[ALT] Poll #2 - Should Ian's House Come With Us?

[Darkest]

A trivial matter, if it is too trivial, then please say so that I can delete this thread.

Should Ian's House be ISOTed with all of us? We might not even stay at that location, but it's up to you. It could provide some of us a temporary shelter or a storage place to leave any miscellaneous items as we go on an exodus to find the perfect area to create the Main Colony. When we are done, we'll go back and retrieve the items. Or we could create two colonies.

Really, it's just something fun, and adds more interesting ideas to throw into the roleplay, later.

Oh, Ian, could you give us a short description of your house?

BTW, this poll will end in 3 days, but the votes will be counted in 24 hours from now, so vote quickly.

[Dave Howery]

I say no... makes it too easy. Along with whatever the ASBs give him on his list, he could buy all kinds of things and pack his house full of stuff.... have we decided if Ian is going along on this wondrous adventure, or do his awesome powers overmatch even the dreaded ASBs? :)

[Ward]

I say no... makes it too easy. Along with whatever the ASBs give him on his list, he could buy all kinds of things and pack his house full of stuff.... have we decided if Ian is going along on this wondrous adventure, or do his awesome powers overmatch even the dreaded ASBs? :)


No he finds out he is going when he wakes up in the morning and heads out to work.

[Darkest]

Ian? It should be his choice, I think. If we include Ian, and he doesn't want to play regularily, then we have a major character who doesn't do anything.

So I say, if he wants to be active in this shared world project with the rest of us, let him. If he doesn't, he shouldn't come at all, (sorry Ian!)

[Norbert]

Actually, if his house were to come, it would have certain advantages for everyone. For instance, if someone were injured. it would be a more suitable place for treatment than a roughhewn cabin. As to packing it full of stuff? No Way!

[Dave Howery]

As to packing it full of stuff? No Way!
why not? I would...

[Ian the Admin]

Um, I don't have time to play. I am heavily engrossed in setting up a new server for the board.

As for my "house", I live in the Bay Area. Houses run 500,000 dollars and up. I live in an apartment (in a building with 8 apartments).

[Darkest]

Well I guess that idea is screwed.

Or maybe not...

An apartment building would be a PERFECT place for temporary storage, medical area, fortification, resting area, and general start-up place.

Does anyone want to continue with this idea and bring Ian's apartment complex with us? Should I start a new poll?

[Psychomeltdown]

Leave it. Ian's house/apartment does not come with us. It' s just a building, and we'll be leaving it behind anyway. Where we're settling is miles away from Ian's place.

[Darkest]

It might be useful for storage for things that we don't need immediately and can come back for. It's not like we are going to carry EVERYTHING we brought with us miles away. It won't be possible. We have ISOTed our maximum weight limits, and we can't hike through wilderness with all of it.

Ian's apartment can be used to leave items that we don't immediately need and can come back for once the first colony is under way. It could also be used for temporary shelter until we get things sorted out (which might take a day or two). It can also be raided for all the things inside (a lot of useful stuff in an apartment complex that we can take with us. Later, we could probably rip out pipes and electrical equipment and take things such as blankets, clothes, and matresses as well.

[Darkest]

The votes have been tallied!

Ian's house comes along with his entire property (driveway, backyard, ect.) - 11 votes - 47.83%

Ian's house is ISOTed, but only the building itself. No driveway, backyard, fences, or shed. - 1 - 4.35%

Not at all (no house). - 11 - 47.83%

Note: We recently learned that Ian's house is actually an apartment complex.

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So, once again, we come to a stalemate... this one being much more even than the last.

I suggest we go with option 2 - The apartment complex is ISOTed, but nothing else. Why? Because this is at least some sort of compromise. Also, 12 people voted for a building of some kind, with 11 not at all.

Unless a better idea is suggested, I say we take the apartment complex, but only the building itself. Jolo wanted to use it as a trading outpost and a storage place. We can take the piping out later if we need them. It can give us at least a little bit of metal, and of course mattresses, a little bit more food, clothes, and glass. We can leave all the heavy equipment that we don't need immediately here while we go on our exodus to the proposed First Colony, and then come back when we aren't under such a crunch.

Cool?

[jolo]

Really cool. It should be easy to turn the complex into a nearly invincible fortress - at least for Amerindians of that time.

I suppose the original inhabitants are not coming, except Ian?

My plans of creating a fish farm and hydroelectric plant would probably have to wait.

Could be interesting to see if Ian stays or helps founding a new city. His server problems should be solved then... I'd consider the complete complex Ians property, and he'll decide which parts to give to the community, and under which conditions.

It'll probably be pretty full of goods, until you guys come and get them. More than 1000 people should easily fill it.

Once the goods are gone, this could be the usage:

There are 8 apartements - I suppose 2 on each level. One could be used as a clinic, one as a laboratory, one for me and my gf, one for Ian and family (if he stays), one as a restaurant, one as a store, one as a shelter, the remaining 2 (or 3) for 2 or more families. If the apartments are big, more people should fit in.

The cellar might be useful for storage, for a work shop, and for some equipment to run the house.

The roof will be used as a watch tower, for solar cells, solar collectors, antennas, my telescopes, and so on.

The revenue from the house (and inventory) should go to Ian, as he doesn't have any survival equipment, food, or the likes.

To make the one apartement a permanent settlement for me, I'd have to be able to make it my property.

The estate around the house and the things I build up with others I'd consider the property of the people who stay here.

I'd try to make some things work - water, electricity, some communications with the rest of you. I will have to adapt my list of equipment to bring along - a welder would help cut unnecessary parts and close the remains, a solar collector and a large water tank would help get water up, and so on.

[Darkest]

It does not look like Ian is going to come. He doesn't want to play, and I don't want him just to be an NPC, so the ASBs never picked him up for the ride. :(

... Also, a restaurant?! Dude, we have way more serious matters at hand. Tons of people will be vying for the apartments, and I expect way more than one person to take one apartment. Most of the walls will be cleared to make larger rooms, which is much more efficient. Storage areas, resting areas for the weak, residential areas for a few keepers, armories for weapons in case of attack...

Maybe after the colony is up and the farms are running, you can come back and turn the complex into your fortress/trade post. Until then, we can't afford such frivolous behavior.

And don't use the bathrooms, they won't work.

[Psychomeltdown]

Uh..according to the votes, it says that NOT AT ALL has won...

[Darkest]

However, I tallied the votes within twenty minutes of 24 hours of posting the poll. I left the poll up just to see what people might have voted later. But, the votes are in, you can't go back. People might have registered a new user to use their vote, just to have their way. Can't have that.

The count stands and is done.

[Glen]

Hey, we need NPCs! Ian, just let us say that you came, but maybe you're just keeping a low profile, working your farm or something...

[Matt]

However, I tallied the votes within twenty minutes of 24 hours of posting the poll. I left the poll up just to see what people might have voted later. But, the votes are in, you can't go back. People might have registered a new user to use their vote, just to have their way. Can't have that.

The count stands and is done.


load it up with ammo and production facilities!!!

:P

jk I could do it either way.

[Darkest]

Should we take a vote to see if Ian is coming as an NPC?

[Matt]

Well he is an active member. We may pretend he's a god right now, but the reality of the situation well make us much more... um sane if it were. In this case Ian would be a person like anyone of us.

[Grimm Reaper]

Well, Ian resolved that before I could note the inherent cruelty in stealing all of his AH membership AND grabbing his house.

Said cruelty being fine arguments for doing so.:p

[jolo]

Well, Ian resolved that before I could note the inherent cruelty in stealing all of his AH membership AND grabbing his house.

Said cruelty being fine arguments for doing so.:p

Who knows whether only the celebrity wifes got cloned... :)

[Ward]

Who knows whether only the celebrity wifes got cloned... :)
Or any woman you want if you are male.
if you are a woman any man you want .

[Grimm Reaper]

Darkest90, you forget the real and serious possibility that Ian is one of the ASBs sending us back in time. He got bored with the website and decided to go for some serious fun.

After all, given all these rumors of his god-like abilities and his strange lack of concern for losing all of his members...

[Flocculencio]

Or any woman you want if you are male.
if you are a woman any man you want .

Yeah...I'd discourage celeb wives actually. A lot of those women are really skinny. Not good when they'll be giving birth to children outside a modern hospital. The girl I'm bringing along has wide, childbearing hips :D

[schrammy]

Yeah...I'd discourage celeb wives actually. A lot of those women are really skinny. Not good when they'll be giving birth to children outside a modern hospital. The girl I'm bringing along has wide, childbearing hips :D

point taken but i doudt you have ever seen the girl or should i rather say whale that lives next door to me, i am not sure if i realy would want to make children with that no matter how horny i am :eek:

[Straha]

Yeah...I'd discourage celeb wives actually. A lot of those women are really skinny. Not good when they'll be giving birth to children outside a modern hospital. The girl I'm bringing along has wide, childbearing hips :D
That IS something to consider. That's why instead of picking a celeb I brought along one of my friends who is hot but not an anorexic celeb.

[sbegin]

Ian? It should be his choice, I think. If we include Ian, and he doesn't want to play regularily, then we have a major character who doesn't do anything.

So I say, if he wants to be active in this shared world project with the rest of us, let him. If he doesn't, he shouldn't come at all, (sorry Ian!)
Well, we're bringing an aweful lot of people who don't know anything about it:D I haven't told any of my family yet that there world will be turning upside down soon!:p