Breezeway Ban Act

I. The people of Egypt, by majority vote, declare that the Breezeway compounds are outlawed.

II. No more new Breezeway compounds shall be built starting the moment this law takes effect.

III. All current built Breezeway compounds shall be outlawed after 60 days, starting on the date this law takes effect. During this period, they (and every build in it) shall be salvageable by the owner like other builds. If a Breezeway compound is owned by a Guild, only Elders of that guild can tear down the compounds. [also see note 2 at the bottom for alternative ruling idea]

IV. After the period of 60 days as mentioned in article III, any paid citizen of Egypt will be able to tear down any Breezeway compound. The compound itself will not give any salvaged materials from this moment on. The builds inside will, as normal, according to their Salvage skill.

V. Anyone who owns a Breezeway blueprint can trade this in for a Portable Cornerstone at any University of Architecture. [or other compensation, up to Developers]

Notes:

1. The reasons for this law is that they are generally found ugly, lag causing and crash causing. Most of them are not even built above the size of default cp's.

2. As an alternative to tearing down existing Breezeways, they can be changed over into Townhouse cp's with no loss of materials. This is up to the developers.

Current Status

Current Status: petition, gathering signatures, handing out copies

Comments

• III and alternative (2) looks like a PhysicsVeto to me, how do you magically recover materials or convert between compounds types?
• You could address two out of three of the stated reasons for this law by a feature request / bug report to the developers ("make breezeways faster, and fix the crash case please"). They're not law fodder.
• The rest of it then boils down to "I want to tear down other peoples compounds because I think they are ugly", which is not something I'd personally vote for.

--Inkoaten 00:53, 26 March 2009 (EST)