whats the point in having a castle design contest?
why not just implement the castle / keep customization tool on shards and let people do what they want with their castles? Really don't understand why this game has to make everything more complicated then it needs to be.
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Client-stored house styles (anything "classic") load much faster since they don't require the walls and floor to be sent from the server.
One of the unique attractions of UO is it's customiseable housing system. For many players it's an integral part of the gameplay. Creativity that many players display with 18x18 is trusly amazing, and there is no reason to prevent them from doing the same with castles. Pre-Made castles is a woefully inadequate half measure that will not solve a problem that has a very simple solution.
thanks to the ungratefulness of this thread, they should now withdraw any new castle designs.
This is why you ungrateful people deserve nothing.
some people build ugly ugly buildings, that we all have to look at. (talking about smaller buildings now) there should be a form of planning permission. Once you’ve designed a plot, you should have to submit the design to the shard EM, and if the EM has months of backlog, so be it. And people could bribe their way to having their plans approved faster or with less scrutiny.
Designing housing is a big part of the game, and not allowing it because someone's very subjective sense of beauty might be offended goes against the spirit of the sandbox that UO pioneered.
Now they are trying to save their faces... it all started with "draw it on paper" lol.
But, doubt that will happen. And since I do have an account with a castle, I guess I should go design something with practical rooms and without three stupid sets of doors that need to be opened to get inside. *sigh*