World Give Everyone Access To The Full Housing Island

Basically my suggestion is to give everyone full access to the housing island. In my opinion the island size is too limiting for people looking to design their housing and might discourage people from using their housing or spending a lot of time on it.

Instead the paid aspect of housing islands could be adding the option to have multiple islands to build on and having each island be their own separate world. That would enable more different projects while also atleast giving everyone a shot at creating their own full island once.

 

Yeah, as someone without a rank I agree - but this might take up a lot of space on the server.
Could you give some more specifics:
Would there be a max amount of islands for each player?
Would you get new starter materials each time? Shared block bank?
Would they all be the same size?

 

The storage size on the server would probably really become a problem with more islands so the max island amount should not be higher than 2 or 3 which might already be a lot. A shared bank would make more sense because I don't think anyone would like to gather new materials for a different projects if the materials might be in the block bank of a different island. In addition to that a shared block bank between islands could save on a bit of storage. I can see running out of storage place possibly becoming a problem here but personally I did not need to have more than 3 pages for my housing yet.
I don't really see why the housing islands would be a different size.

 

you could instead add extra (smaller) island's on the side and you will unlock the use of one for each rank tier you have. that will help grant the extra space for the paid ranks and allow the use of the same block bank. it will even save space in the world and it wont be 3 house files but just 1 larger file

 

I guess the multiple islands kinda fixes the money problem, but it would only put more of a load on the server. If this is possible given the current server resources, then I'd love to see it in game. But if it's not, I'd settle for just making the non-rank housing island actually reflect it's size so you don't get spammed with chat messages when you're trying to terriform.

 

I really doubt it would take up much storage space considering the whole island is being stored as a schematic and those files are extremely small. Even if every player (probably only a couple thousand at most) completely filled their entire island with blocks to remove all the air the total storage required would still only be a couple times more what they're working with now which is already probably a fairly small number.

The real issue is the loading of the files since the bigger the schematic the longer it takes to load, they're probably saving some server resources by limiting the majority of players islands though there's no real way of knowing how resource intensive it would actually be without knowing the specific details. I'm also not convinced that people load their islands all that often so I'm not sure if it would actually be an issue but the loading of large schematic files would be the important bottleneck.

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I'm not too sure about having multiple islands since that kind of just reintroduces the issue of ranked players having more space, though I think maybe having exclusive island themes (beyond the grassy plains) might be a good idea if they're going to develop housing in the future. That's just my take on the compensation though, otherwise I think expanding the housing for everyone is a great idea!

 

Sorry but I don't think the server can legally do this as champion and hero would lose one of their promised incentives. I think it would be better if the lower ranks got the same island, and then the higher ranks get a larger island once again, so that higher ranks get enough room to build full towns while lower ranks can still make cool stuff. I want to see more large builds, and the fact that low ranks are limited to the middle of the island is stupid.