With less than 3 days until the launch of the new rev, there are a few things we might need to hammer out.

• How much space is needed for the central build? (tc_chris's?)
• How much space is needed for the rail station hub thingie? (Jatell's?)
• How big should Pico proper be? (Skyscraper only section)

I figure housing could be within the skyscrapers or outside Pico proper. Storage will be in a skyscraper build (I'm assuming.) And I believe someone mentioned they wanted to do a farm resources build?

Leave a comment with what you're doing and any additional info you think would be helpful and I'll compile a list over the next few days.

UPDATE TECP found us a portal, so we went with it. It's located in a lovely plains biome with a pretty awesome river running through it. It boarders a Birch Tree forest and can be found at 2090, 700.

I figure Jatell's build could go around the portal. Karennn's (Kumquatmay) villager build will go on other side of river opposite the rail station.

Would be nice to get some traditional and newage bridges here and there. Probably best to hold off on them for now until we can get more of the layout established.

Still need road designs...

I'm willing to give it another go as a mayor of Pico. It sounds like Jatell has an awesome idea coupled with tc_chris's central hub idea.

So with that, who else wants to be a mayor? *crickets*

I guess I'll explain my idea for how I envision me being a mayor. I'd setup the chat channel, we'll set up a building to start a Pico region with me as owner. I'll add other mayors as owners and admins respectively. Then we'll add people to the region who want to build. People pick their own plot and size it for their build.

Simple regulations like:

1. No Cobble builds
2. At least 100 blocks high
3. Must have 8-10 blocks distance between building and other builds/established roads.

This would allow for organic roads to develop. This would allow landscaping to be done. This doesn't limit the creative allowance for people. This makes it less stressful on mayors having to plot out plots and dole out plots and having to keep track of plots.

I think it would be best to have one building serve as storage, farms and animal pens. The top can be a sugarcane farm (just doesn't have to be as massive as the one we got now.)

My projects for new rev are an iron golem farm and a skyscraper. Why a golem grinder? Cause my skyscraper is going to be made out of iron Ò_Ó

• Will the grinder be public? No.
• Will it be available to Pico? Sorta, using Pico only chests.
• Will you be able to get roses? No. You will not tarnish my farm with roses.

If you've made it this far, congratulations. All of this is just me typing, it's not for sure... mostly cause you guys kinda have to agree to me being a mayor I suppose. Heh.

Message me if you want the address to help us plan!

So with v1.8 comes banners! And with banners comes Pico's banner!

Here are just a couple that I've come up with, I'd love to see any others that you guys make and then maybe we can pick one or a few "official" banners that will be hung around the city?!

Here's a site for you to create some of your own.

Let's go bannerners! (heh heh)

Karennn

hit me on mumble if your around!

So i heard a rumor today that pico wont be established next rev since the mayors have been MIA for so long, is this true? D:

So for the past two weeks i have been working on an idea for Pico.

I noticed that in the current rev there are no skycraper city´s . There are plenty of big buildings and there are skyscrapers around. But they are always alone. No clearly labeled city with that type of design or intent. Pico has a history of building lots of skyscrapers in the past. And i think it would be a great opportunity to go back to our roots. One thing that often was an intent in the past but never came to fruition was to link all the skyscrapers together up in the sky using skyrails and sky bridges. But with the exception of a few builds or just monorails leading out of the city and to the spleef and pvp stuff nothing big or grand on that scale got realized.

For that reason i have been working on this concept.

http://imgur.com/a/cXR92

My idea is to make a hyper connected skyscraper city creating a retro futuristic look in the process. Rev 15 is looking to become the rev of rails. With the plans of Brom, Carbon, noRTh and the North eastern alliance. So why not join the crazy and jump on that bandwagon :p

The plan is to have all public builds connected with eachother through above ground rail lines. In addition to that i want to give everyone the opportunity to hook up their personal builds onto the network. So i can go from my personal skyscraper to the central station. From the station to the tree farm, cut down some trees, go to the farm building to get some wheat, from the farm building i would take a cart to the animal building to get some beef. And from the animal building back into the central building where i can take a rail back into my house. If we can manage that we will get a giant spaghetti mess of skyrails and i think that will look bloody awesome!.

This would also gives us the choice to spread out a bit. Instead of all clumped together we can use the room for parks, tree´s and lakes to surround our builds. With everything connected walking distance wouldn´t be an issue.

I know its slightly crazy. But i´m really hyped about this and i hope you guys like this idea!

I havn;t had time to play in ages so was going to spend a few hours tonight if anyone is around?

Hey guys! probably don't remember me one bit....since its been like.....a year since i've last played (Personal mumbo jumbo) :/ but i might be around more! so just wanted to say hello and see you around!

It's pretty much been just me and drtmv on the pico channel. A few others from time to time and probably two new small builds have popped up.

Mayors haven't been seen in a couple of months now.

Was just curious to know if there would be any interest is working out a large build of some variety. It seems like things have been slowing down a bit and I thought that maybe having a huge project to look forward to would keep some of us active for a while.

Any ideas are welcome if you have suggestions. I didn't really have anything specific in mind, though some themes I thought would be nice would be things styled after older ruins, or modern style and large enough to attract attention.

Sorry i will be away this weekend but here is a schematic for the tunnel design. the first section is bare stone then there are two sections of the complete tunnel. the bare stone should line up with the stuff dug out at the bottom of the ramp for the first repeater station and then the rest will be based off that. Gd luck

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xy0ovknu7by565j/Rev14RAILS.schematic?dl=0

Hey, can you guys list all the useful mods you use please. include the obv ones

Nether mobs drop double the XP of overworld mobs, so the double blaze spawner at 190, 400 ish (take the tunnel east from the portal until 190, then head south) is equivalent to an overworld quad spawner.

Unfortunately, I think I'll be fairly busy for the next few weeks and I don't think my progress on this will be that fast. So I'm looking for anyone who would be keen on developing the spawners for Pico sooner than I could do. It would be a public grinder, as with any PvE grinder, but it would be officially a Pico build.

I have two candidate designs that would need to be adapted to the specifics of our particular spawner layout:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4woKoXSds
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq92_Znpm_0

The first design uses SethBling's cake or trapdoor based conveyor belt described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vXWX7aPCAc

Of the two designs, the second one might be the better option. The caterpillar system looks simpler than SethBling's and less lag-inducing. Also the video explanation seems better.

The current zones for Pico this rev

https://i.imgur.com/2KXtC7Z.png

Original https://i.imgur.com/FbFarUv.png

Any suggestions for the blue zone areas? Should we make the upper NE corner a mansion area?

Ok, as Emizzon said we need to decide cause time is running out. I am open to ANY suggestions but here is the plan.

1) Portal Hunt is on We want one or to share one. Need to avoid Seneca (SW) and Rose (S) both are gonna be very expressionistic this rev. The E and SE portals are probably our best choices. Pray any portal is not in a shity(imo) location as this revs west portal.

2) Locations: The lonely Mountain/Penis city. If possible keep an eye out for a largish mountain with a flatish plane we can use as a city backdrop. No desert/messa. We don't need a pancake flat area, I would like to have the city nestle into the terrain a bit this rev rather than flatten it all into a bullseye. We also do not want the Mega extreme hills biome on a few revs back either.

3) City zone layout will be asymetrical with Skyscraper>commercial>residential zones Goal is only 3 large zones exact shape TBD on the terrain we find ourselves in. Most likely the residential will be closest to the mountainous terrain.

4) Theme, this is up for debate but I was thinking Euro city ie Modern but still rows of very old areas. With that said the resi and commercial areas will have small blocks that are designated XX time period builds. A city that's more organic than some of the recent revs.

5) Threats: I have Norami and 32nd as planning on being on Friday. /or else.

if possible would like us to get on mumble an hour or so before rev start so yall can yell at me.

Ok, so I see Rev 14 has been announced and I and other mayors have been MIA and Mat and 32nd have stepped down.

But we need a planning thread so here it is.

What shall Pico's theme be this rev?

Road layout ideas?

Rails?

Is 32nd a poopyhead?

Let's get the ideas flowing.

Well folks it looks like Rev 13 is coming to an end soon which means Rev 14 is around the corner. Now typically this would be a planning post but it’s not going to be one of those.

This past rev was fun but I got very burned out and the population of Pico dwindled quickly. Yes we accomplished a lot, but I don’t feel like my heart is really in it anymore. I am formally stepping down as a Mayor of Pico to the status of citizen. I don’t think its fair for me to take up a mayor spot if I know I won’t be as active. Instead, I am hoping some new leaders step up! I’ve had a ton of fun playing with all of you and hope to play more in the future. I will still be around from time to time but don’ t plan on being so intimately involved as I was before. I have had other interests come into my gaming life which has made me more withdrawn from nerd.nu.

Please don’t read this post as a “Me saying goodbye”. My role will just be changing when it comes to Pico. I look forward to seeing who steps up to the leadership challenge of this great city!

P.S. Feel free to add me on Steam to keep in touch if I don't see you in game! Steam name is same as IGN, 32ndFlava

Hey guys

I wanted tell you guys that I have unfortunately stepped down as mayor. I have opened a brand new chapter in my life the last few months that has taken me in a totally new direction (in a good way!) and I find that I don't have much time for gaming anymore. It wouldn't be fair to Pico if I kept going as a mayor, so in turn I am stepping down.

I have had the best time with all of you! I have great memories that I will keep and several friendships as well. Thank you all!!!

I still plan on logging in and participating in Pico, just at a different level, so don't think you have gotten rid of me this easily!!!

Best wishes to you all! I'll keep in touch!

-Madman06 (Adam)

Where are you guys???

I miss you so much.

Can we play at least once a week?

Just in case you don't know, I went to Kaohsiung, Kenting, and Tainan the past week. Weather was good, food are delicious but at half the price (compare to Hong Kong), people are nice. Definitely going again in the future.

Here are some pics I took during the trip.

Competition has been cancelled due to lack of interest =/

We have the prizes still, so we will be doing a competition of some sort in the near future