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Sixteen Regions

9/30/2013

 
Two more regions were added a couple days after the last expansion. I uploaded two more OARs. I decided to stop there with 16 regions and see how things run.

Two weeks later and things have been running smoothly. No further expansion plans though I would like to have a Victorian Steampunk region. I will have to look for appropriate buildings and furniture first though, so that is for the future.

I've got the regions sorted and most of the buildings placed. Lots of work ahead in furnishing the buildings. Here's a rundown of the regions...

Dankoville - A town that is the hub of a farming area. It's the third largest town in Strange County. Home to shops, restaurants, offices and other businesses. Arrival point for visitors is at the entrance to Welcome Park.

Hodgepodge - A little of this, a little of that. Suburban homes, a farm, parking for the area's biggest tourist attraction. (No, I won't explain that yet.)

Strange - A farm and the local Grange Hall are located here. Yes, the Strange Grange. (The Grange members have a silly song: "The Grange in Strange is mainly on the plain...")

Whitfield Crossing - A one-horse town. A farm, a gas station and convenience store, a train depot and a lot of cornfields.

Bakerville - A small town center (under construction) surrounded by farms.

Middle Sea - The name seemed obvious. I hope to have scripted vessels some day.

Winter Harbor - Snowy mountains with a river running through to a small harbor. It's perpetually early March in this region. Green grass at ground level, snow on the mountainsides. Some days it feels like spring but the nights are still nippy. I made this region for another project I was working on. Stole it from myself.

Winterville - It's mid-winter here. Currently I have Linda Kellie's Mountain Retreat OAR here. Eventually I'd like to build a small town here in a winter setting. I have also thought of making a winter version of one of the southern towns and putting it here.

Evergreen Island - Because there always has to be a place with Evergreen in it's name. This is a Linda Kellie terrain that I rotated and added trees and cabins to.

October Mountain - Perpetually autumn here. Searching for colorful trees to add. Linda Kellie's Country Cabin OAR.

North Wood - Wooded area meant to be a companion to the Medieval town of Carlisle. I've put a few homes here and it may morph into something unexpected but I will keep the trees.

Carlisle - A Medieval town. OAR by Giacomo Rexen of Craft World.

South Wood - In my original 3x3 layout, this was one of three testing regions. I just copied North Wood over to it temporarily. In no rush to figure out what to do with it. It was the region most likely to be replaced but I'm working on a bridge from Carlisle to South Wood so it's probably not going anywhere soon. However, if I ever have a Victorian Steampunk region, it will probably go here.

Peninsula Island - "Peninsula Bay" region OAR by KatiJack Studio with a Linda Kellie house on it. Haven't had a chance to give any love to this region yet. Will add vegetation and other items in time.

And there are two other reg
ions, North Sandbox and South Sandbox, whose purpose should be obvious.

Expansion!

9/19/2013

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That didn't take long, huh?

It's just been running so smoothly. And different ideas were coming to mind. Remember, I just sort of jumped into this idea of having a standalone mini-grid...it was unexpected so there was no master plan.

I was looking at what I had so far, looking at my world map and thinking of possible storylines for my RP blog and of storylines I was already pursuing but which I never had enough land to actually build out...and my new world had been running non-stop for six days, no problems, no lag....and I got to thinking, "What if..." 

So this morning Dankoville has five new regions. Yeah. And some of the existing regions have new names and look like they are going to be more permanent than I had thought. And I moved the testing regions offshore.

The story ideas are making the map of the Greater Dankoville area come together. 14 regions total now. A dozen Mainland regions and two sandbox regions away from the Mainland.

My friend from Devokan, Ruby O'Degee, calls this process Storybuilding. That is exactly what I was doing when I started the two projects that led to putting Dankoville onlin
e. And now there is more space to build and grow the story.

I know where it's going. It will be fun to work toward getting there...and then seeing what that leads to. But there is no hurry. The process of getting there is too much fun to rush.

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Day One

9/8/2013

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Yesterday I had no idea I was going to do this.  It was a series of things that led up to it. Then it just sort of happened.

It's not like I hadn't thought about it before. On the other hand, it's not like I had any kind of plan either.


Using Sim-on-a-Stick,
 I'd been working on a one-region small town theme that I was going to eventually put on Kitely. I also had a four-region version in mind. All of a sudden I'm thinking about putting it online myself, using New World Studio.

I kicked it around for a bit in my head. Decided on a 3x3 - nine regions to play with. The one-region town would be the arrival point and I'd gather up some OARs I'd collected and steal a region from a larger project I'd been working on in SoaS and put those up. And whatever regions were left over I'd use for sandboxes.

And I saw the land and it was good. And I called that land, DankoLand! Did sound a bit over the top. It's just a little blip on the virtual map of the Megaverse.


Okay, let's stick with Dankoville.

And see what happens...


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