Game news:Building

On Atharia staff allows players to build stuff of their own accord. We have set up a room off the OOC Hub, the room you start in after the agreement room or when you type +ooc. The ‘construction site’ is the exit labelled ‘CS’. Follow the instructions on the room for how to build you first room. We have no restrictions on how big your build is but keep in mind that if staff feels you are getting carried away (typically going beyond 10-15 rooms) with your build, we will ask you to scale it down a little.

That said, we have established businesses, homes, and apartments on grid that players can ‘claim’. You can ‘rent’ a room at Gods’ Blessing Inn off the Market Square, Throne of Gods Tavern off Bard Lane, or an apartment in Garden View Apartments off Knight Avenue. If a character is a roster staff generally tries to make it so they can plug and play right into having everything they need (sometimes we forget). So, they will start with a room and/or home.

All builds should be theme appropriate, which we’ve hopefully outlines well enough. You’re not likely to have top notch security with all the bells and whistles or ultra-modern stuff. The majority of Atharia likely runs on magic over technology, after all. So, lighting, computers, television, etc type stuff would be something done via magic and likely not ‘perfect’ or anything. You can 100% give indications of what the nameless masses are doing in your builds. Maybe they are renewing magic they set, maybe they are servants cooking, etc.

Businesses that are frequently used and multi-person owned homes/locales are unlikely to be removed from the grid without good reason. Individually owned rooms/homes will likely be removed when the character is retired/idled out unless the character was originally a roster.

What you need to put on all the rooms is &ea, &area, &outside=1 (or &inside =1) and %R%t (%R%r%t for new paragraphs) at the start and between every paragraph with a %r at the end of the description. All of these don’t have to be set by you, staff will either way. It just eases what we do. So, assuming you’ve followed instructions for your first room (if you plan on more and have set everything for it) you would do something like this for each additional room:

@dig Kitchen - My Place=KIT,O;out;exit (you can add as many aliases as you want)
Go through KIT to your new room
@desc here=%R%tThis is my place%r%r%tMore about my room.%r
&area here=Tranquil City (+areas if you want/need something different)
&ea here=<Street name or build name>
&inside here=1 (or &outside here=1)

That’s it. If building really isn’t your thing you can toss in a request with your description(s) and the room name(s) you want and staff will handle the building.