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BoardsTown 2.0 - potential layout for discussion
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18-06-2011 12:20PM#1This is an idea I had for layout. A lot more interesting than a plain old grid and can be expanded as much as we like.
I propose that the individual hexagons be plots which gives a bit more freedom to be creative with your home
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Please thank the plan you like best and that'll help us decide what we'll end up doing - it might even be a mash-up of all the suggestions 3
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Hexegons is a great idea for plots.
Just to throw another idea (so we can have a little choice. ), I slapped this together:
The shape doesn't really matter. It's the basic design that would be similar to a castle. In the centre would be some sort of communal keep. This could be for the spawn, shop(s), a train station, or where various statues or user constructs can be built.
Around that is a moat/canal. Then there's a housing section for the admin which would be slightly bigger than the standard users plots (kind of like it's denoting status on the server). This is surrounded by a wall and another moat/canal.
Then there's the standard users plots. And again there's a wall and a moat/canal. If even more users join then subsequent sections can be added to the surrounding area.
This is based on the standard medievel castles that you'd find around europe. You could forgo the walls and keep the canals for a kind of Amsterdam effect.0 -
As I said, the shape doesn't really matter. The below example is the same basic idea except that instead of each zone surrounding another one, it's done in a linear fashion with the keep at the back and areas building outwards in one direction.
This idea could be cool if the town was being built around a hill/mountain and we weren't going to flatten the land, just build with the contours.0 -
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Here's a crappy little drawing that I did in a rush to show my idea. I decided to take both ideas into account but also trying to keep it as simple as possible for people and their plots.
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/townv.jpg/
So The central area is going to be the Central Business District. This will be an open area for building the shops, central bank etc (all the main community buildings) This area would be surrounded by a moat and would be accessible from 4 sides using the 4 main bridges. In the center of this area would be the park idea that was proposed by Shiminay. (Fountain, trees and all that green crap :P)
Outside this main area I wanted to keep it quite simple. The X's mark a rough idea of where some plots might be located.
This idea is also quite expandable. You can in some respects just keep adding rings on to the CBD when the server expands.
Rough idea, discuss what areas to keep and what to change
Ps... PAINT FTW!
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Here's a crappy little drawing that I did in a rush to show my idea. I decided to take both ideas into account but also trying to keep it as simple as possible for people and their plots.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/townv.jpg/
So The central area is going to be the Central Business District. This will be an open area for building the shops, central bank etc (all the main community buildings) This area would be surrounded by a moat and would be accessible from 4 sides using the 4 main bridges. In the center of this area would be the park idea that was proposed by Shiminay. (Fountain, trees and all that green crap :P)
Outside this main area I wanted to keep it quite simple. The X's mark a rough idea of where some plots might be located.
This idea is also quite expandable. You can in some respects just keep adding rings on to the CBD when the server expands.
Rough idea, discuss what areas to keep and what to change
Ps... PAINT FTW!
Looks good, filling in the ditches with water is probably the most difficult bit of that.
On the plus side, each expansion increases the available space geometrically.0 -
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Here's something I thought up of.
Sorry for the size, but I did it one pixel = one block, so I guess zoom in to see it properly.
This is what it would look like after a long time (400 plots right there), just to show how it would expand.
Centre area for community stuff, with moat and walls around it and some bridges to let you access it.
Circular houses? I dunno, could change easily.0 -
Imperial City Schematic
The Elder Scrolls' Imperial City but with surrounding housing districts as per Humanji's post?
It has a lot of what we need already built in! Arena, garden, church / temple / monuments district, market district that can be extended with secondary markets in Talos Plaza / Arboretum districts.
I also propose the central district be devoted to Admin's / Mod's plots, with a central tower called AdminCastle.
(I've always wanted to call a place AdminCastle :pac:)
Spawn can be outside the city near a sewer entrance, with metro running in the sewers 0 -
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pablomakaveli wrote: »Something like the layout of the Imperial City in Oblivion might be worth considering too. We could have the green area in the centre or maybe a large town hall and different districts expanding out in a circle.
In b4 u
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BlandKitten wrote: »And idiots rarely differ.
And what's more identical than finishing quotes for each other? 0 -
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BlandKitten wrote: »AdminCastle shall become a reality, at the expense of all else ¬.¬
MUHAHAHA (Ignore the terrible music)
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people need to be really careful about plots that are not situated at a 90 deg angle. If you remember that this game is all about blocks... so buildings are very difficult to build on a plot that is at an angle.
Circular towns look great but you need to be very careful when thinking about plot layout.
Circular towns are easy. There's no need to curve the buildings, just place each plot at a staggered interval equivalent to the curve it would have taken. Or just build the town as a square, but shift the walls in / make the fringe or corner districts larger to allow for a door into the centre.
Or we can build Ebonheart
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