Build a town survey - Should it have walls? If so, of what?

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Should the settlement have walls and, if so, made from what material?

Poll ended at Sun Apr 21, 2013 12:20 pm

No Walls
4
40%
Wooden Palisades
5
50%
Stone Walls
1
10%
 
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Build a town survey - Should it have walls? If so, of what?

#1 Post by Alethan »

Part three of the survey - should it have walls? If so, made from what material?
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These are great Ethan. I think letting these run for a bit and getting soe guidelines can help direct the discussion on what is needed to complete the project, and what we already have that can or can't be used.

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I agree. Maybe a few weeks? I set them all up to run with no time limits, so we can shut them off whenever.
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I think 2 weeks should be good, not sure how many memebers actually want to be involved but that should be plenty of time.

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#5 Post by onlyme »

I think this answer depends on the type of population center being built. If hamlet, none, if village, either none or wood, if large city, then stone, etc.
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I think we can close these now.


Looks like a village with 20-39 and wooden palisades.

But we have a tie on forest or rivers edge, I think Tonixx should make the call.

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#7 Post by Alethan »

Well... we could always have a village that is at the edge of a forest with a river cutting through it or on the other side of it.
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that would work :)

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#9 Post by Alethan »

I wasn't exactly sure how to end the polls, so I went back and set the Duration to 1 day. So I guess they'll shut down tomorrow, if they haven't already. I can't tell, because I have already voted on them and so I don't get the vote button anymore.
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#10 Post by wolfpack »

I think next step is to determne what is needed in the town

business - number
taverns - 3
blacksmith - 2
stables - 1


etc.

also how does this map look?

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I for one like that map.

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#12 Post by onlyme »

So, if wooden walls win out barely over no walls... where on that map would walls be build? It seems too spread out to build it around the entire thing, so do we need to draw that in, to see what is within, what is outside of it?
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