Potential Layout

I really like the idea of an easy and straightforward grid. Less IS sometimes best! It's the sort of grid I have worked with as a Build Wiz on a few games in the past.

Makes it easy as well for a very simple 'taxi' system as well, if you want to use something like that at all. Sort of a +go 10 will jump you straight there, etc.

It looks similar to a grid I designed elseMU*. I approve! I still get lost on KD.

Instead of making Sandbox rooms -- there is a bit of code that Road to Amber game used called +temproom

Wherever you were standing, you did something like, if I remember right:

+temproom/add <name of room>

It would then create the room off that grid, with an exit that you could then lock if it was for 'private' rp. Once people logged out of the temp room, it was cleaned out within like 5mins.

If folks want one of those to be one of their 3 permitted "rooms" then that's fine, the weird disappearing rooms. The Sandbox/RP rooms that are the catchall off of the OOC room, will be physical rooms and then they can change the desc in the room when they are in there. There's a way to have both, in the appropriate circumstances.

As for locking rooms, private residences can - Pretty sure there's a way to flag folks - be locked to the "owner" of the residence and if others want to come in, they can be summoned in if folks are concerned about people walking into their residences to interrupt private RP. Public buildings and rooms will not be locked.

It does, it honestly does. I jut personally, don't care for it. DB bloat is not an issue. Not with a limitation on rooms that each person can have. If folks want to stay at an inn, there's code for them to "rent" a room, and it toggles to them etc etc. This just shows that we have a plethora of options and we probably need to see what Val, Man and Helio want to toss their two cents behind and we go with that! And then I can suck it up like a big girl I jut really personally don't like the appearing/disappearing rooms.

To clarify, +temproom would NOT be on the grid in a public place. It would be something that could be entertained in the RP rooms off to the side of the ooc room (and I'm becoming less and less shuddery at the idea and quite liking that aspect since obviously, someone's in a room if there's a room made), or within an individuals private residence. You would move into the RP rooms/sandbox area and do it. Not, oh jump to the city center and "Man festival grounds, fuck yeah!" and create a temporary room within the actual grid in an actual public place. If - take the festival grounds for example - are wanted, and they're consistently wanted, then it's behooven by us, to actually make festival grounds. Because clearly it's a wanted feature. Rooms in the Mont, only some of the houses that might make sense like Mandrake and valerian because they are described as having theme rooms like a seraglio, a dungeon dungeon, and the like and to make them all might be a little redundant. There, temproom might come in handy. I'm coming around to them being in the mont's as well. But I really would like to not see, a massive amount of buildings with 'temproom" in public venues. In personal residences, sure, that's fine and perfectly solves the 'But I want to potentially RP in my kitchen so I need a kitchen!" and folks can have their two rooms and a "temproom" to account for that. But I shouldn't go to a district main room and "create a temproom!". Sorry. You want something that's not present jump OOC, slide left and temproom it up in the sandbox.

RtA does have an OOC area with staged rooms for RP, for the record. But it also does have +temproom, which is awesome. I liked its use in public, as well as in private.