[jeniansmom]

Option 3
I believe that structures in public realms should be preserved, and are a strong part of the servers identity and heritage.

I was using the random teleporter recently to look for dungeons. One of the places I was taken to was amazing. It looked like an old guild had disbaned There was serveral buildings and quite a lot of other work in teraforming and road, etc. I though, this would be a tragedy if it was griefed or lost. I made a note of the coords, and moved on. I would like to eventually buy these realms to preserve them. I fear a public land wipe would erase them forever.

There are some cool things that it would be sad to lose. There is also a _lot_ of crap.
(I know that there would be more crap again relatively soon if there was a pubic land wipe, at one point awhile ago Intelli mentioned something about finding a way to make it easier for staff to allow players to clean up abandoned builds, I'm really interested to read more about this)

I've been mulling over the idea of a sort of land bank for awhile, I wonder if there would be enough interest?

It would work something like this:

There would be a land bank committee that would decide on how the land bank funds were spent (which realms to purchase) though any player could suggest realms to be purchased.
Players would donate credits to the land bank fund (Intelli would you be willing to allow the donations to be made tax free?)

The problem lies with who would the credits be donated to? One player would have to be the leader of the land bank and would have to keep the land bank credits separate from their own credits. It would have to be someone trustworthy and also someone who's not going to go inactive or all the land bank realms would just become public again. (Unless Intelli would allow and be willing to code something that would allow the donations to go to some internal game account and be used to purchase realms by the leader(s) of the land bank committee)

[DarelleZindad]

Public wipe doesnt sound too bad as long as players who don't own the realm they are building on won't lose their builds, chests and invested work.
I own quite some realms and there is no public land around there that I need to stay as is, but if I was new on the server I'd hate to have my work vanish just because I'm not rich enough to buy the land.
I can offer temporary place to live on for those who want to start anew after the wipe.

About adding more land - if you do it, plz do it on the south side of the world this time!

[maddiepix]

Well, the only problem with a public land wipe for me is that I'm currently working on a few realms that are in public until i can save up at least 100k to buy them all. So, if this were to happen, I think people should have a say in which realms shouldn't be wiped (or something to the sort) as lots of new players also have houses in public since they haven't saved enough credits to buy a realm yet. I really do think we should wipe certain parts of the map though, but maybe what we could do is wipe the realms that haven't been touched in a certain amount of time (if that's even possible). I do believe the terrain has an effect on which new players stay and go, though.

I believe if there is a map wipe players should be able to reserve public realms thus making sure they will not be wiped. I have a build on one realm, but up top it extends onto three public realms, and it would be a shame if this was wiped.

Make a note of this please Intelli!

Maybe something like /realmreserve could be implanted if something like this were to happen.

[Cowboy]

I see a few people suggesting a wipe of only the wilderness. Unfortunately, from the current snapshots this solution will not be adequate. Unlike the last biome update, this one adds many new biomes some of which like mesa appear infrequently. If the wilderness was the only thing wiped, it's likely we will not get some of the new biomes. Furthermore, players (myself included ) are only going to rush in and pillage out the new resources (i.e. podzol, packed ice and horse armor) then leave. Within a month or two the wild will be mostly abandoned once again.

Most players seem to agree that public realms should be occasionally wiped. I also believe this would be the best solution. However, I think as others have suggested we should have the ability to "flag" our private realms to be wiped with the update if we so choose. On top of this, I suggest that after the map update we have a 30 day grace period to sell our realms at full value to the server. This would allow people who own many realms to decide whether to keep them or let them go in case they end up in undesired biomes.

Yes, it would be sad to see some of these abandoned cities/builds be wiped, but honestly sometimes we need to let things go and not horde . I believe the next update will bring an influx of new players and some old. If we don't have a healthy amount of new biomes to be explored and inhabited, they likely won't stay around very long.

So to reiterate my main points.
-Public land wipe.
-Ability to flag private realms wipeable for the map update.
-30 days to sell realms back to the server for 10k.

Perhaps in cases such as maddie's. A thread with special requests could be made to preserve certain public realms.

[DerDarz]

I'd rather like a public wipe with the idea from TeeJay to give private realms free to wipe too, than a total new map and start all over again.

The /wipeable comand TJ was talking about, is a great idea and is just for this wipe only and not a permanent comand.

I'm playing now for almost 2 years and worked quite my butt off for some nice things i really dont wanna lose that easy. Because of that i wouldnt say "OK" for a full wipe and when i look on the map i would say there are more ppl who would like to keep there precious buildings too.

I also like the idea for the preview on the new map, so maybe we could vote among about 3-7 maps.

Anyway, I believe in Intelli and therefore won't judge him for any decision he will make.

[DerDarz]

something just went wrong :S that should have been a replay on http://minerealm.com/community/viewtopi ... =7&t=14763

i'll try to fix it ^^

[DerDarz]

I'd rather like a public wipe with the idea from TeeJay to give private realms free to wipe too, than a total new map and start all over again.

The /wipeable comand TJ was talking about, is a great idea and is just for this wipe only and not a permanent comand.

I'm playing now for almost 2 years and worked quite my butt off for some nice things i really dont wanna lose that easy. Because of that i wouldnt say "OK" for a full wipe and when i look on the map i would say there are more ppl who would like to keep there precious buildings too.

I also like the idea for the preview on the new map, so maybe we could vote among about 3-7 maps.

Anyway, I believe in Intelli and therefore won't judge him for any decision he will make.

[Puged]

I'm all for public land wipe... But I just realized (And I'm not sure if someone brought this up) that the subway gets pretty destroyed with public land wipes.

[AriAllen]

Public wipe doesnt sound too bad as long as players who don't own the realm they are building on won't lose their builds, chests and invested work.
I own quite some realms and there is no public land around there that I need to stay as is, but if I was new on the server I'd hate to have my work vanish just because I'm not rich enough to buy the land.
I can offer temporary place to live on for those who want to start anew after the wipe.

About adding more land - if you do it, plz do it on the south side of the world this time!

the problem is.... some people on public have the same thing

[dlgn]

The way this poll is going, it looks like I'm going to have to somehow acquire several hundred thousand credits to buy up my surrounding area with *sigh*. My biggest problem with a public land wipe is that, essentially, it would be a whole new map with about 10% of the old one transplanted onto it. I like our current map. I like jumping down off the hill near my house in the pursuit of a creeper, exploring the abandoned houses of Old Vortex, helping artraf transform a certain giant public build he acquired into a base he can use. I know my land, and I know the builds on it. The same is true for many of you. It would be a terrible shame if it were all destroyed.

Personally I favor a wilderness wipe; the staff could try out a number of different seeds until they found one that was appropriate...not to mention that this was the wilderness's stated purpose, and hasn't got anything terribly important in it as a consequence.

A map expansion would be wonderful, but obviously it would be either laggy or expensive, and create a precedent that Intelli might not want to encourage. If people would be willing to donate for an upgrade to support a map extension, it might be possible, but I don't know that enough people favor that suggestion enough to give up their money, and I don't know that Intelli would find such a course of action ideal.

~dlgn