I guess this is the place to discuss about islands and their problems rather than the General area.
Anyways, newbies are supposed to start at the main town, Asgard, but they don't.
What makes it really irritating for them is that they ofteny "get" to start in Alcatraz. Now how are they supposed to get to the main island?
I've got nosolution to the problem without "nullifying" the nice map desing.
After a newbie notices he cannot get anywhere from the place he started, he'll probably close A Tractor and maybe never starts it again, or uninstalls it.
Valhalla
it's a birth town problem more than likely.
i had the same problem in unfairness, where i built a town as a *goto point way off in left field, then demolished it, but people kept getting it as their birth town.
even if it's demolished, it still shows up in data\towns\ or whatever that path is. deleting that entry sometimes helps a bit.
best bet is to either say screw birthtown, make sure there's enough dry land in the center of the island, and set the spawn to that center-of-island option.
another good bet is assign them to teams even though you're not using the teams for anything, and set spawnzone 0 1 and 2 all to the same startblock.
val doesn't have any gov buildings anyway though. what's to stop them from starting a working econ in alcatraz other than a high level player just popping a few schools on that side? surely someone must have a boat by now...
i had the same problem in unfairness, where i built a town as a *goto point way off in left field, then demolished it, but people kept getting it as their birth town.
even if it's demolished, it still shows up in data\towns\ or whatever that path is. deleting that entry sometimes helps a bit.
best bet is to either say screw birthtown, make sure there's enough dry land in the center of the island, and set the spawn to that center-of-island option.
another good bet is assign them to teams even though you're not using the teams for anything, and set spawnzone 0 1 and 2 all to the same startblock.
val doesn't have any gov buildings anyway though. what's to stop them from starting a working econ in alcatraz other than a high level player just popping a few schools on that side? surely someone must have a boat by now...
Last edited by hedgehog on Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
