+1 To the idea of having a market competition (like the spawn build competition we had a while back).

 

So guys, this is our first idea, what do you think?

4 different areas still, portal to go in grey area in the middle!

tier 1 shops - $50k a week
tier 2 shops - $25k a week
tier 3 shops - $10k a week

this is currently limited to 24 shops but could easily go up to 48 by having double height or something

please give me some positive or negative feedback and let me know your thoughts!

 

Nice layout but bit too pricey, I guess.

And making many floors might be good, but the further floor from the portal, it should be cheaper.
Only if thid layout is used or similar layout that uses floor-system

 

12 shops per row? Granted that many are unfilled, but that's not nearly enough shops. Second, 50k a week? Are you kidding? The weekly cost shouldn't change. If it did, shouldn't be more than 10k. The setup itself seems like it could work, but again, it's kinda boxy, would need to be zoomed out and have many more shops. I am kinda looking/hoping for more of a unique type of design though

 

Prices were just an example, it's to stop people from just having a shop for a symbol of wealth rather then using it to help the economy! :)

 

There's currently around 80 shops in the current design and probably only 60% full! Why would you need more shops if we can't even fill the ones we have?

 

I helped Lowndsy with the design, and the idea behind it was to try and keep the shops in as small a footprint as possible. Atm it takes far too long to walk the lanes (for those without fly).

I'd encourage more people to start throwing ideas in the mix for sure! There are a lot of creative people on the server and I'm sure we can come up with a great design for this

 

The Idea of A New Market, Nice Concept, But if you do go through with this, Keep in mind the reason why Andrew changed it in the first place, "The Lag". Everyone complained that there was so much lag, so forth and so on and there was. The reason was due to all the [Trade] signs in one small location, that's the reason for the new design, Spread out market stalls and it has helped. So keep that little side note in mind if ya'all go through with a "New Market Design" :D

 

whilst i totally agree with this comment, i also feel that the current design is far too spread out, we need a happy medium! i hate having to walk all the way from one end to the other, i know there's 2 warps and i have fly at speed 10, its still a pain in the ass!

 

There's a difference between how lag was when are market was redesigned, and how it is in 1.8.

In 1.8, you only load the chunks in your visual and not the ones behind you. There would be less lag in any market we make now then there was in previous Minecraft versions, when we flipped over to the new market.

 

yeah, this is also a very good point!

 

That's a great idea. I feel the market now is really hard to navigate which stations are which. I think that it's pointless to have station 45 next to 27. Signs that are marked stations 1-30, 31-60 would be nice.

 

To figure out the lag problem just fill your design with signs and blocks of every kind.
If you don't get a significant FPS drop then the design's good, if you do get one then the design's bad.

 

Bump

 

bump

 

I would love to see a new shop, maybe attached to the new spawn ;), the one we have is confusing. Would be cool to see the new shops in the form of a mall or building like they have on some prison break servers.
+1 :)

 

whilst i definitely agree with a huge mall like building i still think that defeats the object of why were changing the current one, too many people think that its too spread out all ready and takes far too long to walk from one side to the other!

 

What about a circle? Same length as the existing market, but have 8 warps that go to 8 points on the wheel. if you're browsing, you keep walking, if something specific, you warp to that section. Still spread out for chunk loading, but not so spread that you have to walk forever to get to the next store.

 

Do a mock up and show us what you mean?

 

+1