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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 3267437" data-attributes="member: 3087">I geek out on this kind of stuff.Sorry if there's lots of irritating questions about it.When I hear housing development I keep thinking “housing project”.I assume we’re talking about suburban sprawl…. i.e. lots of different similar looking houses with slightly different themes. Some (most?) of the houses have fences but the developments themselves don’t. Am I on target?50 sqm means that we’re talking about 7.07 sq miles on a side, right?So the furthest point from point to point (i.e. diagonally) would be 10 miles or so?(Obviously not exact, just wanted to get a feel for it).Cool. This has lots of potential.Cool. Very bad for the pack, but cool.Innnnteresting.In terms of wealth level are we talking American Beauty or higher up the scale, like the richer side of Desperate Housewives? (i.e. to people cut their own lawns or have someone do it for them?)Are the stores spread through out the area or clustered somewhere?Random spirit suggestion (not sure where this came from):The True Slam Kings were a bunch of passionate street dancers; tolerated by the police for their as straight edged antics were generally confined to the park and isolated side streets (and reportedly because one of the members was related to a police officer).Over their four years at Jefferson the tight knit group’s focus gave birth to a spirit; it appears in the form of an urban outfit with no wearer and backed up with a half formed floating boom box (the actual composition of which changes over time; though it is always marked somewhere prominent with the TSK tag). Unfortunately, from the spirit’s standpoint, most of the TSK’s graduated last year and the group broke up.Now starving of essence it’s desperate to find a new source of nourishment. It’s been hungrily eyeing the cheerleading around Jefferson, but it fears the aggressive and pugilistic Juggernaut. I’m going to stop asking about the ban.I think people are right and we need to move on. Obviously if Toki is satisfied with the severity I should be too.So the following should therefore be considered a tangent[sblock]Something I realized that I was interested in:I guess I was writing from the stand point of having a ban be significant in story terms. Something that is minor once every couple of weeks doesn’t seem like it would come up very much at all (however see below). Given that we have months of downtime I guess I expect it will just be handwaved. Or if we try to make it significant then the way internet games work (i.e. usually it will take someone, sometimes me, more than 24 hours to respond the game grinds to a halt).So something that we do every day that acts as a backdrop, or something that is semi-frequent but a big deal, seems like it would be better suited to the game.And now for a technical discussion:I just don’t agree with your assessment about ban severity.Example: I work out 30 minutes most days. It requires a bit of dedication but doesn’t affect my life much at all. I can do it at home, I can go to the pool, I can do it when traveling, I can do it before I go to sleep. Really, it has no impact on my life or limits my options.The observant Muslims that I know who pray five times a day are in a very different position.The country I’m in does a good job of putting prayer rooms and so forth in convenient locations, and is committed to making it easy for people to be observant, but it’s still a major commitment.I mean… to a certain degree… they have to constantly be paying attention to what time it is, how long it is to their next prayer time, where they’re going to pray etc.It affects when they can schedule meetings, the sorts of activities they can participate in, and every other aspect of their lives.So, sure, 30 minutes a day is more “time” (i.e. 20 minutes more than 5 2 minute breaks) but for sheer “life disruptiveness” the 5 times a day is a much bigger hassle.Bigger hassle = more severe ban(IMHO natch)Not that constantly building bonfires in the suburbs without a license doesn’t have the potential to cause problems… <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Actually now that I think about it there are all sorts of terrible things that could come out of this…[/sblock]</blockquote>

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