10-19-2011, 01:35 PM
We won't add decoration to custom houses or houses placed with deeds since I've seen lots of random decoration sitting around where someone had decoration and then redeeded the house or it decayed. There's also lots of random teleporters in the air for the same reason. We also don't do fences for the most part since people tend to add these to make forts or it could be used to block off areas and make safe recall areas or to take over a mine, etc. I remember on IN-X, we fenced in the entire swamp peninsula near Trinsic as our own.
Right now, I think there's a minimum of one space on the left/right of a house for it to be placed and three in front/back. So, if we allowed one space around each to be used as decoration, then people could build some sort of horizontal fort (on the X plane) to block off areas. So, we'd need to edit the script to increase the range, which could cause problems with already-placed houses.
I wouldn't be against adding a line or two in front of the house so that you could add some decoration next to the steps and not just on the steps, but I'm not sure how difficult it would be to edit that in the script. I'll let Taran respond to that.
Right now, I think there's a minimum of one space on the left/right of a house for it to be placed and three in front/back. So, if we allowed one space around each to be used as decoration, then people could build some sort of horizontal fort (on the X plane) to block off areas. So, we'd need to edit the script to increase the range, which could cause problems with already-placed houses.
I wouldn't be against adding a line or two in front of the house so that you could add some decoration next to the steps and not just on the steps, but I'm not sure how difficult it would be to edit that in the script. I'll let Taran respond to that.