Towny discussion thread

Town Locks/Limited Personal Locks
I believe in another thread (though I can't be arsed to look it up for proof right now) it had been mentioned that town-locks will be a thing at zero cost to the town itself. I very much like this idea and feel that if a town is allowed chest locks, personal locks could be limited to 10 or less. Especially with shulker boxes, everything needed should be able to be stored in that amount of space.

Perks of being in a town
Some perks already exist. If a person doesn't want to PvP, they can use a town as a place of shelter (assuming they're not running from battles). Monster spawning can be turned off for building in peace at all hours (especially important with the next update). You can change biomes of blocks to truly craft your own ideal space. You also have access to all the highest tier quests for more rupees. These are some pretty awesome perks and possibly not talked about enough - I should do a better job of it.

I'm not sure what else you could add to entice people to start/join a town. You've already set the upkeep to 50 per plot per day, which is completely reasonable (Though will the next update allow plots that match chunk size and are the prices adjusted accordingly?). We do have a group who are very ANTI ALL TAXES OMG - and my own personal fear is that people will join and then quit and leave half-built crap to be cleaned up by admin later. Maybe people just need to get more comfortable with taxes. If you can keep the plot/player ratio pretty reasonable, shouldn't need more than 50 rupees per citizen of the town per day, and that's easily attainable via a single quest completion...

 

Its been a thing on our server for a long time, and probably is a sentiment that is shared with other servers. Taxes just don't sit well with people. I find it hard to implement a tax in my town that i think is reasonable without upsetting players. There are those that will just up and leave when there is any kind of tax. I think this discussion is very important and I hope we can come up with good ideas that will encourage players to join towns.

 

I think this hits the nail on the head. If you can make sure your town is reasonable in size (and stays within your means) you can make this work.

Example:
The town of Piersson has 5 people. They theorize that if you are in town, you probably own a plot and that is the the sole factor in deciding a town's upkeep. It makes sense to charge a 50 rupee tax a day.

However, Piersson also has designated 1 plot as a "farm plot" and has built layered farms within that plot and storage at the bottom. All spare vegetables (and everything else) goes into that plot that no one lives on. This allows town members to zip right into the storage room, do a single quest for 100 rupees (the first farming quest) and move on with their day with a 50 rupee profit!

Suggestions:

• I am an outlier in that I don't feel the need for a specific building as my home. But perhaps the first plot a town claims could be upkeep free to allow building of a town hall or town spawn point or a town farm that no one would reasonably be expected to call their "home." Yes, this could be abused by people creating towns and just keeping them at one plot, but who would really want to have their entire build in a single chunk (assuming plots are resized)?
• Also previously mentioned - not being allowed to dig below a certain point unless you are a member of a town - is that only in town plots or is that all over the main map? Would it be accompanied with a "digging below this point requires town membership!" message?