So while we are experiencing a low attendance time because everybody is checking out the new and shiny Vemnyal (or so the paranoid conspiracy theorists say), we figured it was a good opportunity to work on some enhancements for Lismore without inconveniencing the players!
First, let's re-visit the subject of moving the Zenko Springs to the [below] ground level.
I believe the same atmosphere can be maintained, and several prims can be saved if I move the Zenko Springs into the ground in the Zenko.
The argument against it was simply that people wanted privacy while in the springs (teh sexx000r!). As far as I remember, the defenders of that argument were always Erick and Ken. With Erick gone and Ken not RPing anymore, do people still want the "privacy" offered by the springs where they are, far up in the sky?
Vote, please!
Second, we flirted with the idea of offering actual rental spaces in the sim for people who wanted to have houses for their characters. Currently there are rooms available for anyone who needs them in the Commons House (aka. Lismore apartments) in the city, but nobody has a designated room they can call their own. With the new housing development, players would be able to rent a structure and call it their own. Rental rates would be the standard market going value of L$2 per prim, per week. We haven't decided on prim limits but it would be somewhere between 50 to 100.
The idea is to make a certain number of such rental structures available throughout the major parts of the sim (the city, the Temple, the Zenko, the Caves), so people can choose their favorite location to settle in.
The main argument against it back in the day was that people would rent space for themselves and not necessarily be In Character while they're at 'home', and we wanted to focus on IC time over casual OOC hanging out.
If you think making housing available would be a good option, or if you don't think it would be good, vote!
Everybody gets 2 votes, use them through the options on the pool. Please avoid voting multiple times for the same question.
The City Baths will be upgraded. As Nova pointed out, right now they are simply a large well. ...a well from which I hope people haven't been drinking from, because I know Sally visited those baths quite often....
The City Jail will be upgraded. A better model has already been designed for it a long time ago, but because of technical reasons at the time, we never got around building it.
If you have any ideas for infrastructure upgrades, post your ideas on this thread and we'll discuss it and if it makes sense, they might get implemented.