If you think about it, if new players had to be invited to a town, it would increase the need for assistants in towns. That means for somebody to join, an assistant, co-mayor, or mayor would need to be online. The assistant/mayor who invited the player would most likely give the player a plot and answer the questions the player has because the assistant/mayor is aware of the new resident.
~ @MeGustaYou
Yes, removing /t join would mean that every player would have to be invited by a mayor or whomever, BUT that will not change anything else that is trying to be solved by removing the option (cause the sign is not the problem its the rules)! In fact, what would happen is the opposite outcome of what you are trying to do! By removing the /t join option, the current 100's of players that join a town EVERY DAY (using that option) will NOT all get invited by anyone! Instead they will run around town spawn for 10 mins and log off cause no one added them to a town and NEVER come back! So removing the sign is like cutting off one of your legs! I mean, personally it dont' matter to me if we want to cut a leg off of towny, cause i'll just buy myself one of those fancy wheelchairs that i can control with my brain and be just fine. In the end im sure the staff will make a decision base on no facts thinking they are doing whats best when only time will tell. Do it! Don't do it! Meh!
+1 I feel that /t join should be removed. If a new player does /t join and there is nobody on to help them out. They wont know what to do. Most likely leave the server and not come back because they would be frustrated. Removing /t join would mean that players would have to use /t add which means there would always be a assistant+ on to show them to a plot and answer and question they might have.
~ @stottsbros_inc
I love when players quote their "feelings" about a topic! Feelings don't' mean anything, its cold hard facts! Your right players will leave the server if they don't get what they want in a timely manner, which included being added to a town. So when they can't simply /t join a town they will just leave cause they could not figure out what to do and no one helped them. The will NOT always be an assistant on or someone to /t add them! I sit in aplha spawn all day and see AT LEAST 50+ please spamming the sign 3 ore more times (over the course of about 30 mins). Guess what, 1/2 of those players are already in a town when I /res them, and those mayors don't have a /t join sign and still seems like they are treating their residents pretty badly!
Maybe only those towns with no Res tax or plot tax can have the opportunity to be an open town.
~ @DianaB72
This seems more like its a problem with the taxes then the the signs? I agree with you, the signs are not the problem its the taxes, causing players to be kicked from town before they can possible get their chance at a nice meeplife. Solving that problem is the answer not forcing everyone just to not have taxes!
Its not about that its about towns that essentially "trick" new players into joining them and having a high tax
~ @ScrubSilencer
This isn't the problem. The problem is people turning their town to public, setting the taxes ridiculously high, and advertising like hell, so new players get tricked and join the towns.
~ @metr0n0me
Again with peoples "feelings" and "guessing" I have yet seen ANYONE post any proof that people are being tricked or scammed or anything of that nature. I mean if we are blaming the /t join sign for players not know taxes before they join, then by default ANYONE that has EVER /t add a player that clicked the sign is CLEARLY in the same WRONG DOING GROUP for not telling that player the tax rate and explaining everything before they were added to town!
Yeah, we are trying to bandage up the 30-06 round you shot into every new player but we can only work so fast.
~ @Old_Pink
I was not going to quote this cause there is nothing FOR or AGAINST this topic! I mean come to think of it in the last year of meep you have been ban for 9 months because you can't follow the rules, AND out of your last 70 posts 69 of them were 100% trolls! Good luck!
This way, new players can be personally introduced to the server, and after they meet the mayor, they can make better decisions about staying in that town.
~ @leodavinci9000
I agree In a "perfect" world this would be ideal, but its never going to happen based on shear FACTS. Out of the 1000 new players the log on to meep every day, only like 10% probably less with actually stay longer then 1 hour. Out of that 10% only 1/2 or less will stay and play on meepcraft and most likely by ranks. Why? cause the 90% that don't say don't read signs big or small, don't reply to /msg even when you spam them, and barely reply when you run around and jump up and down in their face! There is not enough time in the day for mayors/assistants/whomever to personally interact on the "dream" level that people want! How, would we fix this? Easy, some kind of "plotme" feature would work nicely that give them a plot in that town and sets their /home for them (If town did not have any Open Plots for sale they can't get new residents)!
A bandaid is not going to stop you from dying!
We already know that it will be a long, rude, sarcastic rant that favors whatever fills your pockets, and attempts to justify ruining the playing experience for the new players.
~ @Dwizzle4269
Long (check), rude (check), sarcastic (check), pockets filled (double check), ruining experiences (Only Yours)...
