Short Introducton

Dear reader,

You might have seen my name around in the server.
WoM is the first server I play/build some buildings in.  It's more than awesome to build something, you can share 24/7 with anyone else who is interested. They can follow you, help you out or just watch you doing your thing. But once it finished, it's finished, you visit it a few times, show your great and earned result to others on the server, and then, you move on, building something new.

This last thing, is something which doesn't satisfy me, and I hope others share this feeling too.
Because of this, I thought about building a city, a living one, which is dynamic in his kind.
Building a city, isn't original, or making it alive by 'roleplay' isn't original as well.
Beside the 'roleplay' is only joyful for a small part of the community.
And once a city is build, and finished, and all the ground is used, you are back again where you just started.

So the question is, how can we make it living and dynamic?
Well this is what I came up with.

The Living Dynamic City

We all play this game, because we like to build thing. So that should be the main purpose of this city. That should be something which makes this city dynamic and living. For the ones who like to roleplay, they are always allowed to.

There should be some kind of forum where people can sign in into this project, and are allowed to start a living in this city.
Anyone who isn't signed into this project, can access the city, but will act like a tourist.
Every living citizen will need a house, a place what they can call home.

So they start with a small piece of ground, and can build a house inside their area.
The trick is, that we all need to start small. Later on, we can expand to bigger house lots, or we are allowed to build higher or deeper into the ground, to expand your house on your current lot. You are always allowed to change your house on your owned lot though.
When you are allowed to move to a better house lot, or area, will depend on some factor like time and availability of a bigger house lot, or some kind of currency (I think that's impossible)So with this, by just living your live, being active on the server, you can move to bigger lots, make bigger houses etc. While in meantime you can build, rebuild, decorate, redesign your house any time you want. Because every houselot will be in some kind of residence area, you will have plenty of neighboors to chat/build/show off with. Off course there will always be a competition who has the most beautiful house of their neighbourhood.
This, makes it dynamic, and living.

There is no live, without having a job. On the sub forum, you can make your own company's or work for others. As there is no currency, no money in the game, the employers need to use there fantasy to reward their personal, by either giving them a bigger office in the company, or let them allow more tasks or more difficult tasks.

Well what kind of jobs can we come up with?
a small selection I came up with:

- City Council: They (dis)approve new company's, and are responsible that the demand and amount of housing lots are equal. (so people can really build a house, or there aren't to many larger housing lots then really is needed)
- Brokers: They assign on the map the new housing lots, and assign company lots. This will be done by creating different lot sizes and  mark out their size by putting some fence around it.
This way, people can chose their lot they prefer. Also 'cheap' lots will have a limit of how high or how low a building may be. More 'expensive' lots, will have less strict limits.
- City Infrastructure: These men build bridges, roads, side walks and plant some trees to connect every household to every other building or company in the city.
- Environmentalist: They create lakes, to flourish the city, and connect them to several lots, so they are more 'expensive' and people need to work hard to be able to get them. Also parks, football fields or anything you came up with.
- Engineers: every household and company or state building should be connected to streaming water. Without water, you can't live. When a new lot is made, they need to assure that the owner of the lot can access the city water supply. What they do is digging tunnels underground, and connect all lots with water. Its a difficult job, one mistake, and basements will be full of water.
They can make 2 water ways if they want. one clean water, and one dirty water.
to make water look dirty, just use a dirty backdrop :)
- Architects: people you can hire to make advanced buildings. This is a sector with great concurrence.
Some people want to start for their own, and some people only want to get that madwomen job spot at the best architect company there is in town.
- Designers: Got so called saloon company's where they can show there new designs you can use in your house of company.
- Gamehost: Some one who host games like running or chess in a stadium.

and so on and on.

So in short you got enough things to do:
- Building your house
- redesigning your house
- Taking a job
- Doing your job, like building a park or a new water connection
- Get an office, redesign the interior of your office.
- start your own company
- Building your company on the map
- going to a larger lot, starting a new house,
and the list keeps going on.

I think there is no doubt that this will be a living dynamic city, and just by building, destroying, building again, redesigning houses company's etc.
Also public buildings like city halls, library's, courthouses etc. will be needed eventually. For that the city planners will open job spots, so freelancers can apply for a spot to help build the public building.
I bet you can come with some other great things as well.

Few problems:
We dont have a currency or money, so advancing to make a bigger company or house should be based on the following factors:
- House:
* amount of people living in the house, more is faster advantage.
* time you spend online, the more online the faster advantage.
* the global look of your house. it its a mess, it more likely you wont get a bigger lot.
* Your job function and succes.
* availability of larger lots, there will only be a few.
*....

-Company:
* amount of people working for the company
* amount of jobs done by the company
* amount of time the employees are online
* Global look of your company, if its a mess, its more likely you wont get a bigger lot
* availability of larger lots, there will only be a few.
*...

Other problems are
- there is no room for this on the main server :P

So what do you guys think?
I think it should be overlooked and tweaked here and there before it can become a living.
So if you got something, or if you think you already want to participate with this, please raise your hand :)