Tired of your old Biome? Spend them rupies on a new one.

I was thinking this could be a great way for people to spend some money, spend rupies on changing the biome in which their homes,buldings/shops are located.

http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/edit-fun-weatherman-v0-4-2-change-biomes-easy-1-2-5-r4-0.68033/

 

I support this. : D

 

and that was the end of that.

 

I feel like it would make the map like unnatural in a way. I would ruin the determination for finding a cool spot to build your house if you could just buy one...

And if someone is living in the same area as you and you don't know they're there and change the biome, that would cause issues too.

 

would be great for things like the snow biome that just sudden appeared over arcadia after the new maps were added

 

It would be nice to get our town out of the snowy biome its in now, the big, expensive yacht we had as our spawn doesn't look so impressive covered in snow

 

I agree that it would be beneficial in getting rid of those small snow biomes in random areas.

 

Perhaps, if allowed, building a large platform out of render distance and above the highest y coord the map can see. This could potentially stop snow from falling, as the snow lands on top. To stop it from casting shade it would probably have to be glass.

Only problem is the rule of no floating structures, but it seems the justification of that is that it looks silly. If no one can see it, then it's not really looking silly right?

I'm not asking if I can do this, just suggesting a possible solution.

 

How would that look on Dynmap?

 

that idea was used at a base in peaceful, the snow blocks most of the light and makes it dark.

 

I would love being able to change biomes, I have a swamp biome at my spawn that, although not too noticeable, it is annoying and I would love to change it. However to keep people from messing with the biomes I think only mayors of towns may change the biomes and only within and around their town. That way you don't have random people in a town buying biome changes and screwing up everyone's builds.

 

Biome changes are a bad idea, you want biome changes for aestetic reasons, here are some reasons why i would not want them

1: biome changes impact all players that will roam through the area
2: some players may not want a biome change
3: the work involved
4: as an admin i could see alot of complaining going on about the issue of changes, and the "i paid my money and i dont like the change, change it again"
5: changing a biome to a diffrent one can impact the blocks that are on the top of the area. the waters will change, the growth of trees and lilypads would change, too many changes

i vote against any such thing, and would just on the basis that someone would complain and i would need to deal with it...

 

I said it in my post Flag, build it higher than what dynmap can see (probably y128).

What about making a lift to clear the snow? Or just placing torches everywhere, doubt they block light, and they stop snow falling.

 

Dyn map goes to 256 or whatever the height limit is.

 

128

 

There are many ways to limit the number of people from using it, first and foremost being making it really expensive, and considering the kind of change that would go into a biome change I'm thinking 50k-75k would be a good price. You could also use my "only town mayors can change the biomes in and around their town" idea, this would keep the rich townies from screwing up peoples plot, also if a townie that knew nothing of the changes made to the town and doesn't like them then they can leave and find a new town. As for the block changes that come from the changed biome, with the price to change a biome being so high its most likely that the person buying it knows what they are paying for, and if they don't then that is their fault. Also once a player has paid the money and the biome has been changed then there is a "no take backs" policy, meaning that once the change has been made and if the player is unsatisfied they may not ask for their money back(because they won't get it back) and they may not ask to change the biome back(because it won't be changed back) and if a player harasses a admin whether it be in-game or pm they will get one warning to stop and if they don't then they will be banned. As for 4, if complaining, whether it be a little or a lot, gets to any admin then they aren't cut out to a admin and should just quit so max can find someone who is.

 

petty complaining gets to everyone... we have VIP's who think they are above the rules, we have players who have been here so long they have forgotten the rules and then are beligerant when we remind them of them. Biome changes are another way to create work for admins that already spend the majority of their time dealing with player issues. people will complain, banning someone for asking for a biome change is stupid even after a warning,

the simple thing is what max already said "no"

 

Max also said no to cash 4 diamonds because of problems it would caused, but i proved to him that with a little bit of thinking and a bit of a open mind you could find a way to make it work. Biome changing is no different, with a bit of thinking im sure there would be a way for it to work, but to not even consider it because of the thought of complaining or because of the problem it might cause is just laziness and ignorance.