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Aartan Ridge on Tatooine on FarStar does.

Just thought i'd share the idea with you here as I was quite pleased with it myself and now that it is up and running it has had quite a bit of good feedback.

What we have done it set up a merchant tent outside our shutlle port so it is the first thing people see when they come off of the shuttle. It's labeled as a Info Centre listing the vendors of the the city and inside is a vendor who has on them hand made fibre plast panels who's descriptions basically are as follows.

Vendor: Power in A.R.P.S at 2345 4567.

There are other types too, like amenities, council buildings and services bur all following the same style.

It takes a little bit of management to keep it up to date but it doesn't (so far) seem to much work, especially if it's proving useful.

We currently use a droid which has it's drawbacks as we cannot give a message explaiing what this vendor does, we have therefore but on another panel explaining the process (at least I think we have).

Anyways, just thought i'd share this with you as one way to add interest to you're city to make it more unique.

I have a merchant tent set up (just outside shuttleport ) named Galdor Welcome Center. There are shirts hovering inside with various bits of information...the waypoint for the Imp/Reb battle nearby, the URL for the website for the city and an offer to contact me with any questions.

There are a few other vendor tents in the immediate area, with the actual merchants from players in them.

Oh ... as information posts I did drop a fair number of Backpacks in the city hall as a noteboard ... this is because you can easily rename these items as many times as you want and can still work with /#ff00ff colors. But of corse the players have to know they are there and target them to read ... more information gives more lines (haven't tested if linebreak works - copy and paste from Wordpad to do this with house signs) ... also it counts against the city hall item cap which I don't even know what it is right now.

To fit these items better into the City Hall I placed them behind furniture Data-Terminals ... which kind of looks good but makes the travelpacks harder to target and read ... still have to experiment around with that.

I saw Gribble's visitor center and we're getting set to steal his idea.

If anyone wants to know where I got the idea from they can come here. I got it from Gribble. Thanks Gribble!

These are all great ideas! Another painstaking idea would be to have a house where you make a city map on the floor using little droid batteries... or maybe deeds for the big buildings You wouldn't have to place every building, just the vendors and important civic structures.

Then you could have a little object labelled "You are Here", just like a mall map.

Another painstaking idea would be to have a house where you make a city map on the floor using little droid batteries... or maybe deeds for the big buildings

How very Indiana Jones...

Will we be able to give players little staves that light up the spot they're looking for?

In all seriousness that is a cool idea in a thread of cool ideas. I'm going to talk to a Merchant or two when I log in about the tent idea, and if not that I may try to create a map room for kicks!

- Acroyear

We just did a city directory..

I placed 2 of those big globes statues (can't remember what they are called off hand) near the two pillars of our Naboo city hall and then put 8 streetlights around them that are named with pertinent information...

It has worked well.. and we color coded the lights so they look REALLY cool at night

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ChoNaguriai wrote:

These are all great ideas! Another painstaking idea would be to have a house where you make a city map on the floor using little droid batteries... or maybe deeds for the big buildings You wouldn't have to place every building, just the vendors and important civic structures.

Then you could have a little object labelled "You are Here", just like a mall map.

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Curse you ... now I'm actually planing on going through a several days long and painful process of naming 100s of items and probably endlessly trying to place them accordingly ... curse you