I'll probably be back on playing next week, I've been going through Dawnguard as a vampire at the moment. I have some ideas for new towns and the like that will probably make use of the undeveloped land to the northwest.
Also what's the deal with the capital? I'd be willing to lend a hand with that, but I don't know what sort of architecture or functional buildings we're after.
i would like some help with it actually, i was hoping to get retro to build the walls, and i would also like a few other people to take a canton and build stuff on them. The only restrictions i would have would be that they cannot use the following materials as part of the exterior; any nether blocks (glow stone is acceptable), no marble, no sand or sandstone, no obsidian. its meant to be a large city so ideally each canton would have tall multi tiered structures. the center canton will be the royal palace, the 8 middle rind cantons will be composed of 4 residential cantons and 4 specialized cantons (For guilds or what ever) the outer rings will be mostly gardens, markets, and military structures. then beyond the cantons, on the coast of the inner ring of the bay, will be additional housing of low density variety. as well as additional services like blacksmiths, Inns and so on.
Keep in mind that Vanilla and Bukkit tend not to be as resource-intensive as a Forge-modded server, and the real test for the Third World will be around 8-11 players on at the same time scattered across the map. Getting Ultimate running and stable with the general population will be the bigger challenge.
we had 7 people on at one point last night, we were all fairly scattered. me on my island, juice and soda on the mooshroom island, justin way up north. and im not sure where vidicus and his friend were. In addition to that i was doing stuff like spamming /back, ignited over 2 stacks worth of tnt (justin said there was a slight stutter at that point), made a giant sand pillar without it glitching me off.
my question is, are we planning to set up the ultimate and put it on the vps too to see how the server handles both? because that would be important to know and the next step in testing it i believe.