[size=200]Spawn Renewal Project[/size]
[color=#FF0000][size=150]Sunday, November 9th.[/size][/color]
After much discussion and debate, Arcane Staff has finally agreed that this Sunday, November 9th, will be our official Spawn Renewal Project Day. This will be a community event where everyone will get to participate in tearing down abandoned elements of our beloved spawn so that we may rejuvenate it and upgrade it.
The official (tentative) hours will be from 12pm to 6pm, US East time (6pm to 12am for us Europeans).
Myself and KhuzdBuzd will be leading the on-the-ground logistics, although all of the staff will be actively supervising the project.
Over the next week we will be discussing at length here on the forums the plan with you all, taking in your inputs and assistance. I will be starting separate threads where we can discuss individual components of the project.
Tearing Down
We will be tearing down abandoned and unfinished buildings that are scattered throughout spawn. This includes shacks, lone farms, paths to nowhere, and simple square houses.
We will be keeping aesthetically pleasing and iconic builds whose owners have long abandoned us, while also discussing which finished builds around spawn should be taken down due to a variety of reasons. We will spend the next week marking out the houses to be torn down with Dirt towers and a sign saying “Abandoned, Incomplete”, and also marking builds which are Abandoned, complete, but a number of players feel they should be removed. These builds will be up for debate in the relevant forum thread.
Details about how to tear down buildings and redistribute the broken down parts will be announced as Sunday approaches.
Assignment of Spawn Districts
Sunday won’t just be about tearing down, but also rebuilding our spawn. A separate thread will be started to discuss ideas about what community builds/districts we should include in our new spawn. Whether it’s relocating certain builds, re-building, or making new ones, it will all be up for discussion there.
Due to the high interest in this topic, the future of farms will also be a separate thread. Here we will discuss which farms are to be moved/removed, and where they are to be relocated. Please be civil.
Here is a rough border of the area being covered. Please let me know if you believe it misses parts or unnecessarily includes others: imgur.com/bGioo0h
Thanks for reading, and check the other threads for specifics!
[size=150]IMPORTANT![/size]
Besides marking out buildings, absolutely no tearing down activities are allowed until Sunday. Anyone caught tearing down builds without staff permission before Sunday will be accused of griefing and therefore be banned, despite how obvious of a tear down it was.