Guildcity - Tell me your preference for Section number

[Straf]

Personally I'd like to see the inner parts mapped, at least everything within the wall. It wouldn't make sense for it not to be contiguous if there's a wall around it.

I've been thinking about the evolution of a city. It would be beneficial to have a tavern or something on the road into a city, a resting place for traveling traders. Far enough away to be of benefit of course - perhaps to catch those arriving around curfew time. On the way out it would be people selling goods and supplies for on the road, but it would be cheaper than in the city. It would have to be for the incentive to buy. The further out along the spokes the less costly the goods and services. Of course the less law and order so you takes your risks. Some areas along the road would 'balloon' faster than others and may expand enough to meet other expanding bits. I think a city, from the hub outwards, evolves not in a linear fashion from the centre but in a sort of concentric circle of sorts of different settlements that gradually merge into each other.

[Mouse]

Hey Southern Crane

J.Edward is talking about the records he keeps to show who is doing what district. Its the map that shows the districts and names the people mapping them. He will put your name on that map as soon as he has time to do so. You don't have to do anything else.

The base map for your district will be inside that zip folder you downloaded. J.Edward recommends enlarging it 4 x to work on it comfortably so that you aren't struggling against everything being a bit too tiny, and then probably reducing the renders a bit to upload them to your WIP thread when you start one.

If you need to know how to start your WIP thread I put all the details in the FAQ Thread (the link to which is in my signature below), and if you just want to look at all the threads that are already in progress to see how other people have presented their work, you can see them all here

Don't worry if you make a mistake. Most things can be put right without too much trouble, and in any case you wouldn't be the first

[J.Edward]

Thanks Mouse
I thought I would add that the remaining inner city sections, those inside the city wall, are sections 4, 6, 16, 24, and 28.
Then some of the ones closest to the city wall but outside of it are sections 19, 20, and 22.
I guess we would try to fill those up before making any new sections outside the city... like things down the road and such.
There are 18 total sections left not already claimed by someone. That's more than I would have thought.

[Mouse]

I think we got a bit tangled up with the Awards and sank a bit in popularity - which was only fair, since we had been drowning the Challenges and just about everything else on the Activity Stream before that. Having said that, however, we are still gathering new team members - up from about 20 to about 35 since we started mapping

If all who are currently in on the project decide to map a second district to try out things they didn't have room to try in their fist map, there might be quite a scrum in the second round, since there are currently not enough to go around! LOL! There will of course be several who don't want a second district, so it might even balance out quite nicely

[Mouse]

John - in case you were wondering, and despite what I said about not wanting to map a district next door to the one I already have, I've been eyeing up District 15. That's a very provisional thought, though, since someone else might particularly want that one as their own first map before much longer, and there may yet be Guild City mappers who object to the idea of anyone having more than one section. I'd rather be content with just the one district if there are any objections

[J.Edward]

I need to rectify a small section on 15, for whoever takes it
I had forgotten a section inside the walls and need to add it... maybe it is called section 15.28
Section 15.28.jpg

[Mouse]

Or you could call the whole section 15+ (upgraded)

[J.Edward]

I could... it would be a nice large section for someone

[Mouse]

I think... I'm going to have to find a distraction for myself to let everyone else have a think about it.

I will have finished Atlas Ward in another couple of hours... if you don't mind the rather large rock I've made of the orphanage!

(and if its wrong just say so - I won't be offended)

[Falconius]

I don't know why you're reluctant to take another section, there is plenty to go round. But in any case the goal is to get it all filled in, that only happens by people taking more sections after they are finished.