[mtndewzane]

Its quite simple, it'll be easy enough to jump from spawn to spawn, by walking just over half way to the next one and using the /spawn command.

But the rails do keep them busy, and if they want to do busy-work, then by all means, have at it!

The subways will be perfectly acceptable, and extremely useful for city-to-city transport. It's not like we can pick which spawn city we start at. They will essentially be our interstate system, and if you can tell me how those are obsolete then please do.

Its not busy work when it has a purpose for the community

[blackknight24]

Yes, when it has a TRUE purpose, then i agree wholeheartedly!


But this forum thread isnt about the rails, its about the wipe, and the rails is a minor part of the ramifications there in.

[kroxic]

I felt the best option for my opinion is to "wipe upon changing any features"

To be more clear on my stance, I think this should be done in the even of a MAJOR feature change. Only a feature that would make people want to rebuild because wit fundamentally changes the way they would use their structures(at this rate it appears Notch will never get there so my vote is likely "not wipe" in a practical sense)

I propose an alternative strategy for future transitions.
Allow users to register their realm for reset.....WITHOUT selling it.

Regarding the railway:
The only reason this is a problem with a map wipe is that we are a vanilla server(largely). If we do a wipe while save private realms, why can we not WorldEdit the railway back to the extent of completion that it was previously. Saving private "realms" is not vanilla either. We are after all dealing with issues created by a GAME update and NOT trying to alter the difficulty/experience of the game/build. In other words, if it was legitimately dug out once before, is it really cheating?

[BSGSamuel]

I'd say keep doing what you're going to do for 1.8, keep private realms, regenerate everything else. After 1.8 hits it's going to take some time before people have built up their cities and turned them into a spawn point. By the time people are done and need the railway we'll probably have already had the 1.9 update and you could put the railways on hold for a couple more weeks until final release.

Or maybe not implement any new spawnpoints until final release, that way railways won't be a necessity.

I'd rather not have a subway than wipe everything. Especially after 1.8, a lot of people are planning to create huge new towns. It would be a bit of a waste to wipe all of those after a couple of weeks.

[jailbird556]

I would want to see everything fair and even for the full game release. Permanant maps before then would potentially wreck updates.

[Quentijn]

Make the map permanent after 11/11/11

Make an entire new map, no realms saved, no rc saved, everyone back from scratch etc.

[Cogohst]

Make the map permanent after 11/11/11

Make an entire new map, no realms saved, no rc saved, everyone back from scratch etc.

This.

[Wxclm]

Make the map permanent after 11/11/11

Make an entire new map, no realms saved, no rc saved, everyone back from scratch etc.

yea this is the way to go...

[johnnklein]

I say wipe the map completely once a year, every year on the same date.

[jailbird556]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FAIL IDEA!!!!!