Guild City

[Mouse]

I'm still sort of waiting to hear back from Robbie about a thumbnail scraper issue, but I think we are going to try to go ahead with this.
I do still need to find out about where I am going to be housing this. My thought is to have it in the area where Guildworld is,
but it needs a separate area so we can have a thumbnail scraper for it and that requires Robbie to move things or create a separate space.

As to the layout and the nature of the city...
We can do it a number of different ways, depending on total number of participants.
I tend to like more organic layouts rather than grids, but grids do allow easier additions and changes.
I'll also add - maybe if we did a grid just right.. maybe it could work out really well. Who knows.
We can discuss the merits and decide what people would prefer. A good discussion of people's opinions on this would be appreciated.

I also like melting pots and can easily see how many types of beings could live in a large city with many styles of architecture.
I can also appreciate Bogie's point too. Here again, I am ok with going with the group opinion.

If a non-flat city is desired, then we would need to really plan that out well in advance.
It's doable, but just has to be sort of planned early on I think.

Its really good of you to work with us on this despite how busy you must be with life and the Annual Awards. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say we are very grateful for your help and guidance.

I would much prefer you to be the project leader here and make the final decisions, as you are already an acknowledged master in the art of city mapping - though I don't mind bouncing along in the background doing the support work for you if you would be kind enough to take up the leadership role - especially in light of the fact that you already had this idea before me

[Josiah VE]

I would prefer that everyone gets to do their own rendition. Maybe a 2 or 3 month challenge.
If it was everyone doing one part, how would the layout be decided?

[DarkInfinity]

Yes, that is what I was getting at as far as the blocks/districts.

I just put all four directions for the roads to make it kinda look like a compass rose, because I'm a nerd and I think of corny things like that.

[Mouse]

My apologies Josiah!

I got swept away by the community project idea, and forgot to think of people who had voted before the thread went that way.

If we went back to doing this as a drawn out challenge I would say that it might take about 4 months. Merelan City took me 4 months, but I had a couple of major setbacks along the way.

The layout of the group project idea is what we were discussing, and I think that J.Edward (or whoever would be looking at trying to fit the jigsaw together near the end) would be the one to make the final decision.

[J.Edward]

When people are saying 'challenge', what do they mean? Do they want a competition between each other, like normal monthly challenges?
Are they wanting to map the whole Guild City? Is that what is being thought of?
I know it started with the word challenge, but then drifted into the community thing.
And I may have pushed that, not sure. I am trying to understand what is being expected.

[ChickPea]

I saw it as a co-operative, community project, much like GuildWorld was last year. I believe Mouse's original idea was a regular or lite challenge, but my thought was that it had grown from there.

My tuppence worth, anyway.

[ThomasR]

I'd rather have a friendly time than a competition. Just like Guildworld (in which my country will someday emerge from the mists of my desk ...).

[Mouse]

I started this thread thinking purely of a straightforward Challenge, but as the hours ticked by I was struck by how exciting it would be to do it as a community thing - and also how impossible it was going to be to draw anything but a rushed city in the space of a month.

It never even occurred to me to ask for an extended Challenge until Josiah spoke up.

Maybe there is room for both - an extended individual Challenge, and a community project? (Though not necessarily both at exactly the same time, of course).

[Josiah VE]

Confusion ensues.

Any ideas as to what the design might look like? Will it have places and things named after community leaders and prominent members or something? Or will it just be a cool city?

[Mouse]

I started to compile a list of main features up in comment 59 above, thinking to include in each district at least one point of interest, so that no one had to map a whole page of houses, or warehouses, or whatever. Variety in all maps

People interested in the community project can add to that list by making suggestions, as DarkInfinity and Jo already have, though of course if you have a neat idea about a street name that you would rather keep to yourself for use on your own map - be it a whole city or part of a community project - then no one will fault you for keeping it back, and the rest of us can have a giggle when we see the joke that you've made. I'm really rather hoping to see quite a lot of humorous pictorial anecdotes - whichever way this idea goes