Like I said, I am not a builder for towns and cities, or even castles and fortresses in the wilds. Your way is easier to administer.
My concern is the original world becomes a ghetto for new players where all the veteran players move to the whitelisted world. If there is no compelling reason to return to the main world, then the server will not gain veteran players because new players do not have the patience to wait for access to the 'good' world. Even staff would tend to play on the whitelisted world.
A possible way around this is if the whitelisted world has worldguard settings such that new players can join and build on a town plot but cannot break blocks anywhere else on the world. This can be done by town owners setting up p-stones to allow new players to build within the p-stone influence. But veteran players can build anywhere on the whitelisted world subject to server rules.
I would also argue that mob caps be very low (like 5 per chunk) to force XP farms and breeding to be done on the main "commercial" world. Otherwise, like I said veteran players have no need to go back to the main world.
The nice thing about a new separate whitelisted world, is that FrostVincent can set different world rules.
One rule might be to force players to cluster their builds into claimed areas. This might be as simple as convention: build a high tower centered in a chunk to claim so many chunks out in a square. Or it could be buying a "mega"-p-stone that claims the land around it -- nice because for more land, you buy more stones. Easier to admin because builds in unclaimed lands can be rolled back (or torn down for reuse) and you can't expand without buying and claiming the land. And if the "mega"-p-stones can only be rented by the month, inactive players need a big bank balance to keep their builds protected
-- oh, economic stimulus .
Another rule would allow builds by inactive players to be rolled back or torn down for reuse after a reasonable time, say 6 months.
We could have HOA type rules for the ugly build haters to stop my ugly builds, lol. But seriously, with the main world and resource world, there is no need for strip mining and big ugly farms on the whitelisted world -- you could still hide this activity underground in areas that you have claimed.
My concern is the original world becomes a ghetto for new players where all the veteran players move to the whitelisted world. If there is no compelling reason to return to the main world, then the server will not gain veteran players because new players do not have the patience to wait for access to the 'good' world. Even staff would tend to play on the whitelisted world.
A possible way around this is if the whitelisted world has worldguard settings such that new players can join and build on a town plot but cannot break blocks anywhere else on the world. This can be done by town owners setting up p-stones to allow new players to build within the p-stone influence. But veteran players can build anywhere on the whitelisted world subject to server rules.
I would also argue that mob caps be very low (like 5 per chunk) to force XP farms and breeding to be done on the main "commercial" world. Otherwise, like I said veteran players have no need to go back to the main world.
The nice thing about a new separate whitelisted world, is that FrostVincent can set different world rules.
One rule might be to force players to cluster their builds into claimed areas. This might be as simple as convention: build a high tower centered in a chunk to claim so many chunks out in a square. Or it could be buying a "mega"-p-stone that claims the land around it -- nice because for more land, you buy more stones. Easier to admin because builds in unclaimed lands can be rolled back (or torn down for reuse) and you can't expand without buying and claiming the land. And if the "mega"-p-stones can only be rented by the month, inactive players need a big bank balance to keep their builds protected
-- oh, economic stimulus .Another rule would allow builds by inactive players to be rolled back or torn down for reuse after a reasonable time, say 6 months.
We could have HOA type rules for the ugly build haters to stop my ugly builds, lol. But seriously, with the main world and resource world, there is no need for strip mining and big ugly farms on the whitelisted world -- you could still hide this activity underground in areas that you have claimed.
/Rowebot