This is a smaller post and one that elicits some input from you guys! Another part of the upcoming changes to towns is the addition of member 'levels'. Currently, there are only owners and subowners, all other ranks are merely superficial and aesthetic (aside from their needlessly complicated use in Bubble Generators).
Town owners (and possibly subowners to a certain rank) will be able to use a command (/g promote) that can set a town member as one of 4 levels. Title-based ranks as you know of them now will still exist, but they'll no longer be involved in how bubble generators work. Instead, what currently are bubble generators will differentiate in-town build permissions via these levels, instead of ranks. This should eliminate some confusion about getting case-sensitive ranks correct for bubbles, etc.
Additionally, for new towns, part of the leveling up of your town is unlocking these four ranks. Brand new towns will not be able to create bubbles as they are (I say this because bubble generators will be removed in their physical form entirely in favor of a far more simple, command-based, subzoning featureset, but more on that some other time) until they reach certain levels. This also goes hand in hand with town radius.
The question for you guys is what to call these ranks. On many servers running Towny and the like, the ranks are set (as medieval, pretty much); Lords, Kings, Queens, blah blah. Personally, Mag and I think we can do better. We're not sure how the actual names of these levels will come into play, it may only be that Kings or Queens (town owners) will be known as such in public chat in order to add a little extra roleplaying to Loka. We're also undecided as to how to differentiate between levels in town chat, perhaps as an additional level bracket, , [III], [L] (for lord, or something). Let's think of some names. Level 1 is the lowest, noob-like level for a player and 4 would probably be a Lord, but what that means yet aside from build permissions, we're also unsure.
Let's hear some ideas!
Town owners (and possibly subowners to a certain rank) will be able to use a command (/g promote) that can set a town member as one of 4 levels. Title-based ranks as you know of them now will still exist, but they'll no longer be involved in how bubble generators work. Instead, what currently are bubble generators will differentiate in-town build permissions via these levels, instead of ranks. This should eliminate some confusion about getting case-sensitive ranks correct for bubbles, etc.
Additionally, for new towns, part of the leveling up of your town is unlocking these four ranks. Brand new towns will not be able to create bubbles as they are (I say this because bubble generators will be removed in their physical form entirely in favor of a far more simple, command-based, subzoning featureset, but more on that some other time) until they reach certain levels. This also goes hand in hand with town radius.
The question for you guys is what to call these ranks. On many servers running Towny and the like, the ranks are set (as medieval, pretty much); Lords, Kings, Queens, blah blah. Personally, Mag and I think we can do better. We're not sure how the actual names of these levels will come into play, it may only be that Kings or Queens (town owners) will be known as such in public chat in order to add a little extra roleplaying to Loka. We're also undecided as to how to differentiate between levels in town chat, perhaps as an additional level bracket, , [III], [L] (for lord, or something). Let's think of some names. Level 1 is the lowest, noob-like level for a player and 4 would probably be a Lord, but what that means yet aside from build permissions, we're also unsure.
Let's hear some ideas!
