This is the big-chongus-project I’ve started with Host several months ago, and on which I’m working every so often, usually during the week-end on my streams.
This tower features crafting stations, a bank, a gleam exhibit, and above what’s currently built, I will make a complex set of hanging gardens leading all the way up to sky-limit.
But so far, I just call it “The Tower”, or “@HOST’s Tower”.
Kinda think there are cooler names to find.
So here are a few options, and do feel free to suggest your own ideas, in case you got something awesome that out-classes all other options.
Waist of plots is funny but that is what popped in my mind.
The Beacon
Or The Raxxian Beacon
My mind took me right away to Minecraft.
The beam of light when you turn on the beacon in MC (sorry for the reference but thats the best way to describe what my mind sees).
Not saying at all to add that (waist of plots ) But my mind just imagined the light beam on top of the building.
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Second line should end with a dot behind funny.
And that is what popped in my mind was “the beacon”.
Just to clarify that part .
There are some pretty nice ideas there, so I might very well do another thread with a Second Bracket poll in a day or two to solidify the best options and adding the suggested one.
Raxxian Reach sounds pretty good.
Isn’t Sisyphus the guy who’s damned to roll a giant stone up a flight of stairs, only to have it roll down below, leaving him to roll it back up again? Like he’s the embodiment of a futile action leading nowhere?
At first, I was like “How does the tower make him think of Sisyphus? ” but then I went "is it because this tower is fated to disappear once the servers are shut down by Square Enix?
Uh, reminds me of how Creativerse also has placeable objects called Beacons, but used ONLY to send a beam of light in a direction which makes them work as a sort of lighthouse. Also very useful as construction tools when you rotate them 90° to see where two lines cross, to plan things ahead.
Anyway, yeah “The Beacon” is a pretty nice idea too!
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And the tower is barely at what? 140-ish blocks altitude? And so far, it’s fairly well closed-off inside, not like you’re balancing on suspended beams… YET.
There’s about a hundred more blocks to go, and I’m planing to have the hanging gardens more destructured and opened! Imagine what it’ll be when we’re all the way up!
To give you an idea, some of my inspirations would be the garden-zones of Prince of Persia Warrior Within and The Two Thrones (you know, back when Ubisoft used to make solid offline solo-game without DLCs or in-game stores and ‘time-savers’) and Sonic Generations’ Sky Sanctuary levels (both the modern style and the Classic 2D-scroller style). The music of that level hypes me up to build like nothing else can.
Though the original idea for the tower was to do something inspired by David Xanatos’ skyscrapper from Gargoyles, with a big garden at the top, as if it had been scooped up and placed on top of the structure. Then, I thought I would be 1 or 2 floors away from sky-limit after the crafting/bank floors and that I’d have just enough space for an apartment floor and the garden on top… but I’ve barely passed the midway point.
Is that what Sisyphus was supposed to represent? Uh. Thought he was an allegory for doing something pointless (because the boulder always comes back down).
Perfectionism is a better way to look at it, I suppose, and without sounding too full of myself, I do have that, because I’m always editing stuff, never happy with what I do.
Looking at the box-like shape of the tower, I’ve been thinking for several weeks about asking @HOST to plot a little here and there on the sides of the tower so I could make trees grow out of the structure to break the shape and make the whole thing look 128% better.
Host warned me to be careful while building because I’d reach the mesh limit fast, and I didn’t worry about it enough. Because of that, there is a few specific chunks where I’m at mesh-limit, so I couldn’t fit all the machines I wanted. The whole thing with power-coils, I mean 28 meshes for 1 fully powered machine, that’s kinda nuts. I wish there was something like a “cutting-edge power coil” that generates twice as much power, so that they’d take half the space (and mesh-count).
I even considered asking Host to reclaim the tower so I could make it with a wider base to fit crafting stations differently, more horizontally, and to have most of the height of the build be decorative. But I know he wouldn’t let me press the big red button.
Well, actually yeah, the tower bank is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too small to fit all the stuff taking dust in Host’s reclaim boxes.
But under the Portal Hub, there is a biiiiiiiiig room with lots of pillars and wooden beams that was supposed to be storage space for people who would’ve come build on what was once my attempt at a Mall. That space was like an open-wound for me, anothe reminder of an attempt at something cool that fell flat.
So I’m taking that space an making a storehouse for Host with more than 800 stone cabinets!
Might be the best description of what the tower currently is, yeah.
I think Sisyphus represents an endless task, but for him it was a mundane punishment, but I think it is similar to a creative perfectionist. Ordinary folk look at a marvelous build and are amazed, but the creator is still thinking of where it can be improved thus a sense of his task being endless.
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” but then I went "is it because this tower is fated to disappear once the servers are shut down by Square Enix? 
