City name: Tree Village

City location (Live map link, coordinates, not biome, include world name): http://smp.opticraft.net/map/#/-1031/64/4356/-3/0/0
You can access it by /home _gavin 2 or if that is set somewhere else you can use /home Holy_Moses village

Contributors: That1gie, UnknownHedgehog, Holy_moses, _gavin, also alicia for villager help


Mayor (Only one - this is the zone owner): _gavin, Holy_moses co-created the village with me

Approximate dimensions:228 by 209


Number of active residents: Myself, Holy_moses was active but he left. So only me, when i make more houses i will open them up for rent or application.

Number of completed, decorated and furnished buildings: 8
Town hall, creeper statue (by hedge), tree hut (bythat1gie), my house, house owned by krazygokart, spawn hut, moses' house.

What state is the project in, and what are your plans for its future, if any: Making more houses, second large tree started, also expanding the road system a bit around the edge near alicia's mansion. As of now all i have there is cleared land.

Why should we grant this city protection? I think this build could end up looking pretty nice, I dont have enough to protect all of it so I figured protection is the best way to go.

So recently I had trouble with getting a chest moved from my village. The op/mod that helped me out were cool about it, but said they couldnt move the chest of a semi-active player because you cant own land. Now I think this rule is a bit "outdated" or even not thought out very well. Ill start of by giving what I have wrong with this:

Clearing Land: So say player A spends a week clearing a huge forest and then leveling the ground and torching it, do they own this land? According to server rules...no. If player A decides to be gone for a week (vacation, school, work you name it) is their land safe? (Assuming its not protected by pstones). According to server rules it is not grief to build on cleared/torched out land. Now this doesnt make a lot of sense to me, I can understand the rule so that people can't just torch out the entire map or fence off a huge area. But clearing a semi large forest (which is not the easiest of tasks) and then having an active build in it seems like it would be owned by the builder. If one was to fence off a huge chunk of land and then proceeds to leave it untouched, uncleared and untorched that isnt their land. But taking the time to work on it and clear it (clearly marking the boundaries) seems like it should be personally owned and not allowed to be built on.

Protecting Land: Now if player A clears a chunk of land and has part of a build going on it should they have to pay out the ass for a crazy amount of protection stones? Simply put...no. To get to the point of being able to get project protection takes a long time,  in that time period is any clear area in the land up for grabs? According to the current rules, yes. Any person can apparently walk into a cleared area and start their house. Also someone who places a chest in that area has to be inactive to get it moved, even if they are being stubborn about moving it.

Chests/locked items: So say player B goes into Player A's land and places a chest in the way of a building. Mods/Ops can not move that chest with the current rules. Unless the player is inactive for several weeks then the player B has to move the chest off of player a's cleared land. As of now this is not considered grief, which it pretty clearly seems to be.

To sum up, i think this rule is not like an algorithm which every case can fit into, but that owning of land should be based on a personal scale. What i mean by this is; someone who takes 5 mins to border a forest in cobble doesnt own that land. But someone who has an active build on the land should have the right to say they own it, an that building on it is counted as grief. This is just my "2 cents" on the land thing. Comment below what you hate/love about the idea

Subject: Diamond Sword

Item: Diamond Sword
Enchantment(s):Looting 3 Unbreaking 3 Knockback 2 Sharpness 5 Fire Aspect 2
Condition:Unused
Level Enchanted On: Several lvl 30 books and the levels it took to combine, in all id say at least 100 levels total went into this sword(2 lvl 30 books and the lvl 30 sword and the combining xp)
Starting Price: 2k
Price Increase:1k
Buyout Price:15k
End Of Auction: 4/19/2013 Noon est

Notes:

Subject: Shears Efficiency 5 Unbreaking 3 Silk touch 1

Item: Shears
Enchantment(s): Efficiency 5 Unbreaking 3 Silk touch 1
Condition:Unused
Level Enchanted On: Several level 30 books (took 4 double chests to get silk touch book) and about 50 levels to combine all together
Starting Price:7k
Price Increase:1k
Buyout Price:20k
End Of Auction: 4/22/2013 noon est

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So recently moses and I made a farm, this farm also happens to not work. When we started making it enderman were dropping down just fine. As soonas we finished it no more spawned. Joshskiizz's farm also doesnt work, the two farms are nowhere near each other though. our farm: x 545 z -8 josh's farm x 187 z 960. I dont get why the two have suddenly stopped working. If anyone knows why / has a fix please let me know.

note: the farms are in the new guest end

No one ingame seems to have leather so anyone selling semi-large quantities of it leave a reply here with your price. I am looking to buy a few stacks of leather so the first people to reply I will buy from.

reply to this post or message me ingame if you have a village in your possession. I'd be interested in buying it or some testificates. I do not care which world it is in so long as it has a bit of space around it.

City name: Gavin's Redstone Casino and Emporium

City location (Live map link, coordinates, not biome, include world name): http://smp.opticraft.net/map/#/-339/64/-952/-1/2/0 member world -352 -935

Contributors: myself, claw gave me some redstone and tiggy helped a bit with the lock (rs nor latch problem)

Mayor (Only one - this is the zone owner): gavin

Approximate dimensions: 100x100 or so

Number of active residents: myself

Number of completed, decorated and furnished buildings: 0

What state is the project in, and what are your plans for its future, if any: My casino has just been started a few days ago, unfortunatley i have not gotten enough materials to work on it a lot so far. I just spent about 9k on stone bricks though, so i can work on the tower a lot. It will feature the design seen onthe front all aroun to the top of the netherrack. Once i get to the top i will curve it up into my personal quarters and rentable-hotel rooms. If i get this protected I would like the protection to go to sky limit (the tower will increase quite a bit in height if all goes according to my master plan).

Why should we grant this city protection? I think it could potentially turn out to be a great build, and i need the precious redstone to be protected. It is annoying trying to work out where a piece of redstone is messed up. Also I only have enough money for 2 more coal ore ps's.

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