Hello everybody,
I'm thinking of changing rules a bit. Nothing too significant, mostly updating them to the way we've already being playing.
So, removing some stuff from current rules 4 and 5:
- No blocking,
no rating pushing, town growing only in claimed town. Blocking is serious crime.Rating pushing is the same as self competition. You can grow other town limitedly,always leave enough space for others and roadshaveto be used by vehicles! No land reserving,no unused roads,no station spread abusing.You can reserve maximally 14 tiles for future stations. If you use more, or use land buy for blocking, you can get yourselves into trouble! Using non adjacent stations is allowed but they must not be chained!
And joining them together into a new one:
- No blocking, no sabotaging, no unused property. Intentional sabotaging is a serious crime, you can get banned in no time for it. Just having some infrastructure that isn't used by your vehicles is acceptable, but take care not to block anyone with it (especially in cities), always leave enough space for others.
Reasoning:
- Rules 1 and 2 already forbid self-competition, no need to repeat it.
- Everyone is growing cities like crazy, that rule is not being enforced already.
- Same goes for unused roads. I did add a note about unused property though.
- Forbidding station chaining doesn't seem to be necessary, as it doesn't give any benefits and it's hard to distinguish it from what we already do sometimes.
- Land reserving is limited by server and all harm you can do with it qualifies as blocking, no need to state it by itself.
Some known things are left uncovered. I think it's ok to leave them out of short version of rules and cover in full one which we have on wiki (ok, that page really calls for update, but we'll get there eventually).
- Crashing vehicles. Intentional goes as sabotaging, but unintentional show be specified. Also I feel like intentionaly crashing own vehicles should be foridden for some reason (ofc short runways are exception).
- There should be smth else, I forgot ^^.
Anyway, what do you think of it? Any opinions and mb better wording suggestions are appreciated.