[Suggestion] Custom Names for /warp

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  1. will_the_warrior

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    I would have to disagree with this. I think the terms should be on the town application end. There should be an agreement that you are aware about whether or not the warp is taken. For example, it I purchased /warp racetrack for 40k, I would expect it to be mine. However, it wouldn't be uncommon for another user to create a town called "racetrack" just so that they can have the warp as well. It should be the town owner's responsibility to verify whether or not the warp is taken prior to picking a town name to prevent people from stealing /warp's from users that already purchased them.
     
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    That is the problem. You are putting the responsibility in the hand of the users. What if they don't have TP? Then they can't try out /warp <whatever>. They would need to go through all the pages of warps. With the amount of people younger kids on this server, we simply cannot just take their word that nobody has that town name, or warp name.

    This would require Game Admins to check ALL this this as well. I simply think it is to complicated.

    It was removed way back when for a reason.
     
  3. will_the_warrior

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    I feel like you are way over-exaggerating the process. Typing /warp <town name> and seeing whether or not it exists takes two seconds. The GA's would have to verify it regardless. It's not like they receive thousands of town apps everyday, so I think this process would be perfectly feasible.
     
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    They would also need to check whether or not the warp name is being used as a town. If so, then it couldn't happen.
     
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    Alright so /warp <town name> and /rg i <warp name>. This still seems like a minimal amount of work to be done when creating warps. As @nicit6 stated, there aren't large amounts of /warp applications on a daily basis. From my point of view, this seems to be a rather simple process.
     
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    It is just yet another tedious thing Game Admins would need to do. Obviously are going to keep coming up with different things to say. Whether it be "that isn't to hard" or "it only takes a second", it still takes more time.

    Once again, it was removed for a reason.
     
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    I feel that the issue of future towns having that name is being avoided. I'd appreciate if that issue was addressed. It isn't fair to future town owners to restrict their options because past users wanted a custom warp. I don't see a point in it to be honest.
     
  8. will_the_warrior

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    With regards to this issue, it would simple be on the part of the town owner to verify whether or not the warp was taken. If we allow town owners to force custom warps to be removed after being placed, people are going to start abusing the privilege.

    For example, say that I purchased /warp shopping for my town. /warp shopping becomes very well-known and is used over and over on a daily basis. Then, Bobby Jo comes along and realizes that there is not a town with the name "shopping" created. He then decides to purchase a town and name it shopping, then proceeds to "steal" the /warp from the user that bought it in the first place.

    This is simply a matter of checking the current /warp's before establishing towns. Users could still be allowed to create towns with the same names, but must understand that no warp will be created without them making an agreement between the original buyer of the warp to transfer it, or simply not at all.
     
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    @Revanrose6, with regards to your issue with conflicting town names, how feasible would it be to create an option to change the name of a particular region? This would still establish the "custom warp" idea while preventing town names from conflicting with the process.
     
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    As of right now, Only Andrewkm can delete regions/rename or do anything like that. With the chances of a large number of apps that would come in, plus the confusion, it isn't extremely feasible.
     
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    Couldn't he assign a Staff rank for that, such as GA?
     
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    The process of renaming a region requires the region to be deleted and re-created with a new name. This of course deletes all the users and owners. It can be quite messy.

    And others have already pointed out the other flaws with this suggestion.
     
  13. will_the_warrior

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    Could this just be a side effect of renaming the region and something that we would have to deal with? Most of the renaming would likely be done when a new owner buys a town, in which the owners and members would likely be slim anyways.

    Also, is there not a plugin that would allow for regions to be renamed without deleting and recreating?
     
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    You are now suggesting multiple different things. Custom warps, New plugins, changing town names....
     
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    Read Revan's posts. She is concerned about the town names and warp names being similar and causing issues. Thus where the side comment came from.


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    If someone wants to blow a ton of money on a warp no one could ever remember let them, it's good for the economy.
     
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    In my opinion, town owners take priority. They pay more for a town (85k - 400k) than is charged for a warp. The situation of /warp shopping simply adds to my point of restrict warps to town names. Although with /warp shopping, it's fairly silly to advertise a warp name that you know isn't locked in - simply advertise your town warp, which can't be taken from you.
     
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    I read it. That doesn't change the fact that you are suggesting multiple things now. In order to implement this we need to add many other things.
     
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    Basically, this is what I'm saying, Andrew has stated multiple times seeing as we've had town renames before, that he doesn't like them and doesn't want to do them again. They took a ton of effort. They made it hard to prove if someone was illegally evicted, etc. The deletion of a region causes more problems than just the mayor having to remember who was in his town. I see no issues with our current system and a lot more with changing the system. As of right now I maintain my -1.
     
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    What if with a town renaming you have to give a notice, similar to a town eviction. All members must be tagged, so they know the change is being made.
     
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