Minecraft Name: 0524 Suggestion: Allow a name change when a town is claimed Reason: When a town is claimed, it is essentially "reestablished" and brought back to life under a new regime. Also this is a decent compromise for changing names. Any Other Information: There would be a question in the claim app that says "Would you like to change the name of this town" and "What will be the towns new name" etc. Also, the previously most concerning issue was with town portals. Now that they're gone, it's not as big of an issue. Link To This Plugin/Is this a custom addition?:
This would be nice if it was made a perk for EcoLegends. That could be a good incentive to rank up for most EcoMasters, and not cause staff *too* much more stress.
Renaming towns in general is something I've thought about before. Whilst the idea is great in theory, seems quite impractical in reality. ECC has over 4 years of towns now. All of these towns are documented on the forums, one way or another. This isn't as simple as changing names, as the forum profiles automatically convert. What happens to contracts with towns named X when the town name changes to Y? What happens to the town features such as warps and town-town portals? What happens to the other town applications that involve this town? Fixing all of these issues sounds like a nightmare for the GA team. Also, if ECC were to allow changing town names, will people be allowed to use old names that have been changed in the future? If so, that would cause immense confusion. If not, how would the players/GA team make sure these players aren't using old names? Sounds like a complex process for both the applicant and the GAs. I can see why renaming towns is a very appealing idea, but there seems to be too much issues with it.
If it's only applicable with town claims, they'll be so infrequent it won't be a massive pain for the GA. Contracts - go to the forum and look up the original town name for contracts that contain it. Town features - Warps/PvP arenas aren't card, just simply a command(s). Town-Town portals seem to be the only issue but you can simply change the name of the connection.
Considering you have to remove and redo a town to rename it this is just too much of a hassle. If you want a new town with a new name, just buy one. If you want an older town you keep the town's legacy too.
I think this would be an amazing addition. The server is pretty old and there is so much accumulated abandoned stuff. In some cases it really impairs development by current active players. For example you put your town next to someone and that person is permabanned and quits, congrats you have one entire side of your potential nation blocked indefinitely and everything will go together wonky on two other sides too to avoid the 15 block limit. So I actually believe further reform is needed. That it will always be named whatever it was called originally is just another nuisance. It would probably be some extra work to do this but I think it would be very possible. Make it so that when you do /rg i the former town names are listed too in order to assist tracking on forums. It could work the same way that /seen lists former names. It could also be something only possible under strict circumstances such as the former town owner being absent for a longer period of time. It could also be very expensive and even linked with ranks so you can only do it so many times or it costs a lot. This could be applied for in the same way things like warps, heal signs and other town features are.
I can pretty much guarantee that they're not going to redo a sizeable portion of worldguard just so this can be a thing.
Man, you sure are saucy these days Yeah probably not but I don't see that as a good reason not to support the suggestion or offer potential solutions. Maybe down the road post-minigame launch. That might attract a good flow of new players and it's only going to get more crowded at that rate. I think that having a system to fully claim, name and redistribute land might be a very worthwhile endeavor.
Although I see the reasoning for this idea, I disagree. As it was already stated above, there are administrative problems with this idea. Allowing renaming of towns would require town claims becoming SA+ work instead of GA+ work. All kinds of portals that were ever added to the town would need to be found and renamed, which would also require editing town-town portals in other towns that do not relate to the town claim app in any way and possibly it would require a warp remake as well. I see a lot of effort added for a minor change that wouldn't really be worth it. Also,
