Building and Bases (Rules)

There are limitations in place for personal and clan building. These limits include the total number of build parts, placeables (deco), crafting stations and lighting. Further aesthetic restrictions are in place for us as a role-play server.

General Rules

It is important that we maximize role-play opportunities and thus request everyone to build within the preferred build zone. This is not a requirement unless you are intending to recruit players to your location.

You are not allowed, in anyway, to divide the player base. This includes, but is not limited to, attempting to create/recruit a new/separate/independent outpost/village/town/city outside of the preferred building area. (Personal homes and small clans are fine. Anything more than that is not allowed. Expansion is planned by the server team based on the current server population and server storyline.) 

Our goal and needs are clearly explained here: 

Limits

1. Two Bases per clan. That's a home and a shop. Do not scatter items all over the map. They cause lag and restrict other players from building in the area.
2. Homes within the town limits of Vargor (the white circle) may not exceed 8x8 tiles. All deco must be ON a foundation.
3. 200 build parts per person
4. 100 placeables per person
5. With a MAXIMUM of 2500 build parts and 750 placeable per clan. (Note: this is a lot of building parts and can generate a lot of lag, we reserve the right to require changes if this interferes with other players playability.)
6. One of each type of crafting station per clan. This includes Campfires, Wheel of Pain, Stables, Deconstruction Bench, Preservation Box and Fashionist bench. Some benches are craftable and some can be purchased at the OOC Area.
   (Additional preservation boxes can be obtained at the expense of the overall container count. Giving up five (5) general containers in exchange for each individual preservation box. Update 03/16/24.)
7. Three containers per person - just having containers causes lag.
8. NO base game lighting or lighting with flame flickering. Too many lights cause lag, reduce to the minimum, and switch to Shani's lights. Most crafting benches are not available to players for use in their homes/bases.
9. No bed rolls in dungeons: Bedrolls in dungeons have caused more issues than anything because they glitch the respawn and can cause the server to eventually start crashing out.

Aesthetics

At an absolute bare minimum your base/home must actually look appropriate to a medieval or Gorean building. Ideally your build should be created with role-play in mind. The following guidelines are in place to maintain the immersion of the server.

If you are not a skilled builder and/or can not decorate -- please build away from RP Hub(s), caravans and roads. Or get help!

1. Our RP Hub(s) will have their building styles enforced. If you have built in such a location unintentionally, please open a ticket and we will help you find a new place and rebuild.
2. Roads should be remain clear and usable.
3. There are some building styles in game which are pretty over the top when used predominantly in a build. Frontier and Black Ice have some useful parts but are not acceptable for an entire building. Halfling has a lot of really usable parts, but don't try and create a hobbit hole please.

Pippi Move

If you would like Pippi Move functionality added to your account, you will need to register and then open a ticket. Pippi move is not granted to everyone because it can be abused, abuse of the Pippi move function would count as a cheating. We will confirm you understand this when requested. Pippi resizing must be limited to no more then 50% larger or smaller with some exceptions. i.e. don't use it to make one of Shani's tiny tools even tinier so no one "can find it".

Building Services

If you do not have the DLC items you wish to build with, or do not have the skill to build, we will (Admin) build for you. We work best from pictures of actual builds or with good concept art.

Enforcement

If you do not register and we do not have a way to contact you off-line we can not be expected to wait for you to log in. We will remove items that break our rules without notification in such cases. Otherwise we will give you 72 hours to make the changes requested yourself.

What we won't enforce

• This land is small -- 7 to 8 passings in each direction. We are not going to force a Tahari player to live in the desert nor a Red Hunter in the arctic.
• We are not going to enforced the aesthetics of deco (placeables), especially if they are behind walls.

Homes within the City Limit

There is an city outline for Vargor on the Conan game map overlay.

If the plot can hold it, maximum size is 8x8, which is approx. 65 first floor foundation tiles - INCLUDING external patios and such.

The intention is for single family dwellings without defensive walls. Please do not try to build forts or castles in town. One plot per person

• Can not go over the road. Can not crowd the road. Leave at least one tile between the road and the foundation of your home.
• Do not build into the lake over the water. Exception: You may build 2 pier tiles into the lake.
• Most of the town of Vargor is single story, if you want two story, build near the edges of the city limits so it you don't loom over town buildings. Houses in the districts are 2.5 stories - see next.
• Can not exceed two and a half wall heights. This is typically a first floor of 1.5 high and a second floor of 1 tile with an peeked roof. Roof is additional, but think cottage not english estate or castle.
• Must match the district walls, this means tavern, poor and bank in Vargor. Greek/Roman and Asian in Argentum. Viking in Torvald and Arabic/Desert in Turan. There are lots of styles for each them, please compliment.
• No boring square buildings - no need for Tier 1 sandstone as building kits are free. Must be medieval town appropriate buildings.
• Please avoid base game lighting and use Shani's lighting which is significantly less laggy.

We will build for you. We will roof for you. The town is the FIRST place players arrive. And while we WANT you to build in town - it has to look nice or we will drive people off. Most role-players require attractive areas to role-play in. We have to enforce this for the good of the server.

If your idea does not work in town, we CAN try and move the build for you.

Not Allowed

You are not allowed to exploit the game mechanics at the expense of game play and fiction. It is one thing to build a defendable base, it's another to build one that is inaccessible or unassailable.

1. You are not allowed to build in naturally inaccessible or unrealistic locations such as on top of a tower or giant cliff. Specifically, if you can not be attacked during a siege you can't build there.
   
2. You are not allowed to construct homes where the mechanical game protection exceeds what is reasonable and immersive -- such as four tile thick walls and back to back draw bridges. No more than two lockpickable gates should be used to restrict access to the main part of the base.
3. All doors and gates must be lockpickable. If you use a door or gate which can not be lock picked then it must be set unlocked.
4. You are not allowed to construct unassailable bases -- such as stuck high up in a cave that can't be damaged by normal game mechanical means.
5. If there is a road -- build along side it or at the end of it, not ON it. (Exceptions for story arcs maybe allowed.)
6. All of the hubs have building aesthetic/material restrictions, know them!

Blocking Resources

It is acceptable to build with the intention of controlling a particular resources AS LONG as you are regularly available for the role-play of trading or fighting over that resource. You must be able accommodate others access to the resource -- even if that means winning a fight to keep them from it. If this does not happen we will over ride the building damage settings and allow the players to damage your building - even if you are off line.

See Also

• Building Tips & Tricks

Season Four

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