Dev update 1.6.2014 (CoMayors, Plot Permissions)

CoMayors

• Each town can have up to 3 mayors
• /t set mayor command has been removed
• /t promote and /t demote now work with mayors
• Demoting the mayor that is King will assign a new King from the remaining mayors of the town
• All mayors have equal permissions. There is no 'top mayor'.

Plot permissions

• example: /Plot set permissions USE P (sets the plot to have Public USE permissions)
• You can now override the permissions on a single plot. This is useful for Town plots such as Farms, Vaults, RailRoads, etc.
• Any resident can change the USE and EDIT permissions on the plots they own
• ACCESS permission can only be changed by town staff

Horses

• Made it free to use /horse assign with anyone in your town
• Removed the /horse release command
• Made a minimum sell price of 100 dei at the horse market
• You can no longer buy your own horses from the market
• The Type of horse is now displayed in the results on /horse list

Bug fixes

• Wooden buttons weren't protected at all
• Changing plot settings such as Pvp and Mob Spawning no longer require a server restart to take effect
• When joining or leaving a town your TC channel would become incorrectly set until you relogged.

Enhancements

• Removed fees that were charged when you set your Res or Town ACCESS permission to any non-public value.
• Cleaned up /Kingdoms prices
• Added some chat message colors and improved phrasing - let me know if you find others that could use updated.
• I now teleport you to server spawn if you're stuck in a plot that you do not have ACCESS permission to be in.
• Total page count is now shown on town and resident ledgers

 

You can thank heinz and bcc for the plot perms.. they both sent me mail suggesting it as a feature enhancement I think Yogs & Barry also suggested it many months ago, but they request so many other features that some get forgotten

Yea, the only way to get rid of a horse is to kill it now. Reasoning behind the change is that it had become common for people to use Release as a way to do free horse reassignments. The minimum price and blocking the purchase of your own horse was also to limit some other common exploits of the market. Free town reassignments was to help out towns that give a free horse to new residents.

 

As ryan said, you can certainly get demoted by your other mayors. Each mayor has the same amount of power and there is no concept of an 'actual mayor'. When you're promoting someone to be mayor you're basically saying you're going to share full responsibility of the town with them. If a town matter occurs, the server staff will consider a ruling by any mayor to be absolute. The voice of all mayors does not have to be heard (with the possible extreme exception of town deletion). Promote wisely

 

Yup, they must be a Lord.

 

mobspawn: Yea that seems like a logical and fair request. There's one problem though.. in the database each Plot already has a mobspawn & explosions value. So, if we make them have a town setting then you'll already have it overridden on every plot. In order to have a clean migration path, i'd have to leave those existing settings in place. You'd be able to use /plot clear-permissions on a plot to make it inherit whatever the Town setting is. You'd have to do it on all your plots in order to have the town setting really have an effect though.

Horse:

• Wait 30 days for the sale to expire and the horse will be returned to you.
• Set the sell price to that will get someone to buy it.
• The reason there's not a command to remove your horse from the market is that it will allow for a free horse teleportation exploit: /horse sell .. /horse remove .. go to new location /horse claim.

Lol, don't forget your sunglasses

 

1: yea this would be part of the plan.
2: likely wont do this one. I don't want to wipe out any plot settings that a mayor may have already set.

I'll add in a /town clearAllPlotPerms command. This way towns that don't need their old plot settings can just wipe them away and just set it at the town level.

I think i'll be excluding PVP from the town-wide settings.

 

Alrightie, i'll pass that along. It's also worth noting that currently only one mayor will receive their noble salary.

 

Well, not exactly. The noble salaries are based on the amount of money the town brings in via taxes. This tax money is divided amongst the town staff. The code was checked to ensure that the comayor feature wouldn't be a way for towns to increase their income, but it was found that it was already coded to only pay a single mayor so it wasn't updated. The payment formulas will either need adjusted to accommodate multiple mayors, or simply changed so that additional mayors are treated as assistants.