Rats Nest

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    I'm very excited to return home from work this weekend and see my POT for the first time. I have a Detriot parking garage that I want to base the lot design on.

    Horrible for parking but amazing if you're trying to build a rat's nest. :confused:
     
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    [​IMG]
    Too many trees to really grasp the size of this, but this represents close to 500 row lots. Rat's Nest version 1 is alive and well. Housing is available. :)
     
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    Ooo! Nice pic!!
     
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    The trees really make it look cool. About 500 row lots in less than 3 hours? Easy work. ;)
     
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    I'd love to make those swamp trees. The template also has way too many hills that make it a requirement to spread out the houses more than I'd like. Currently, due to the template limitations, the town has quite a few pockets of hilly forest areas that don't really make sense to me. I'd also like to see an option or another template that is more of an URBAN baseline....less grass and more cobblestones.
     
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    As long as the template changes don't affect me ;) Haha! I love my pocket of trees.
     
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    The Rat's Eyes
    A common story in Rat's Nest.


    When the Rat spied the Rat Catcher, he crept into the shadows.
    When the Rat smelled the Rat Catcher, he become motionless.
    When the Rat heard the Rat Catcher, he held his breath.
    But when the Rat was cornered by the Rat Catcher, he opened his eyes.

    When the Rat Catcher spied the Rat, he ran after it.
    When the Rat Catcher smelled the Rat, he made noise to scare it.
    When the Rat Catcher heard the Rat, he took a breath of determination.
    But when the Rat Catcher finally cornered the Rat, the rats eyes were one of many.

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    We're now working on approval of the instrumental version as a companion piece to the original.
     
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    I don't know what the devs did (maybe turn off dynamic lighting?) but it's been an amazing turn around. I'm super optimistic about the future of Rat's Nest.

    I hope people will come to Rat's Nest during R21 and "test it out". I'd love to get as much feedback as possible about stability and lag issues. I think it will help all POT's since mine is likely to be the most resource intensive.

    Also, please keep in mind that because of the island template I really couldn't design the POT even close to the way I wanted it to be. So I just threw everything I could find into it so I could see what kind of lag issues there might be. As soon as we have a new template I'll redesign it in full. Lastly, note that there are issues getting to Rat's Nest in general, and you have to go the long way around to the North through Norgard. That will also hopefully change "soon".
     
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    I was wondering if it had Thieves World influence. I like it.
     
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    A definite visit for R21!
    Still looking for a nice cozy spot for my row house and the Rats Nest sounds like the perfect place. :D
     
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    Please ignore the mess. It's kind of a Rat's Nest at the moment. :)
     
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    Rat's Nest is slowly evolving into 2.0.
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    Someday we'll have a POT template that can achieve what I want, but until then it's fun to play around.
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    I want to visit rat's nest soon.
     
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    You need actual sewer rats in your POT.
     
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    It's coming a long nicely. I've had a few people come out here and confirmed that the lag issues are GONE. That picture above only represents 1/5 of the town, and I'm working with a template that will not let me build in giant patches of land, so the concept is not holding together as well as I'd like. But I'm confident that the devs will eventually have more templates we can use and at least one of them should have all the flat land goodness I need to make this work.

    If you get some time, you should definitely take a trip out here, it's worth the look around, even in its version 2.0 state. :)
     
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    In its current state would you welcome a row house or 2 occupied to help with your visualization? I have a POT with Jatvardur so don't need any long term lots but i'm happy to help you out now for fun and maybe place a permanent lot there later after all the wiping is over. Your concept has always intrigued me, although i am a gentle soul with no real interest in PVP. The city itself makes me imagine the London of Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson somewhat.
     
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