Politician Archive
Thread: We Need City Information Vendors!
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Felth
Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:06 am
#2
I've seen rigged-up things like this when stepping off the shuttleport in an unfamiliar player city. A little merchant tent with directions and waypoints listed to the city's shops and facilities was really helpful as a visitor. A real terminal that could serve the same function would be really cool.
Drakessa
Wed Aug 18, 2004 12:33 pm
#3
I think there might be a relatively easy way to make player cities...
- more user friendly,
- better for merchants,
- ...and give politions something fun to do! 
We need to be able to place a vendor in the city hall in exactly the same way merchants do. Politions would be able to choose from all the different types of vendors, placeit anywhere in the cityhall they wish, have the options to dressand allowvendor barking(to allow for some personalisation)
Once the vendor is placed it would cost no maintaince,and instead of items it would just hold information and waypoints
The catagories would be:
- Facilities
- Shops
- Trainers
- Guilds
- Information
Facilities
If the users click on facilites they would get a list of all of the cities facilites (clone lab, med centre, cantina, garage, mission terminalsetc etc)
They would then be able to get the waypoints directly placed in their D-pads for whichever facility they choose. Politions would also be able to add a short piece of information for each item if they wish.
Shops
This catagory would list every stocked vendor within the city limits, even if they do not have the skill to advertise on the planetarymap. This would give merchantsa bigincentive to set up shop in a Player City rather than scatter themselves randomly around the countryside. Merchants would have the option to turn off being registered if they desired. Again a wapoint for each shop could be placedthe D-pad
Trainers
All city trainers would be automatically listed, with the auto waypoint option
Guilds
Any guild with a PA hall placed in the city would be listed, with space to write a small piece about the guild by the polition
Information
The mayor would have the oppitunity to list any city information they wish... player events, points of interest (museams etc), how to make a donation, how to join the city etc
The programming is already in place formerchants so this idea would only need a slight tweeking to allow politions to use it (i'm not a programmer so i could very probably be wrong...but its worth a try)
If you like this idea please feel free to add your constructive thoughts and use it in as many threads/forums as possible so it gets noticed.
Thanks!
Drakessa
Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:19 pm
#4
They could maybe even work like the V map rather than a vendor.
So a plan of the whole city would be shown (like the green one that shows up on the M map.)
The right hand menu would be split in 2 horzontally, with the catagories at the top (facilities, shops, etc etc) and informationabout the slectedplace on the bottom. Waypoints would be added in exactly the same way as on the V map.
I'd find player cities MUCH easier to navigate if I could have a quick look at a complete map.
Please comment if you agree (even if its just an 'agree!') ...so that we can float this idea at the top for a while until it gets noticed.
Thanks!
Thanos112
Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:02 am
#5
Over on Lok, I'm currently in the process of starting up my own city. One of the things planned was to have a house right by the shuttleport that was just for tourist info. A bunch of backbacks turned around so just the flat side was showing and then moved together to form a large square or rectangle can be used as a type of bulluiten board. Each backpack could have info on where a certain vendor is in the town, and what they could find.
Acantho
Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:37 am
#7
in Dohrian we have a vendor that kinda works like this.
But we aren't finished it yet. It has the laws of Dohrian listed in it as well as citizenship requests.
Soon it will have Items in it with waypoints and such. Though I'm not sure it's in the best place as it should probably be in front of the shuttleport. It's currently to the left of the shuttle by the clone center and garage. But I'm working on things
But we aren't finished it yet. It has the laws of Dohrian listed in it as well as citizenship requests.
Soon it will have Items in it with waypoints and such. Though I'm not sure it's in the best place as it should probably be in front of the shuttleport. It's currently to the left of the shuttle by the clone center and garage. But I'm working on things
Zeon_Zaku
Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:29 pm
#8
That would be awsome. Or even one that could be placed outside of the city hall, like maybe somewhere around the city outside.
Kyorlana
Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:11 pm
#9
We have a Tourist Info tent in Tirius that through use of items on a vendor, duplicates much of the information on the TIrius holosite so it is available in game. From trainer locations to city history, business directory to council information - it is all there. Event schedule is also supported with items but the shop sign of the tent changes after each event to advertise the upcoming one.
e.g.
\#00CCFF\- Tourist Information -
Council Meeting - Kima Alley
Sun 15th August 1pm eastern (6pm uk)
\#66FFFF\www.tirius.co.uk
We also sell t-shirts and pamphlets that people can take away for 100cr named with the city web address. On the vendor the description is:
\#00CCFF\Welcome to Tirius - the city of roleplayers!\#.
We hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful city. Whatever your interests, you are sure to find something to stimulate it be it one of the talented entertainers performing down the high street to the right in Event Horizon, or perhaps one of the businesses here is selling that item you have been searching for.
Feel free to take this with you for reference.
Tirius Tourist Information Centre
www.tirius.co.uk
e.g.
\#00CCFF\- Tourist Information -
Council Meeting - Kima Alley
Sun 15th August 1pm eastern (6pm uk)
\#66FFFF\www.tirius.co.uk
We also sell t-shirts and pamphlets that people can take away for 100cr named with the city web address. On the vendor the description is:
\#00CCFF\Welcome to Tirius - the city of roleplayers!\#.
We hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful city. Whatever your interests, you are sure to find something to stimulate it be it one of the talented entertainers performing down the high street to the right in Event Horizon, or perhaps one of the businesses here is selling that item you have been searching for.
Feel free to take this with you for reference.
Tirius Tourist Information Centre
www.tirius.co.uk
Drakessa
Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:55 pm
#10
I knowTourist Info vendors can made already with merchant...I keep my vendor stocked with little cubes with info about the city.
BUT it would be better if everyone KNEW that if they needed info they could just pop in the cityhall and get some waypoints. Plus its a royal pain in the ass to keep putting the cubes back on every month...and its an 'exploit' to have your Tourist guy in the cityhall! Madness!
It would also be great to give visitors a reason togo insidethe city hall. I've seen so many that are empty or just used for storage...which is just plain wrong, they're great buildings for displays! ...And on top of all this us Politions something fun to do once we've put all our buildings down
Give us info vendors!
PS. Nice site Kyorlana! Your java map with all the pics is awesome! Need more photos though...would love to see one of your main street etc
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