all looks organizes, but, you moved my shop! :P, im going to be annoying and refuse to move it as its right next to my other building, and its easy to find as its the galaxies weapons hub :P

tramp :P

Morning all,

And thanks very much to all who have cooperated so far! Amber Ridge is certainly on a sweet spot of terrain and is also one of the oldest cities on the server. Sprucing the place up a bit could help us gather more of the right kind of citizen and guild member. Even if it doesn't, I think that maximising what we already have is an end in itself.

Even though there are defunct structures belonging to dead accounts, I think that with a few strategic moves we can accomplish a great deal. We have already moved a few buildings that seemed out of place and I think that has started to make a difference.

Obviously the main town square is the most important part of AR - it's the first thing you see as you shuttle in and is actually quite imposing in my opinion. In order to make it even more so, I am gradually gathering the resources to make one of each of the various normal and exotic gardens that can be placed by the mayor. We'll put one of each at the bottom of the cliff behind city hall so that we can all see what they look like and venture preferences. A few of these in the main square and elsewhere could add a bit more bling and make the town look a bit more impressive than it already does.

Alien Square, for those who aren't familiar with it, is adjacent to Rom's museum, and is a bit of town history, with the old LxA guild hall at the other end. It's looking a bit sorry atm - Jib has been maintaining this all by himself, but I think it would be nice to preserve it and maybe even breathe some life back into it.

I think the most controversial idea so far is that Audie, Ivan and Waz move their small tat houses from the vicinity of City Hall. These are obviously prime spots and I'd be loathe to leave such a spot myself if I had it! I think the main issue here is these three small houses crowd the City Hall, which is the largest building opposite the shuttleport. Please try and imagine what City Hall would look like if flanked by something like exotic gardens, with that view over the cliff beyond them.

Having said that, I wouldn't want anyone to move to somewhere that they are unhappy with, and I know that Audie's and Ivan's shops are great assets to the town, and get a lot of custom and should therefore be in prominent places. I could be wrong though, and it could be that most members prefer those 3 houses left where they are - please speak up if you have opinions either way! It may be worth considering moving these two shops onto Alien Square, which would certainly breathe life back into it - perhaps with a nice garden plonked in the middle. I know this may seem that this is a relegation into the suburbs but, actually, Alien Square is right next to the shuttleport, and two very active shops would make it much more than a relic. Alternatively we could find new spots on the main square for these shops, which would involve a minor reshuffle of some of the municipal structures (garage etc).

I think we should consider this an ongoing project, as there are a few horribly-placed houses that belong to folk who have either left, or log on infrequently. People do return, however, and I believe there will be another house packup event soonish, which would allow us to deal with those few houses.

Above all, this is everyone's city, and the last thing I want to do is tread on anyone's toes so, if it looks like that is happening, please let me know!

Over the next week or so, I anticipate a few buildings moving around a bit - please keep your eye on the layout of the city and speak up if there is anything you don't like, or any ideas/requests you may have!

/endbabble

my mediums are moved across, and all my smalls are in a block, cept 1 I used for lining up purposes, but I will move that too soon.

A bunck of gardens are now at the base of the cliff, so check them out and let us know what you like / dont like.

Thank you for your effort, I think it will make city really more beautiful. I sure would move my bunker as you show in your plan. What I saw in another city (dont remember where) was a big fountain in the middle of the main square. This impressed me even more because it was on Tat where water is rare. It very much remembers me of the main square of some Arabian cities, where water fountains also show the wealth of the cities.

As already said, there are a bunch of gardens placed randomly at the bottom of the cliff south of AR by the race droid.

Pleas take a chance to look at these and let us know what ones you like and think would look good where / why etc.

If we moved the Cantina and the shuttle it would actually be a squre,  put the shuttle  smack bacng in the middle :P

Not a idea on the layout but for this thread. Maybe you could use this site. http://www.tiny.cc to reduce the URL size

-- Edited by Martijn at 17:29, 2007-08-13

ah - maybe I misunderstood Audie. Shuttle in middle of SIDE of the square, not the square itself. This is where it is now, and I think it should stay.

Realise Theatre cannot move so moving it is in none of the plans. However, if we can get hold of Tale, we can move the medical centre, then the cantina into that slot to make the central square more 'square', with the shuttle in the middle of the north side, opposite the town hall.

Jib - you see the PM I sent you?

~Z~

I have been contacted by Rahoih (guild -RTF-) asking about moving to Amber Ridge.
He has a couple of Generic PA halls he would be bringing with him.
I have told him to contact Pen with regard to this as I am unlikely to be in game before early next week, and Pen and Zach are the city layout gurus :D

So expect some contact re this.

cya soooooon

Now that Y'Cal has logged in and moved his houses (thanks man) next on my priority list for moves is Einia (bunker) and Tale (Medic Centre)

Can anyone contact either of these and ask them to log in and contact me? They may have more properties that could do with moving too.....

Also, there are numerous other structures ruining the grand scheme of things - will post a longer list here in case anyone knows anything.

~Z~

oh - and Jib, come back soon! need some spaces on Alien Square freed up, and want to start playing with gardens! (unless we can vote Gellan for Mayor) :P

Yah ! Gellan for mayor (ducks for cover)

i don t know if tale still got his acount
but i will send him a mail  and ask if he got time for doing that
didnt spoke to him for a year now so dunno if he
anwser so wiil see :)

zach wrote:

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Here is a list of houses we'd like to get moved, if at all possible.

If anyone knows any of these characters and/or can contact them, please do, or let me or Pendarric know. The current window of players being able to log in free without re-subscribing is the ideal time to track these people down!

Sizzle - tents in main square  Not seen Sizzle for years, will check last known location(romizzi was already trying i think)
Sikki/Ewelab - large house in area behind KS Guildhall
Tale - medical centre Gy send a mail but no reply yet.
Faye - small house in block of mediums
Nixy - medium house where we want to put a garden Will msn her, or ask Marrt if  hes had contact recently?
Rasner/Vlad - large house in block of mediums
Nixy+Oblivius+Don'rol - small houses where we want to put Tat. Guildhalls  Oblivius is an alt.. dunno whos
Ewelab - factory where we want to put Tat. Guildhalls
Kh'aris+Borgen+Cazie - small houses where we want to put bunkers
"La Fortezza"+MnN+"two foxes"+rom - bunkers where we want to move Gen. Guildhalls 2 foxes is bmf?  Rom is romizzi :P
Ec-udrow+Amia+Audrie+Betth+"Abode of Awaken"+Amber shop - where we want to put Gen Guildhalls (realise some of these have now moved already)
Devon+Waro - Tat. Guildhalls where we want to put Gen. Guildhalls (Been waiting for available space before asking Waro to move)
O'Layin - small at bottom of cliff
Claralara - large at bottom of cliff
Elrica/Alanna - medium at bottom of cliff
Naschimento - Tat. Guildhall in new square behind mall Norok is pplaying WoW and youll have to wait for house purge to get rid of his stuff, half of his houses went last time
Einia - bunker in new square behind mall  try getting him on myspace
Rebor - 2x small houses in new square behind mall hes the guy who resubbed for a month and then cancelled, he very rarely pops onto the forums, so a PM from here might do the trick

~Z~
Town Planner :P

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-- Edited by alastrina at 19:44, 2007-08-23

Ec-udrow+Amia+Audrie+Betth+"Abode of Awaken"+Amber shop this about the large or the med house for amia :D can be moved when ever u want as its mine.

Devon+Waro - Tat. Guildhalls Devons account is canceld but i can reactive (if the return thingie is free ) as i have the login :D