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Re: Formally Announcing: The Medieval Marketplace, A Common Castle Builders Project
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Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:09:45 GMT
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Just to further comment (while still agreeing with Josh)...
The other reason we did choose green as the standard, was because we knew
green is the color most commonly found on a baseplate. While our motives
were quite the opposite of pleasing just ourselves, for many of us, our
personal collections persauded different decisions. Therefore, since the
green was more common in many of our collections, we saw it fit to use the
more common color so that we could ensure that we did not make it difficult
for people with small collections to participate.
Also, though this fact had little to do with our desicion making, the real
temporary type marketplaces which we based our plans on were set up on a
field and lasted for only a few days. Though there may be a noticable path
left when the market is torn down, it would not be as noticable as a well
worn road and should still be very greenish.
I hope that Josh and my comments make sense. The standard is only to ensure
that the shops are compatable. If you wish to show a worn area we welcome
you to because it shows the unique building style of each builder, and we
want that. The standard is flexable. :)
Jeremy
In lugnet.castle, Josh Wedin writes:
> Hi Chris,
>
> The standard is currently green; however we wanted it to be as flexible as
> possible. I am sure that it would be okay to use a tan plate if you
> "greened" up the edges where it would meet the other shops. The main idea
> is getting together with other people and having shops that "fit" together.
> We thought about making the paths brown or tan but decided to go with green
> because it makes it easily for the most people to be able to build according
> to the standard. Anyway, that was our thoughts.
>
> Josh
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> > Now, most of the time un-paved roads are worn areas (IRL and in 99% of the
> > Lego villages I've seen). So I think it only makes sense to make tan the
> > standard, with the option of adding the green on to landscape. This will
> > further enhance the worn in, rutted look of the road. Green would be more
> > for courtyard and outskirt areas.
> >
> > Of course, just my opinion. Plus, in my case, tan baseplates of the 16x
> > persuasion are more abundant in my collection.
> >
> > Even if the standard is strictly kept green, it should be ok for me to use a
> > tan baseplate and "green up" the edges, yes?
> > (for example, look at the meshing of green and tan, particularly in front of
> > the small house beside the church, in this folder):
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13151
> >
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