As most of you know I have had alot of time to look over and re-think alot of things in our city. A player run city in its most basic form is a community. That is what we have always strived for in our city. As times change alot of old things and old ways of doing things and looking at them have become null and void. Our city needs to step into this new UO and build off of that. I have come up with some solutions on things that make parts of a city.

Want: Guilds and players like to live in a city.

Problem: They want 16x16-18x18 homes.

Solution: They dont have to own the building we can build it for them on extra plots so they dont have to waste an account.

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Want: Stores and Establishments.

Problem: They want NPC vendors and to own the store but want an 16x16-18x18. Also our city doesnt want 5,000 NPC pure luna white clothing vendors.

Solution: Open small player run stores on plots that Roleplayers can use.

These are the two basic things of what im looking at that our city lacks and what made player run cities of 1998-2000 great places to be.

We can still have what we use to have but, it will be different. We have to do alot of the work to make them want to even come to our city. By giving them space on a plot for their guilds establishment or a single players establishment or embassy we provide a guild or player with something they cannot do on their own in our city.

If establishments arnt working then try to change the way you run them or even start over from scratch. We have had alot of establishments in PaxOkus times that just didnt work....so they blew up in big meteor showers or under earth explosions

What I am doing on my end is:

Building Demolishing the red Light Tavern and moving it to the RLT Tournament Hall as a smaller building.

Why? I can hardly get the Blue Light Tavern running that has its own plot so why in the heck have two taverns take up waay to much space?!?!?!

The Plot The plot will be split in half and given to two guilds or people that wish to build an establishment. They go to test do the plot size give to them on the house take pictures and I build it for them.

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Building Demolishing The Old RLT Tournament Hall

Why? Open spot that can be used for other players and guilds.

The Plot The plot will be split in half and given to two guilds or people that wish to build an establishment. They go to test do the plot size give to them on the house take pictures and I build it for them.

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Building Moving the City Council building to its own plot with the rune library, Mayors office and Deputys.

Why? City Council building doesnt need to take up the 3rd largest house plot in the city.

The Plot The new RLT gambling Nights will be held their with three new small stores to rent along with the Red light Tavern


As of now on those three plots that give us 4 new establishments run by 4 different people or guilds. Plus Three new stores (RP) THUS building our city community larger.
That is what I am working on with the limited amount of things I can do right now.

If you have any questions or more ideas or comments please post and get some talks going. Our city has great people with LOTS of creative ideas and I would love to see some on the forums.

Great ideas, Gareth. I admire your generosity in letting others use your plots in the city for their own buildings. I hope it will work.

Do we know where Neo is? It would be wonderful to be able to put his house back into use other than for the auditorium. I miss the post office!