This server finally got me building again :o
Also the interest should be 0.1% or something, you can quickly get up to a million in some hours
We got our first millionaire about 20 minutes before me posting this.
I had a lot of fun playing on it today, and despite it being a little bit laggy (Which made building slow), I actually got into building stuff and having some fun, which I haven't done in Blockland for some time.
The current system in place does to an extent highly promote you simply idling for say, an hour, putting money in the bank, waiting another hour and putting any extra money you've earnt in. It's so so easy to earn money via the Banks interest rate.
And the money earnt by having bricks is very high too. Perhaps it was due to my brick-delay or due to my skills, but I never once found myself without enough money to continue building.
I constantly had more money coming in than I could build with. I know the point isn't to make you wait a day and an age to be able to build stuff, but it was still a bit too fast.
In about an hour or so I went from building a small bakery on a 16x32 to building a large office-tower-complex-thingy on a larger baseplate.
Some other points brought up while I was there was the lack of an admin to provide new lots. Often if the Admin is AFK or busy other people are left with nothing to do. Once Aludane left for the night we were entirely without new plots, so new players were left to build outside the lotted areas, in the hope that Admins could help them move them back into lotted spaces when they return.
There was a lack of understanding initially for people to get how to play the game, or where the Bank was. (Initially, with few buildings around, it's obvious. But when there's lots, it just blends in. It could do with a sign).
There was some comment on including the Duplicator if possible. On a slightly laggy server when trying to build with detail, you find yourself pained to do everything so slowly by hand.
Some players found themselves a bit lost as to what incentive they had to earning or spending money. Admittidely at this early stage in development there isn't a lot set out to force you to have to spend, so that will be tackled. It just seemed that some players didn't quite get the point of people making food shops if eating food made no difference to you.
The problem with the bank, although now fixed (waiting to be implemented), was a problem as a few people (myself included) lost a couple thousand via it, due to either leaving or by crashing at one point or another, in which case all savings within the bank were lost. This has been tackled though, so it's not really a problem.
There was a couple of cases however of someone being trapped in another players build.
The result being that the only way to get out (without an admin or the owner to free you) was to Self Delete.
This would in turn kill you, but also delete all of your money on-hand. Which, alongside the bank issue led to some people losing all money (as they weren't banking incase of accidental crashes).
The Day-Night/Environment settings were at times annoying. I personally found that when the Sun was at it's peak, mid-day, the light would be extremely intense, particularly on any bricks painted any shade of grey or white. It was blinding in some regards.
This was then followed with the darkness of nighttime, which was almost too dark to really build during, even with your own player-light.
Some players even resorted to "hiring" other players to act as a torch for them.
I personally would suggest that you try using an additional lights-pack, as the default lights themself can in some cases be too bright in smaller builds, and while you may want to light your building up at night, you don't want it to be as harsh and bright as the day time.
The transfer of money was perfectly well done, although the "dropmoney" command didn't work well. When droping any money you yourself would automatically pick it up straight away, rendering the dropping of it as useless. It probably needs a delay between you dropping it and it being capable of being picked up.
That's just a few of the rather minor issues that came about and were sometimes tackled while I played today.
But, overall I very much enjoyed the server, considering it's a Beta and you're still working out the gameplay mechanics of it.
It's certainly much more interesting than other CityRp's where you have to earn money via mundane tasks. You'll often find that no one bothers building much at all in such servers, yet in yours the focus is very much on building and many people were keen to test out great things.
I hope to return and finish off my office sometime soon. I really liked being on your server today. Thank you, and especially thank you to Aludane who was a great help today, and everyone else who made for fun discussion and humour.
