Thoughts about Realms
I will start by saying that I do not believe realms should remain on Survival. My reasoning is this: it makes survival to Arcade-esqe. What I will be most happy to see disappear is the realm system because it brings us back into the adventure-style days of 3rd Gen, where players would
walk to far away lands and explore. It makes the game seem alot more open.
Players will no longer be tied to a single realm and can live in multiple cities, but have to venture there like I believe they should.
Realms clutter up the map and make cities seem less unique. I am far more excited to see a city called Kurachi or Stone Lake city and not be greeted with any warning signs, but deal with the law established there instead.
More depressing is that realms make every single city a square. Terranobyl has square walls. Purelogic had square walls. Kurachi, on the other hand, had fancy walls that made the city truly look unique. We built those walls as we expanded, and it was just a more fluid, exciting experience altogether.
I'm having a hard time formulating good thoughts on this topic, but if I come up with more reasoning I will say so. Let me say this: Without realms, the environment of the server becomes far more dynamic, allows for players to quit being hermits in their realms, and many other important perks.
Some other Ideas, if Possible or Not
-Perhaps have some additional chat channels, joinable by anyone, but only one channel at a time. Even while in these channels, the basic all-chat can still be read/typed in / muted.
-Protected Rails in designated locations: For them subways for legendary cities >>
-A much bigger map. This compliments the no-realms thing in that it adds to the adventure and dynamic of it.
-Bigger biomes (if that's even possible). It's a shame to see a snow biome directly next to a desert biome, and also desert, forest, etc. biomes that last for only 30 blocks. If the size of biomes could be greatly increased, it would allow for more scenic cities. I'm looking at you, snow biomes
--Don't allow building within 150-200 blocks of spawn. I would like for Mods and Admins (or just admins) to have the power to edit everything inside this so we can work on a great looking park or something. Specially skilled builders may also lend a hand.
---PvP Disabled everywhere except for specially designated places, such as arenas. I was also thinking of a free city with pvp enabled in its boundaries (who on earth would wan to own that?) to allow for bandits and other nonsense.
---Lava buckets still enabled everywhere, so just like the good old days for pvp.
---The only anti-grief system is whatever intelli designs. No realm private or anything.
---Only two warps: /home and /spawn
---Make leaf blocks drop from trees
