My suggestion would be an adapted version of option 3A. Personally I don't think starting over would be the best, but as most seems to want so I would want to suggest a alternative nearly identical to 3A. I suggest that people will be able to get ONE double chest for things to be brought over to the new map. Themezones if the themeleader wants it, will get copied over(Not sure about zone 16, as it seems barely started on). Not sure what to do with other builds as frankly there is a ton of them and copying too many builds is not a task I would be up to do.
Keep in mind that the things that this would entail is things that would be time-consuming and will certainly delay any kind of new map opening up for the public.
Choice 3C:
Same as option 3A. But with ONE large chest of stuff to be brought over. And copying of themezones over to the new map. But these things will increase the time it takes until the new map would open up to the public.
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Permissions will probably have to be discussed once the decision has been made about the map.
Apparently can't change my vote(?).
I like this idea the most. But, I have a few ideas for the spawn to be redone. The current spawn is, fucking amazing, but it has minor flaws that makes it horrible. Comparing Iron City and the current spawn, what's different other then Iron City being almost shit? Symmetry. The current spawn is a symmetrical circle with all parts exactly the same. That was extremely confusing for guests, admins and myself. If I didn't have flying capabilities to fly to the other side because I went the wrong way, I would of disliked it even more.
The new spawn should be nicely build, not just Iron and Diamond blocks thrown together. But, we should also try to keep sections of spawn not exactly the same on each side. Iron City was easy to distinguish; In the front there was the portal room to Babel, behind was the market, to the left was public furnaces and rooms, right was that maze thingy. We can take these same concepts into our new spawn while having an amazing build, except maybe the maze
. The buildings should be the same theme, but in different shapes and designs. Take Islerlohn and Leo's city(The central parts of both); Each building was it's individual structure and allowed every building to be easily distinguishable.
That's about all I can think of now.
Please add to this.