Obtaining a town marker icon on the map

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April 3, 2014 at 11:13 pm #2153
GodsDead
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We need to decide as a community the requirements to claim to be a town, these need to be measurable, Population count for example would be impossible to track with people living all over the place and changing continually.

This is the rough list so far

Required
- Town Hall
- Walkways/Roads/Paths
- Beacon
- 3+ Current Lived in houses
- Farm(s)
At least 3 Required
- Blacksmith
- Arena
- Stables
- Shop
- Church / Temple / Alt (For enhancements?)
- Port if (coastal)
- lighthouse (coastal)
- Storage
- Public Mine
- Trade Market(s)
- Rental properties (Sub claimed real estate)
- Bank (Not sure how this would work) Maybe a Vault?
Reward
- Icon placed on the live map
All towns will use the same icon, we need to choose one.

Available icons

Live Application thread: piratemc.com/groups/settlements/forum/topic/application-for-town-status/
April 3, 2014 at 11:21 pm #2154
Jon
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if your town can be seen from sea, i think a lighthouse would be cool.

shops and arenas should be considered when people build towns, things that make them visited

trade markets

rental properties

banks

farms are a must for any town imo, A town should be self sufficiant, so it should have everything you need to survive without leaving it.

as for the icon pirate flag has to be the one
April 3, 2014 at 11:30 pm #2156
GodsDead
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Yup, Agree on most all of those points and updated the main post with amendments.

Can’t be the pirate flag, thats for spawn only, Also can’t be the Skull icon, using that for arenas, the scales are also taken for the server shops at the cove.

We have the ability to add icons, it would have to fit in with this style of icon artwork though.
April 4, 2014 at 12:34 am #2157
Jon
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well, if all towns must have a place of worship how about using the temple icon?
April 4, 2014 at 5:34 am #2158
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I’d say one of those houses for non-coastal towns and an anchor for towns that have a harbour. Or just the pin or a blue flag for coastal and another for non-coastal.
April 4, 2014 at 7:57 am #2159
Crazy Pirate
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Port Royal has:

Paths
Blacksmith
Market
Townhall (being built)
Port
Stables (one built, the other half built)
Massive fort
Rental Properties
At least 3 lived in properties (Me, adzy, tim occasionally, Kitty Paris, but no longer phant)
Farms
No beacon…yet!

And for the icons, the coloured flags, so each town has a coloured flag in-game, lets say red wool, and then the livemap has a red flag too. As Port Royal has a blue flag and blue ship on the way, can it have a blue flag icon?
April 4, 2014 at 8:17 am #2160
Crazy Pirate
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Idea for town requirements (for the “needs 3 of these” section):

Towers
Walls
Shipyard (if costal)
Fort/Base
Tavern/Pub/Inn
Restaurant/Food store
Library

Hopefully these helped!
April 4, 2014 at 10:17 am #2163
GodsDead
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This isnt a thread to apply for a Town, This is discussion for requirements!

Yes, the flag icons was my initial idea, so each town could have its own colour, but then we are limited to 7 towns. Hence moving to one icon, we could use the colors to represent alliances between towns? But I don’t want to get stuck having to update these manually all the time.
April 4, 2014 at 1:47 pm #2164
Crazy Pirate
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Sorry for the application!
Maybe the best was then Tim’s idea, of an anchor. Or just first come, first served.
April 4, 2014 at 3:06 pm #2165
Theshiphoo AKA Frederik
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Excuse me for being danish but what is a beacon?
April 4, 2014 at 3:56 pm #2171
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http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Beacon
April 19, 2014 at 10:49 am #2291
SuperGL
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Just have a castle tower icon.

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April 19, 2014 at 12:49 pm #2292
Crazy Pirate
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Maybe each town has to design their own, or we could create a new one. Maybe each towns marker could be their initials-Pr=Port Royal,Np=New Providence, etc.
April 19, 2014 at 2:06 pm #2293
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Icon wise we will Just use the castle Icon or start with the coloured flags, I like the flags!

We need to get a solid set of rules sorted asap really, and a way for people to apply, Im adding a new rule that people need to have a group on the website to organise their town.
April 19, 2014 at 5:33 pm #2296
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Only 7 possible flags?! Maybe we could create some more flags with different colors. Will there be an official forum for applying, with the rules, etc.
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