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The town being built is named OshiuS, for reference. PirateShip is also on the island, somewhere.

This area will be a new island accessable through some a port in Oshius. I'm hoping for a ferry from Tolnedra harbour.

The Reef

The reef will not have much to do with the area itself, but I'm hoping to eventually add a mer-area that will be accessable somehow. This area will be located in/by the reef. This is why the area is named what it is.

-- DevonScarfe - 09 Sep 2003

Log on your Builder character and type "help proposal". Your missing such things as a map, specific numbers of mobs, armours, weapons, rooms, and a list of special objects etc. that you can't build with the blob. This way it will make it easier to read and understand your area and what your intending to do.

-- EmbeR - 09 Sep 2003

It seems you are in the process of building a large area - no complaints at all from me on that.

Lets add a few things to the design at this stage tho because they have a long term effect.

We need:

• A layout of the island with major features marked. Little detail need be added for areas outside the current town - it seems unlikely that there ARE any other towns/villages but on such a small island there is usually a mountain of some kind - after all this island is the peak of a volcano however extinct.
  • For the most part this island is unexplored. i.e. You might see a large mountain in the distance. -- DevonScarfe - 09 Sep 2003
    • That does not mean that the island does not exist - it still exists there is just no habitation. At this time you need only draw the rough island outline and mark the mountain, river and township on it. Other things can become apparent as you continue to develop your island but at least they then have a context to fit into. -- FantoM - 09 Sep 2003
    • Take a look at tools on http://www.irony.com/webtools.html if you want a quick way of making an island map.
• A town requires fresh water, so you need to include streams and realistically the reef town would be on one of these.
  • This has been added. -- DevonScarfe - 09 Sep 2003
• The town is not going to grow and change over time - at least I don't think it should because none of the rest of tharsis does. What will change is the amount of it that you have coded. So when you design your town map design it for the final version and only implement part of it at this stage.
  • Even though it sounds like a lot of work, I want this to be an area I continue working on over time. I will redo any rooms needed to be redone when true updates occur. These will not be too frequent. Also, there isn't any reason to set out entire towns as that's not really how they are done. As soon as I draw a map that large I will have lost intrest in the area. This way I can continue keeping it fresh as well as have project that might interest other builders. -- DevonScarfe - 09 Sep 2003
    • You ignored my comment. I didn't say that this was a town being founded and growing over time - I said it was a town that existed and which you were coding in TG over time. The rest of TG is a snapshot of a world at a particular time. This shouldn't really be any different. I didn't say you had to map out the entire town at this time. You need to map out the bit you are going to code at this time with a view to what else exists. IE the map of the town of Tolnedra. Puma has sections of the map which don't exist at this time - and he just marks those sections as a basic area with a single word description - "Slums" for example. -- FantoM - 09 Sep 2003

-- FantoM - 09 Sep 2003

My apologies on the last section. I misunderstood part of the MUD due to reading another outdated section of the twiki board.

I am wondering how I could perhaps introduce sections of this area at a time. Right now I want the ? on the map to be blocked off somehow...Perhaps I could literally say that due to the state of the road or construction "You (the player) can not proceed"?

• This would be fine - in fact it was what I meant - you do rough layout of the whole town and then develop it in parts with excuses as to why the players can't enter the undeveloped bits. -- FantoM - 09 Sep 2003

-- DevonScarfe - 09 Sep 2003

Ok...

For right now there is a road block of some kind going to the east in the NE ? on the map. The southern two ? will be roads in disrepair at the moment. I will think up some kind of desc in the relavent rooms preventing people from going there...

The Town

As for the rest of the town, it's relatively minor. The docks will be expanded into a full harbour. The south side of the town runs into a wall of rock that is the island-mountain. The town will have a harbourtower/lighthouse (very similar to Tolnedra's actually, except smaller). The town will have no true guards.

The Island

The island is relatively large, but the only easily accessible parts are the coastline. Most of the inland (exceptions will be added eventually) is thick forest with heavy undergrowth. Therefor, the coastline will perhaps have another small settlement/area on the other side of the island. I'm leaving leeway for other builders to have areas to build onto.

Anything I forget?

-- DevonScarfe - 09 Sep 2003

In my opinion it would be better to actually build a small village and leave it at that. Developing it into a small town with time seems like some waste of work, it would be better then to have one village AND one small town instead of removing the village after a while.

Perhaps the map could also be a bit less 'squary/blocky'...

-- PumaN - 09 Sep 2003

The squareness isn't really an issue in my opinion, as this area will be added to in time. Special features will be added in other parts of the town. I intend to add on special features/areas within the town itself. This town is going to (if things go well) be about a fourth the size of Tolnedra - decent sized, but not too large to build. The mountain and reef are what are going to be extra special places for this area.

IMPORTANT I need/want builders to propose projects that can be put around on the island. Suggestions:

• Under the extinct volcano (maybe not?) there is some monster's lair.
  • How about a miners cave/caves? Give the players something less familiar to look at. That could be an on going project you could branch off.
    • This could be used to start the process of providing people with the means to obtain metal-based alchemy reagents and metal used in crafting - as well as the normal mining for gold and gems. -- FantoM - 12 Sep 2003
• The sea has a washed up PirateShip now inhabited by pirate ghost (This is being done by BlazE)
• A forest on the side of the mountain inhabited by...?
• A lighthouse is needed (This is being done by BlazE)
• Sections of the docks need to be done. The docks are going to be pretty large, so you can make 4-6 room sections if you wish.

- DevonScarfe - 10 Sep 2003

Note about picture: This picture needs to be rotated 90 degrees clockwise to make sense. Oshius is to the northwest of the island, not to the south. I can't rotat very easily for some reason on my computer.

• Done...okay, I didnt care about the text, lean your heads to the side... ;) -- PumaN - 29 Sep 2003

Reef Island picture:

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Attachment:	Action:	Size:	Date:	Who:	Comment:
ReefIsland.png	action	3705	11 Sep 2003 - 10:46	FantoM	Reef Island picture
ReefIsland2.png	action	4372	29 Sep 2003 - 10:43	PumaN