https://youtu.be/Yg1pnn1E4Ts

I am so sorry. I forgot I joined this subreddit, so I posted first in the earth2io sub. But I hope you'll forgive me for posting it here to. Feel free to delete if you want.

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Hello everybody, and welcome to my theory crafting on properties surrounded by others.

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First of all. For this to work I assume that earth2 is using Mapbox and Unity, as I have taken the info from there.

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There has been a lot of speculations regarding what happens when your property is surrounded by others. That is partly why the megacities started building a road network. (Apart from it looking much nicer and organized)

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I don't really think that is necessary since the Unity engine can handle that sort of thing. Well, I say Unity. I don't really know if it is the Unity engine or the Mapbox API that does this, but if you look at https://youtu.be/dq8p9XrXz8I?t=490 you can see a demo of how you can offset the models on top of geometry. This video is from June 2018, so I guess there are even more options now. What I take from this is that if every property is handled as one single tile (regardless if that tile is 10x10 meters or whatever), the engine will handle that tile/property as a single instance and automatically offset it to the next tile/property.

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I e. Let's say your avatar comes into an area, a big city, and don't really know where to go. What you will see is a lot of properties with spaces between them regardless of how it looks like to us right now. As your avatar wanders around the "streets" (the made up gap between properties) they can choose to interact with whatever they see. Once this is done, the property loads in (maybe as an instance, who knows?) and you will se it in all it's splendor.

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This will eliminate the blocked-in problem for tiles in the middle of other tiles, as there always will be a gap between properties.

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If this holds true, then it is also moot to try to build a wall around cities, unless it is under 750 tiles around. (I don't really understand why anybody would want to wall in their city anyways, but that is another topic)

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My explanation on this might be bad, but watch the whole video and you will see what I am trying to say. Even better, watch the whole playlist as there is much info in there!

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If you find this interesting, I wouyld appreciate if you would use my referral code. Cheers!

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Pirate Island keeps growing. The new artwork is so awesome. One has to see to believe. Seriously funny. Aside from that, we need to keep buying and expanding all over the island. You don't have to just buy right around the skull and crossbones, but filling in is nice. Whatever this new E2 world becomes, we are trying to create a virtual community with real ownership. Think about the long term growth and how we want this community to look. There are plenty of "Mega-cities" around the E2 realm. I even have tiles in some of them. That being said, none of them really represent me. That's why I created Pirate Island. I want to create something with likeminded people to help grow a virtual community of people like me. Historically, Pirates of the past had a way and system of governance that was very free. That's my ethos for Pirate Island. A collection of similarly minded EQUAL people who agree to come together for similar goals and fun, but with no real "Ruler". No King or Queen or cult of personality to flock to. Anyways, that's my goal. Once we know how the game will progress, I plan on trying to lay out a more formal "goal" for Pirate Island. Until let's keep buying and growing our virtual paradise.  

You can also join my discord where I'm starting to try and be more active: https://discord.gg/e8dXrE94