get a generic and cryptic developer-style remark about what direction the realm system is going to go?

[schmidtbochum]

Man, it's a game. You don't have to farm credits, camp realms etc.
First, don't show messages when a realm disbands.

Maybe make realm disbanding depend on the number of blocks the player placed/mined in a realm.
First realms would disband after 3 weeks (less than 500 blocks placed), some after 2 months (more than 20000 blocks placed).

Players get an email after the realm disbanded if they registered it.

When a realm disbands, it regenerates. Maybe except some rare items like dungeon chests (-> empty chests), diamond/gold ore (-> stone) and other rare blocks.

[dlgn]

Man, it's a game. You don't have to farm credits, camp realms etc.
First, don't show messages when a realm disbands.

Maybe make realm disbanding depend on the number of blocks the player placed/mined in a realm.
First realms would disband after 3 weeks (less than 500 blocks placed), some after 2 months (more than 20000 blocks placed).

Players get an email after the realm disbanded if they registered it.

When a realm disbands, it regenerates. Maybe except some rare items like dungeon chests (-> empty chests), diamond/gold ore (-> stone) and other rare blocks.

No. Unvanilla, and unMineRealmish. Just no.

[eah]

Man, it's a game. You don't have to farm credits, camp realms etc.
First, don't show messages when a realm disbands.

Maybe make realm disbanding depend on the number of blocks the player placed/mined in a realm.
First realms would disband after 3 weeks (less than 500 blocks placed), some after 2 months (more than 20000 blocks placed).

Players get an email after the realm disbanded if they registered it.

When a realm disbands, it regenerates. Maybe except some rare items like dungeon chests (-> empty chests), diamond/gold ore (-> stone) and other rare blocks.

No. Unvanilla, and unMineRealmish. Just no.

With all due respect dlgn, please consider the advantages to schmidt's suggesting before completely shooting it down.

The idea schmidt has here is that it would keep the map 'on its feet'. You go out 1000 blocks and it looks like a griefed up mess. Go out 2000 blocks and you finally reach trees. Flat is boring. Nearly all the realms within 1000 blocks are completely absent of their original terrain. If realms were wiped when disbanded, they'd be brought back to life. The map would become fresh.

It's a solution to the many players fleeing to the disbanded realms and looting what was there. And if the owner of a good build doesn't want it to be wiped after their planned leave, then they'd be forced to sell it to someone, instead of leaving it to disband into the hands of someone whom becomes instantly rich AND start all of the commotion as with Quentijn's realms.

Now, there are obvious disadvantages to this idea. It's not vanilla. Wiping certain bits of land would essentially be spawning items after they've previously been taken out (such as diamond ore). (We have done this before, remember) Some might say, screw vanilla. This really is not a big deal. Realms would not purposely be disbanded just for a little diamond ore. And what else? Stone, dirt, wood. This wouldn't be a huge upset to 'vanilla.'

Just saw that the OP had suggested this same thing in proposal 3 after writing this. >.>

However, I don't feel that MineRealm is heading in the direction to reset disbanding realms. This might be something for the future (if minecraft stays that long). Intelli is working on a new disband system. Maybe the new system will feature some of these suggestions.

Moo
Not a dead thread yet.

[The-Jack-DeCk]

In response to eah.

Yeah, I did suggest it. But if people want to talk about it, then by all means let them. I won't get mad if you rephrase my suggestions. Intelli's ideas for a new system may be unfinished, so the community needs posts likes yours to hear some more opinions. I'm just glad that even though my ideas were rejected, my original proposal will be implemented. Ad that is to change the system.

So many things are wrong with the current one IMO, and I'm glad you also wrote so in great length. It feels good to know that people are looking forward to the change, I certainly am.