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Hey everyone!

A long while ago, a few long time players and I discussed the idea of creating a few massive community cities in order to tie the community back together. We came thiiiiis close to making one, even going so far as to begin buying realms for it. but then SilverknightM left and our plans were ruined.

I'm sure flanny, wxclm and a few others remember our night discussing this build. We did spend a few hours looking for a place to create this.

I don't really know the point of guilds at the moment, other than a title. Most guild members live completely separately to their guildmates... perhaps a few work together, but never a whole guild. However, with the upcoming map wipe which, should be coming soon(tm), there has never been a better time to change this.

What I want to do is create at least one... perhaps more massive community cities. Not like Abyssus, roanoke or spawn. Something not overflowing with noobs, but not entirely restricted like Sub Aurora. It shouldn't be a work of art, but a respectable, functional community city somewhere away from spawn.

Sub Aurora was my attempt, but it never went far with only 3 of us. I practically ended up designing every building in there. I don't want to do that again. I want to strike a balance between the open freedom that we had in 2.0 and the design elements of Sub Aurora.

In a city like this, no single player would control all the realms, or even have access to all the realms. I believe that what we should do is come together after the wipe in an interesting location, full of opportunity, and lay the groundwork for an incredible city. We could lay down roads and mark plots for peoples homes, mark plots for mansions which could be larger plots managed by little groups of players... etc... obviously this style wouldn't suit everyone, but I believe it provides a late game experience to MineRealm. Working together to be creative, rather than continuing to simply survive.

I don't want to go too far with my idea's, lest this become Sub Aurora 2.0. I want to create a discussion. I'm hoping that the best of us can get together with our guilds and start building one or more cities that all of us can be proud of. Our system makes our small server behave like a huge one. We separate ourselves and play singleplayer too often, even when we are with our friends. Lets come together again, for the first time in two years, and really make something good. Together.

If you have an idea for a style of city, a particular build, or anything related to this idea... post it here.

Sounds like just what MineRealm needs. A quick question, though--would there be any room in the city for those not blessed with your skill at visual artistry? Because there are some of us who would love to participate in a community project, but can't build a simple mansion to save our lives.

Anyway, good luck!

~dlgn

I am going to try to message you in game. My next project involves something that may be right at home in a community city. I will be big (4x4 realms, but the outer "ring" of realms is mostly aesthetics). I am both willing to let other help me design it and build it. It will be completely driven to entertain the community, not just vets or non-nubs. It is mostly secret, I have only described it to my brother. So yes, I like this idea.

dlgn wrote:would there be any room in the city for those not blessed with your skill at visual artistry?
~dlgn

lol thanks, but seriously I would hope that everyone who wants to would be able to help. Obviously there would be a standard, a low one at that, but I would hope that with thought it would be easy for most to meet. If it was that restricting, there wouldn't be half as many players as I would like helping out. Given that it needs to be at least a bit aesthetically pleasing, I would hope that a running theme would be established over time, and that nothing would be particularly ugly. I feel if something was particularly bad, and the community noticed, we could all work together and help each other out to improve the build and all of our building skills.

gallinka wrote:I am going to try to message you in game. My next project involves something that may be right at home in a community city. I will be big (4x4 realms, but the outer "ring" of realms is mostly aesthetics). I am both willing to let other help me design it and build it. It will be completely driven to entertain the community, not just vets or non-nubs. It is mostly secret, I have only described it to my brother. So yes, I like this idea.

This sounds very interesting! I would hope that a project like this, being driven by the community, would not have a very limiting amount of realms available. I'm sure there would be room for your build. I won't be in game until tomorrow, however feel free to message me on the forums about your plans, or ask me for my skype name via PM and we can talk about it

mitchie151 wrote:Hey everyone!

I don't really know the point of guilds at the moment, other than a title. Most guild members live completely separately to their guildmates... perhaps a few work together, but never a whole guild. However, with the upcoming map wipe which, should be coming soon(tm), there has never been a better time to change this.

Our whole Guild (Rising Destiny) lives together except of gman, but i will get a room shortly at his place^^



our guild works pretty much together and we are a good community, he help each other whereever we can. and we are all connected via skype, so nobody miss important things, and we chat about all sort of things.

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so and now to your project, i would love to help out, i also would buy 1 or 2 realms if needed.
i ask my guild if someone else is intrested.

Im not very skilled with building, but i love redstone, and i would love to have a part of the City underground, so people have something to explore, or something like that^^

I would be interested in buyin a few realms I it gets underway

Taratsamura wrote: Im not very skilled with building, but i love redstone, and i would love to have a part of the City underground, so people have something to explore, or something like that^^

I have a lot of experience building underground, given Sub Aurora

I would love to build this city in a very interesting environment, such as right buy a hyper-mountains biome where we can really be diverse. I want to see this start out in an area that gives people as many options as possible. To expand on my earlier ideas, perhaps we could even split it into large subcities or suburbs with different themes if you know what I mean... That way as new people join in they could build in an area that they prefer the theme of.

Ill help out if we can get it going.
Here are just a few of the porblems with the city idea that some people may have:
•Some of us are control freaks. We love to expand in every direction, have permission for everything and so on and so forth. So some people may not like how the builds on seperate plots contrast and so on.. although personally I dont think that will be a problem. Spawn city looks nice even though there are lots of contrasting builds.
•Whenever I think of a community build I think that everyone with have permissions to every realm (although this probably isnt ideal for many reasons you are already thinking of). Unless everyone was really tight-knit and there was a lot of trust I dont think this would happen. But then again, who can be sure.
•Finally, people like the independence of having their own cities so they can control how everything looks and so on. Personally, independence is nice but it doesn't beat the wholesome, accomplished feeling of being part of a community.

Anyways, I've saved up about 120k for wipe realms, but id be just as happy to spend them on the community city instead. In fact, thanks mitchie for bringing this up because I think its just what a lot of us builders need.

my entire guild lives together, but it's only me and 3 other players, and I'm the only active one. I would try to join you gentlemen, except to me that's sort of like betraying my guild members. This is a big dilemma for me. :[

-Meow

I haven't been part of an active community for a long time and have been getting a bit bored on my own so I'd be interested in joining. I'd suggest that a Savanna M biome or Savanna plateau could be good terrain for a city lots of elevation and surrounding flat ground. I currently have 100k that I could put towards realms.