[Intelli]

How about, for starting a realm, we make it similar to a guild system in most games.

Ex: You need 6 players, and 10 diamonds, to start a realm.
This would encourage people to join up with other players, versus going solo.

Why do we want to discourage going solo? Is there some demonstrable reason that we as a server want people to be in groups? I'm not saying I'm against there being some kind of break for managing to get people together, but if something like this is implemented, I'd rather see it be a sizable fee for one person, then go down as you gather more people.

Well, solo people don't have to build within a realm. There's lots of non-realm land.

[catsfuzz]

How about, for starting a realm, we make it similar to a guild system in most games.

Ex: You need 6 players, and 10 diamonds, to start a realm.
This would encourage people to join up with other players, versus going solo.

Intelli, I am sorry but no. For some people who like to venture deep into the wilderness on day one to start their realm don't want to have this in the way. Some people like to go off and get things started for other members when they come. I would quickly veto this idea if I were you because you are going to get a TON of anger from the community over this. It sounds like you are trying to limit the amount of realms that are created. How about that the realm has to be approved by a mod to be made. This could be on the forums or in game.

And on your non realm land thing. What about the people who hold a grudge and would come and try to destroy your settlement everyday.

'So all our stuff is stolen, our houses burned down, everyone else is dead, the food and water are lethally radioactive, and earth is about to plummet into the sun, but at least we have friendship!'

Keep realms limitless!

[Slicmi]

How about, for starting a realm, we make it similar to a guild system in most games.

Ex: You need 6 players, and 10 diamonds, to start a realm.
This would encourage people to join up with other players, versus going solo.

YES INTELLI!!!
I hate how there are so many 30x30 1 player realms. This system would encourage more community building instead of hiding from PVP all the time in small realms.

[snitalvixzon]

How about, for starting a realm, we make it similar to a guild system in most games.

Ex: You need 6 players, and 10 diamonds, to start a realm.
This would encourage people to join up with other players, versus going solo.

I think thats a little bit much, maybe make the players needed like 3 or 4. Some people don't like to have a lot of people in there realm.

[jailbird556]

How about, for starting a realm, we make it similar to a guild system in most games.

Ex: You need 6 players, and 10 diamonds, to start a realm.
This would encourage people to join up with other players, versus going solo.

YES INTELLI!!!
I hate how there are so many 30x30 1 player realms. This system would encourage more community building instead of hiding from PVP all the time in small realms.

Um have you ever seen what happens to those 30x30 1 person realms. They are created and barely last the night. People make and destroy realms all the time. Most of the realms are made by new people to the server. If they don't have a good time then they leave then there realms are destroyed. I have seen new people leave because lack of teleport functions and there wimpy realms get griefed to crap. I think that there should be a minimum of 2-3 people to make a realm that way there will be no 1 person realms. Building and expanding will happen faster. That way you also won't need a fee.

[Cheez99]

Um have you ever seen what happens to those 30x30 1 person realms. They are created and barely last the night. People make and destroy realms all the time. Most of the realms are made by new people to the server. If they don't have a good time then they leave then there realms are destroyed. I have seen new people leave because lack of teleport functions and there wimpy realms get griefed to crap. I think that there should be a minimum of 2-3 people to make a realm that way there will be no 1 person realms. Building and expanding will happen faster. That way you also won't need a fee.

This. However, I really, really hate the idea of having to have a certain number of people to create a realm. How do you even check for that on doing the /realm create command? If you have to enter the players' names, people could just enter in people who were on at the time. This is especially true now that we can be in more than one realm. You could always just deny the invite, but the spam would be annoying.

And with the diamonds. I would much rather it cost something like wood or iron. Yes they're common, but you don't build a town out of diamonds! You could make it cost both and then not remove the items from the player's inventory, the point being that they spent time working on the land, now they own it and want to build a house.

EDIT: Also, this.

Some people like to go off and get things started for other members when they come.

[dragoncrystal24]

Lets settle the member minimum at 3. Some people like only playing with people they know, and others just like having a small group. And 10 diamonds seems good, now that there's no danger of being attacked by a player while you mine

I also did like the /realm warp feature. It makes it able to have a central point of the realm, like a meeting place for new members. Although... I do like that the new members would have to WALK to the realm on their first join, they wouldn't just be able to teleport there. But I'd rather have the realm warp feature in the game.

@Cheez: maybe for the players, they could join the realms later. Maybe there would be a time limit, like: If you did not have 3 players within a week you realm will be destroyed. That allows for plenty of time for the other members to join, and also lets you build while you wait.

For the diamonds, I do think it should be this, if not an additional 32 wood and 32 stone. It forces you to have to WORK to build a realm, so you can't just spam realms everywhere.

[Cheez99]

I can settle for at least 3 members. That really sucks for the people wanting to go solo though, and I still hope Intelli doesn't implement this.

I still hate the founding with diamonds thing. It's going to put all of us in the air on the first day of release, and make it impossible for us to hit the ground running as far as realm expansion is concerned.

[dragoncrystal24]

like intelli said, solo people can just build anywhere they want to, theres plenty of free space. For the diamond founding thing, i would not like it if it didnt stop realms from being spammed at the beginning. Because you all know what it was like at the beginning of minerealm 2.0. Realms were constantly being created, destroyed, created, destroyed, griefed, spammed, and it was a mess for the first week. Doing this will slow down the rate of created realms, and make it very hard to spam, or box people in. It will make the player actually consider what they are doing.

[snitalvixzon]

I like the idea of having to have a certain amount of people to make a realm because if you have 3 people who want to make a realm they most likely want to see it through instead of just making it for the heck of it. However I do not like the idea of having to pay to make one, it might deter people from staying because they can't find diamonds or they keep getting robbed and it might take a while for them to get enough and they might be bored by the constant robbing that they just leave the server.