Try with 4, 5, 6 trees close together.

I was able to cut down up to 12 Birch trees with an iron axe before, now it says "the tree is too large".
If you need wood to build, now it takes a lot more time to gather it and using bonemeal is simply a waste.

This same thing happened in V5 but it was reverted right away (I helped testing different sized "forests" with Foob at that time to avoid the "tree is too large" error).

Anyway, let's avoid going completely off topic

Most of what you said is what I already posted in multiple threads probably using differnt terms.

The main thing I disagree with is about "normal mining": currently that way of playing is actually rewarded.

The problem is that it's also the only thing being rewarded and everything else is automatically compared to
mining/digging.

That's the reason why prices for non-mining items are perceived as too high: there is no equal reward for the other activities at the moment and every hour spent not-mining will give you less reliable noobz than just mining and the logical reaction is to set prices high enough to offest this situation.

I don't mind having to deal with the economy but as I've said many times, I want more stuff to do and equal rewards for my time.

Another important point is that by coping with the current situation you could have no need for the P2P economy at all.

Gathering resources yourself, avoiding to spend noobz and at the same time making noobz from selling cobble and dirt works so well that you can ignore the market completely.

Some players were able to generate enormous amounts of noobz in a few days, even when no one was buying anything at all in the open market.

Diamonds sales came only after some people already had ~50% of a town's price and undercutting diamonds sales work only because there's a fixed price to undercut in the /shop.

I was getting a 522 error showing failed connection between CloudFlare, based in Frankfurt, and Noobstown.com a few hours ago.
Connection from a US proxy was working fine, but it doesn't exclude a more widespread problem.

The admins can do nothing but wait until the host (and all the middle companies involved) will solve the problem.
If this is the same thing as before, they really have some serious issues on their lines.

Placing a limit on the maximum number of chunks shouldn't be needed since the goal was to limit how many you can get by having a steep increase in price, so the whole thing would end up balancing itself thanks to economy. (assuming the economy is working as inteded)

However, now the prices could really be too low.

If the 78th chunk costs 311k as reported, it's not too far fetched to think most players will be able to claim 50+ chunks in a very short time and that may not be what the admins had in mind.

If you took a look at the top 20 in noobz, you'd see that the ones focusing on towns and chunks are mostly stalling themselves since everything they get goes into expansion.
Basically, they can get 20 chunks in a few days, get some money back and be in the same initial position.

With a growing economy -something that isn't really here yet, imo- the more money you have the more money you can make so even the if price goes up, you should have ways to increase your potential at the same rate.
Without any price cap, you'll be forced to keep growing to keep up and that's fine (again, asssuming the economy is working).

With lower prices and a 2M cap, rinse and repeat that "buy chunk, get money back" process a few times and you get a very plausible scenario of ~40 players with 60-70 wild chunks.
You don't need to keep your growing rate stable, you just need a stable amount of income (much easier to do with a growing capital in the same situation as above).
Keep going and the number will go up as more and more players (even the slower/less focused ones) will be in the same situation.

That's why my impression was mostly negative: if that situation was intended to be delayed as much as possible, with the new model it will happen in a month or two.

I don't know if that's ok or not but there's no common ground in the two models.

My first impression is that given the difference between the two models, one of them is most probably horrible. Or both.

It *should* be fairly simple to just revert the situation to what it was before.

I've been suggested to take screenshots of the town size daily and use those as proof but in all honesty that is nowhere near being acceptable.
There isn't just one person handling the whole town in most cases and it would become nearly impossible to compare data that way due to different time schedules/zones.

Since this could happen again after a fix if nothing changes in the system, it would be better to have a way to rollback chunks claims (and only _claims_) and avoid losing progress considering the amount of time needed to plan and build a town.

As a non written rule we decided to mark Dracomere's borders with wooden slabs, so it's fairly easy to see where the lost chunks are at the moment.

It could be really helpful if, when claiming a new chunk, slabs spawned automatically like they do in the Wilderness world.

Cobblestone is infinite and by far the easiest block to get (sand is faster to dig but can be harder to find). All the other blocks are infinite too since the resource world reset monthly...

Using saplings as an example:

Gathering large quantities of cobblestone/sand requires as little work as saplings and other stuff do.
You will actually get more cobble than saplings in the same amount of time, especially with enchanted picks, since you'll need a stable input of bones to keep the trees growing.

The number of saplings you can get per tree is limited and the more trees you stack together the less leaves (and thus saplings) you'll get.

You will still get stacks in a few minutes, but you can also get stacks of cobble in a few minutes and also coal and iron as an extra (I'm leaving out gold and diamonds on purpose).

Another problem is that a lot of people just talk in /town now that there are some active towns and it generates a lot of spam in that world.

No one needs to read 20 lines long discussions from other towns people that won't ever use /local or /msg for some reasons.

Same goes for a lot of guests and new members that don't know how to use the channels.

Seems to me it creates more problems than it tries to solve (keyword: tries).

I experienced that problem at least twice this week, connecting from Europe (GMT+1).

Good to know the issue has been solved.

Seems at this point with the /shop being so limited and no one is buying anything because we all just want to fill our bank accounts, Noobs are incredibly difficult to make unless you are strictly aiming for the basic blocks.
I personally miss being able to sell Wood to the server shop.

Finally someone that thinks the same as me 

I understand the problem of having an inventory full of stone that you can't easily get rid of without wasting noobz and smooth stone should have at least double the value of cobble considering the costs of smelting or mantaining a Silk Touch pick.

Sooner or later everyone will be in that situation.

I agree with everything except the shipping costs.

Basically, keep a more limited command like /gift where the receiver needs to empty the inventory to open the box so that it becomes too slow to use as a default delivery system.

This helps when wanting to send a little appreciation gift to someone or even just to send something that you already know they'll need without the need to tell them beforehand and arrange a proper trade.

This inventory limitation alone should be enough to prevent a substitution of the auction system, or maybe even limit the system to just 1 slot no matter what but still free of charge.


A proper drop box system instead should have some minor fee and offer both a payment for the package and a"return" option.
In case of return the fee should still be payed by the initial sender, to prevent easy spamming.

I think the gift command should be made permanent if it's not already (and unrelated to general celebrations) since it's a nice way to surprise people.

After all it requires the receiver to empty all the inventory so it's not going to substitue proper trades: no one would want to waste time opening a lot of boxes one after another and you can't tell what's inside until you open it.