Community Project Suggestion: Shopping Mall :)
OK, 'tis only a suggestion, but one of the NA servers has, I think, seven T4 consigners in one community, allowing for lots of items to be put up for sale in a single location. So, how about we see if we can manage something similar?
The benefits of this are:
1) The plot owners who end up being chosen to host the consigners get the community building them.
2) T4 consigners accept 20 stacks per person, instead of Kion's 10. 5 T4 consigners would give you the option to list up to 100 different items.
Obviously this will require a lot of planning, organisation and coordination between plot owners. So, I'll put forward some ideas and conditions, and see what happens...
Criteria 1: Location, Location, Location
For this project, we will aim to get multiple T4 consigners in a place that doesn't require 17 ports, or a 3 mile hike, to reach. So, I am thinking prime locations for this include:
a) Player Towns - the old player towns (Morning Light, Harro, Selen, etc) as well as the new communities added to the portals at the old player towns (eg Desert's Edge)
b) Guild Communities - only those accesible from Parsinia, Mahagra, Bristugo, and preferably with a portal out
c) NPC Towns - many of the NPC towns had plots added.
Ideally, we want a location with a portal out, and a location with a destination pad that can be reached from many places.
Criteria 2: Numbers, Numbers, Numbers
Our second criteria revolves around how many T4 consigners we can get in the same location, and hopefully planned to be jointly accessible. By this, I mean all of them facing the same road or similar, and not only two at distant ends of one community.
Now, this is where plot owners need to take the initiative. Many people have their plots already planned out, and built to a degree, and the last thing we want is for people to rip down finished structures to plan a consigner, only to find out no-one else nearby is willing to do the same. So plot owners who are interested in this, what you need to do is talk to other plot owners in the same community. Find out how many are interested, and talk about where in the community the shops can be built. Then once you have a plan between you, you can post up a proposal of how many shops you can build in your community.
If many people do this, in many communities, we will end up with a list of which towns can have how many shops. Then, as a server, we can decide on which town we would all prefer to have the shops. Once we have a clear decision, then the plot owners can start thinking about planning the T4 consigner shops, and we move onto...
Criteria 3: Build, Build, Build!
And the final stage of the project begins. We hopefully have numerous T4 consigners to build in a single town. Builders can organise into teams, or work solo, and we work together to build up however many consigners have been planned. The materials will be higher tier than the lava tunnel recently completed, so there's a nice chance for crafters to get some better experience than what you'd get for grinding T1. And the result would be a veritable shopping mall, a central location for people to list items for sale, and a great place to browse goods.
In Closing...
Now, this is merely a suggestion, nothing more. If previous history of Wind is anything to go by, then there'll be sod all interest in this, as people hate to change habits, and we'll continue using Kion with it's 400c portal fees and 10 item limit. But, here's the proposal, it'll only happen if people show an interest, and get organised in their towns.
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