Discuss: Rules about Walls and Villages

[CodeMage]

@Ulyssi

Arenas seem less “necessary” to play. Maybe this is just my own reservation, but I’d feel less comfortable arguing with FC for arena rights on PVE than I would map rooms.

I mean, neither public map rooms nor arenas are strictly necessary. My personal view is that this isn’t about necessity, but rather about whether it has a non-decorative purpose without breaking any other rules.

No matter how much I enjoy seeing the creativity of people who build inns, lighthouses, and ships, none of those builds offers anything beyond decoration. Map rooms do, on all servers. Arenas also do on PVE(-C) servers, if they’re built around a battle standard.

@TeleTesselator

Yeah, I don’t take your first meaning there. Indeed, maprooms and etc. are likely a no-no! Reading his paragraph here:

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@TeleTesselator

which to me reads: “ Don’t build anything outside your immediate base. You might think you’re preforming a service but we will ban you for it. ”, means those things are out!

@Ulyssi already pointed out that your interpretation of the rules was specifically addressed in the previous discussion thread. I just want to add that your interpretation stems from taking rules out of one context and applying it to a different one. The words you quoted are in the section about “Bridges, roads, paths” and the full context is as follows:

@Umborls

Bridges, Roads, paths
Bridges, roads, elevated paths, and other such structures might serve a practical purpose, or they may be built for aesthetics. Some of these structures may even be intended as a benefit to everyone on the server. However, the presence of such structures also lay claim to the surrounding land. We strongly recommend not building any bridges or roads on Official Servers as they are usually considered an abuse of the claim system.

@TeleTesselator

I should clarify, that I do indeed hope I’m wrong… I like having maprooms here and there.

Unless we get additional clarification from Funcom stating the contrary, then the public map rooms should not be against the rules per se. A map room could still break one of the other rules in the TOS. For (a deliberately contrived) example, if your map room design incorporates walls that enclose the obelisk, this would probably violate rules about blocking content in the game, even if those walls have gates that are always open.