PLEASE NOTE: The City of Lancaster is no longer active. While existing owners will not be evicted, we are not open for business or adding new players. Thank you for your interest, but we recommend that you join one of ECC's many active towns.
--jmichael214--

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WELCOME TO THE CITY OF LANCASTER
Official Thread of ECC's Most Active City
16+ Adjacent Towns in one 800x800-ish city (we've lost count)


GOT QUESTIONS? SURE YOU DO! Ask one of these players:

@Samanthurr (formerly Samiwarbler), Co-Mayor of Lancaster, Culvercity, Westcaster, Aberdeen and Southcaster
@LemonLimey (formerly LimeCini), Co-Mayor of Lancaster, Southcaster, and Westcaster
@gstoner3, Chief Architect and Co-Mayor of Eastcaster
@voltair42, Co-Mayor of Southcaster
@jmichael214, Invisible Unhelpful Employee

Spawn Portal located at Towns5, Redstone, Stone.
Warp available: /warp lancaster

Did we send you here to read the rules and agree to them before selling you a plot? They're here ... just scroll down.

Other nearby towns:

Pacificlands (@gaget122, Mayor): Plot town, south of Southcaster
Paragon (@IzTheWizKid, Mayor): Plot town, south of Aberdeen
Lilydale & Summerdale (@Samanthurr, Mayor): http://www.ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/lilydale-offical-town-thread.113615/#post-606639
Daisydale (@LemonLimey, Mayor): [link]
FarEastCaster (@gstoner3, Mayor): Private town.
Turtledale (@Turtle_02, Mayor): [link]
Lifeville (@arogorn708, Mayor): [link]
There are a couple more? We've lost track. The city is really, really big.

Lancaster History Thread: http://www.ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/lancaster-history-thread.118265/#post-636063



Lancaster Square from the air. Clockwise from lower left corner: 7 Northern Ave. Condos, Lancaster Mall, Prismarine Tower Condos, Skygarden Tower Condos, Lancaster Tower Condos, the Lancaster Sign, the Central Train Station, the Indigenous Peoples of Rising Museum, and the Portal Building (with six portals).



The Builder Building -- welcome center, resource hub and home to 16 apartments just for Builders. Lancaster made accessible for the newest players.



With your purchase of land, a condo, or a Builder Building apartment, you get full access to our huge public farm. So, buy a plot of any size from us in any town owned by @jmichael214, @LemonLimey or @Samanthurr and you get free access to a 100x100, seven-crop and tree farm.



The location of our portal on Towns5 at Spawn. We also have an internal network of six sets of portals connecting Southcaster, Westcaster, Eastcaster, Aberdeen, the town farm, and the Lancaster Maze to the main Portal Building in Lancaster Square.



We have a whole collection of "suburb" towns that are part of Lancaster City. Pictured here is central Southcaster. Buy in any of these towns and get perms to two towns: your town and the town farm (Culvercity). All the suburbs and main Lancaster town touch each other in one big city.



Another draw of our town is that we do not enforce one single architectural style. Build within the height limits and some basic rules and you can build anything you like. Shops may only be built in Lancaster town itself.



The Lancaster Maze (under construction).



@jmichael214 would rather build things, even gigantic pointless things, than actually run his towns. We highly recommend contacting one of the co-Mayors if you'd like to join our City. @jmichael214 is a complete slacker.

Hopelessly Out-of-Date Map of the Lancaster Area

The Lancaster metro area is currently made up of 16+ protected towns, all directly adjacent to one another, plus the town farm. @jmichael214 founded Lancaster and owns eight of the towns in the center, plus a spawntown named Zenith (more on that someday soon). The other seven (ten? Lost track again) towns are owned by Lancaster players who've made mayor or president and wanted to stay in the area, as well as one pure genius returning player. This map is hopelessly out of date. Fogden has been claimed and moved, and Inverness and Turtledale are blank spaces on here that are now filled. Also, Lifeville is south of Turtledale down in the lower right. And that new town of Israel's west of Paragon, and maybe one west of Westcaster?



Existing Perks/Features
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Huge (100x100x4) public crop/tree farm. Spawn portal located in Towns5, redstone row, stone section. Inter-town portal network. E-Reps often available on request. Free water placement. Smelting services. Donation Chests. The most successful player-owned mall on the server, with a variety of shops charging less than spawnshops. A warp to the central square. The scariest trampoline on ECC. A gigantic Maze with no finish line yet.

Pre-Built Living Options
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No plots available, but you'd like to move in anyway? We have pre-builts left over from previous players, and we have condo skyscrapers built by a couple of our more talented residents. Contact one of the co-mayors to inquire.

Lancaster Mall
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Located immediately to the east of the Portal Building and connected to it by a pedestrian bridge, the Lancaster Mall offers player-owned stores stocking a wide variety of merchandise and charging LESS than spawnshop prices. Great for residents and visitors to town alike. To go directly to the Mall, /warp lancaster and follow the signs.

Plot Prices

Lancaster, Southcaster, Westcaster and Aberdeen:
10 x 10: $1,500
10x15: $2,000
10 x 20 = $2,500
15 x 15 = $3,000
20 x 20 = $5,000
30 x 30 = $10,000
40 x 40 = $20,000
Westcaster cliff plot: $10,000
Westcaster mountain plot: $10,000

Eastcaster is @jmichael214's personal home town, and neither plots or perms in Eastcaster are for sale.

Plot prices are non-negotiable and must be paid in ECD up-front before you will be added. We don't do payment plans, sorry.

Rules

The following rules are in effect in the following towns, all owned by @jmichael214: Lancaster, Southcaster, Eastcaster, Westcaster, Culvercity, Aberdeen, Fogden, Inverness and Morecambe. While this city is often referred to here just as "Lancaster," the rules apply equally in all of the towns.
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1. All server rules are in effect in all Lancaster towns. This includes basic rules about language and general standards of behavior.
2. No trolling. If you genuinely don't know what "trolling" means, look it up now. Spamming the local chat channel is trolling.
3. No harassment of the mayors. Please remember that town owners/officers are not your employees.
4. No griefing. This includes altering or destroying public buildings and roads, as well as all the other destructive behaviors already prohibited by the server. Placing LWCs or breaking or placing ANY blocks without permission outside your plot is also griefing.
5. No stealing from other town residents, regardless of whether their belongings are in locked chests.
6. Do not build anywhere outside the stone brick plot outlines. They are not part of your plot, so don't build where they are, and do not remove them. They are how we keep track of land ownership.
7. Do not obscure access to or visibility of the locked sign on one one corner of your plot, or in the lobby of your condo building. It is the only written record of your property ownership.
8. The public farm is a shared resource, and MUST be replanted after every harvest. Failure or "forgetting" to replant counts as griefing.
9. If you are inactive for more than 14 days, your plot may be cleared and resold at any time. The town is simply too big to keep track of inactive players any more. Sorry!
10. Maximum building height is 50 and you may go down by 15 blocks. No mining under the town. Calculate your height limit from the ground level of your plot.
11. No ugly builds. Please don't build your house entirely out of dirt, cobblestone or other muck, and no giant windowless boxes.
12. Shops may only be built in the town of Lancaster itself, and only inside the Mall or the Builder Building. Any other trade signs will be removed, aside from personal money or XP storage signs.
13. Secure your belongings inside your house. Learn to use LWC commands. The town is not responsible for things you lose otherwise.
14. Behave!

ATTENTION GRIEFERS!
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Don't buy a home here. The town is super-active, and griefers always get caught because someone always notices before the logs are cleared. And we don't mess around -- straight to a formal grief report and if the server bans you, don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. Our position on griefing is that it is a Minecraft player's way of saying "I bring nothing to the table." If that's your thing, you'll be happier and you'll last longer living somewhere else.

Above all -- Welcome to Our Town
Contact us at any time in-game or on this thread with questions.
JMichael214 and Team Lancaster​

 

@756airplane, welcome to Lancaster! 12 William Street is yours.

 

Per mail from 756airplane, he may be inactive for more than 14 days, starting now.

 

@copperton, welcome to Lancaster, subject to my cautionary note about your griefing and unacknowledged but brief ban history. 7 George Street is yours.

 

@Blackcrown_, welcome to Lancaster! 20 William St. is yours.

 

@dragonslayer6024, welcome to Lancaster! 6 Western Ave. is yours.

 

@shaneo17 has paid $2000 for 20 Charles St., and will be added once he has filed his application.

 

@Ildigrub, welcome to Lancaster! 2 Elizabeth St. is yours.

 

@shaneo17, welcome to Lancaster! 20 Charles St. is yours.

 

@Quilny, welcome to Lancaster! 8 Western Ave. is yours.

 

@TheLastAce, welcome to Lancaster! 3 Andrew St. is yours.