As the thread title implies, this thread is posted to inform the players of massive impending reconstruction efforts in the west of Regalia that may come as a controversial surprise to players. Over the past years, the separation of the Sewers and the Surface Roleplayers has steadibly become more extreme, up to the point where both universes seem almost completely separate, with minimal to no interaction between the two. One could argue a direct connection could solve that problem, but after successive meetings, we've come to the conclusion that the problem is far more deep-rooted than just a lacking instant teleport connection, these are the problems we found:
This is, in the simplest of terms what we are going to do about it:
- The population has shifted, while Regalia is much larger, it contains only 40% of the roleplaying population while the other 60% is in the Sewers. This goes against our ethos, that we want all our roleplayers to be centrally located in one world, not split between two.
- The population originally "exiled" to the sewers was sent there because of rampant powergaming and god roleplay. We are now more equipped to handle those things on the surface level, and believe that sending them down into an ill law enforced world, where powergaming eventually became the norm, was a mistake.
- Because of the departure of the sewer manager from staff, we no longer have a centralized organ of management for the Sewers as a whole.
What will be the benefits of this?
- We are going to slowly phase the Sewer world out of existence.
- To replace the Sewer world, we will build a large slum/poor district west of the centre of Regalia.
To achieve this, we are doing the following:
- Allowing direct movement between the districts allows for passive RP to form, to allow you to find roleplaying mobs more easily.
- Allowing direct movement between the districts will allow for actual Crime-rp to take place in the surface, and then run through the streets to the Slum district.
- Sewer Roleplayers wont lose any of their freedoms that they had in the sewers, and will infact gain the ability to directly interface with the rest of the city, if they walk beyond the road area.
- By redoing the park, we are going to actually produce a park instead of just a silly ringroad around an artificial lake. Over the years, the park has suffered a lot of extra buildings that made the greenery area less, and the builded area more. We want to bring back some of the old grass fields and flower fields that were present in the Regalian park of Regalia V1.
- By playing more with height, we can make some more interesting structures in the slum district. Some of them will still be underground, but we can also work with the verticality of for example building wooden scaffold housing up against aquaducts, or putting houses in dried up riverbeds.
Obviously, one might thing losing the sewers is a big deal, but it won't be:
- Evicting large numbers of houses to accomodate a new road network leading to this district for easy access. The goal is a straight road from the Regalian tavern to the front gate of the slum district.
- Complete reconstruction of the Regalian Park to turn it back into an actual park instead of the busy packed housing district it is now. Image larger flower fields and grass areas for picnics and more larger trees.
What happens to the people who have houses that will be evicted above ground?
- We will issue a full free new base with 2 months for free for all current base holders. Additionally, these bases will be either the same size, or up to twice as large!
- We will additionally build another 15 bases which will be claimable in a similar manner as those that were claimed before, for a grand total of 30 bases.
- We will rebuild a large number of houses, currently there are about 100 small rental properties in the Sewers. The slum will likely not have that many, but certainly approaching 70. We assume most people won't mind too much losing their 5x5 house rental, and all players who are evicted will receive their entire rental period + 2 months on top as a refund.
- A new central "Sewer Tavern" will be built in an underground area in this slum, but it will be in the same world as Regalia proper.
- All facilities, like a black market and Maiar waterways will be built in the slums also to ensure that all services currently offered by the Sewers will also be present in the slums.
- Additional tunnels will connect all areas that have sunlight to allow Vampires to skulk around in the darkness.
- Guards will be barred from ever entering this slum district, meaning it will essentially function 100% like the sewers, but be less filled with poop and have some more fresh air.
We will commence Stage one in exactly 2 weeks, meaning evictions will start on the 15th of May. Players must clear their belongings from their housing by that time, or the content will be deleted. Players also have until that time to indicate that they wish to claim a new house, otherwise all refunds will default to a Regal Cash refund of full months rent + 2 months.
- There are currently 4 stages described as: Stage one, the priority One park housing, Stage two, the Second stage Park housing, Stage three, the Old Gods district housing and the final stage, The Sewer eviction.
- Stage One will feature some of the priority housing. These players get to choose either a free new house in a similar area, or a refund equal to total months rent + 2 months for free.
- Stage Two will feature some of the second priority housing. These players get to similarly choose either a free new house or a refund equal to total months rent + 2 months for free. We may however have only limited housing available for the second priority housing section in the park district, so we may have to to do a lottery who gets a house refund if too many people ask for a free house return, and send the leftovers to the South river district for a free house when we run out of them.
- Stage Three will feature the Old Gods District housing. The people owning these houses may additionally ask for a house refund or a refund equal to the total months rent + 2 months for free. The limited availability of housing replacement in this district may similarly result in some house owners being asked to move into housing in the south river district instead, which has a roughly similar walking distance to the Tavern from the Old Gods District.
- Stage Four is when the Sewers are shut off and the Sewer bases are immediately refunded with a free new base (for 2 months) and 15 new bases going on sale on the forum through a claiming system. We will refund all Sewer house owners with a full refund + 2 months of rentals, but we will not offer them a free new house due to the size of those houses.
Here is a link to the rough deadline for Stage One to commence.
You can find out whether your current house qualifies for Stage One, Two or Three below. We ask that if you are a PVP'er or a Faction survivalist who does not need their house for roleplay, to please just ask for a Regal refund instead of a House refund. Additionally if you didn't need the house that is being evicted below, also please ask for a Regal refund. We would like to focus on the players who need their housing for roleplay:
Stage One
Stage Two
- parkroad11 @HodlinG
- parkroad10 @mayino
- parkroad9 @LlamaDelBae
- parkroad8 @hongkongmadaviet
- Lakeroad1 @EmzySloth
- Lakeroad2 @Blitz_Miner
- Lakeroad3 @KoopaJr
- Lakeroad12 @_Malou
- Lakeroad4 @TheIronCheese
- Lakeroad5 @CptSilvyrall
- Lakeroad6 @Chopslang
- Lakeroad7 @TeenyBeanieQueen
- Lakeroad8 @IllegalPlums
- Lakeroad9 @FaithEmber
- Lakeroad10 @TheBioverse
- Lakeroad11 @Cutiegal
- Westwallroad1 @Nixces
- Westwallroad2 @__Kitsune__
- Westwallroad3 @nattiecece
- Westwallroad4 @Koolkitten22
- Westwallroad5 Was already Empty
- Westwallroad6 @TheButterPaw
- Westwallroad7 @MacabreRoses
- Westwallroad8 @Emo_Bunny
- Westwallroad9 Was already Empty
- Westwallroad10 @LipMae
- Westwallroad11 @Chrome_Eevee
- Westwallroad13 @VintageMystic
- Westwallroad14 @SidereumDragon
- Westwallroad15 @SidereumDragon
- Westwallroad16 @Ponyroc
- Westwallroad17 Does not Exist
- Westwallroad18 @SkullKiid
- Westwallroad19 @Chrome_Eevee
- Westwallroad20 Was already Empty
- Westwallroad21 @Zerica
- Westwallroad22 Was already Empty
- Westwallroad23 @Varisus
- Westwallroad24 @PariahFolk
- Westwallroad25 @KoopaJr
Stage Three:
- Parkroad15 @Phon_Senajan
- Templetonroad1 @starpoo1
- Templetonroad2 @ScaledSupremacy
- Templetonroad3 @OffSeason
- Templetonroad4 @SlyChung
- Templetonroad5 @UprisingCactus
- Templetonroad6 @KomajiroMoon
- Templetonroad7 @HydraLana
- Petuniastreet8 @DJPLayzMinecraft
- petuniastreet7 @VintageMystic
- Petuniastreet6 @Genecide65
- Petuniastreet5 @TheCraftingenius
If your name was mentioned above, please simply post to this thread if you want a free 2 month house rental refund. Note, you will not get to choose where this house will be, but we will try to place it as close as possible to where the old one used to be, or place it within an equal walking distance to the tavern as the old one was. This service is only available as long as supply lasts, so we may have to place some people some houses further away from these places than anticipated but generally speaking the new houses should be better and larger.
- Longwindroad10 @Lord_Maydagan
- Longwingroad9 @EdgyMinc
- Longwindroad8 @Femma
- Longwindroad7 @Erzly
- Longwindroad4 @Legoclub22
- Longwindroad3 @thedreamingdead
- Longwindroad2 @KeysReborn
- Longwindroad1 @BrammekeH
More Information on the Sewer evictions will follow separately at a later stage.
So I currently own a sewer house/base, what should I do?
- Continue Roleplaying! The actual evictions for the sewers may well be beyond a month away, if not even more.
- A 2 week notice will be posted on the forum when it's time to start worrying about clearing your belongings.
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