Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26553378-20170209231114

Intro
Hi, over the past year or so I have had some ideas about banners, and although I have shared most I have never really made my own suggestion.

Banner Sizes
In the banner GUI I propose a new secondary GUI, "Size manipulation". This secondary GUI would include a slider for the X, Y, and Z axis, and would max out at the banners current claim distance, and have the minimum limit at 0 (only claiming on the level of the metal block.) these sliders would be used to shrink the range of a banner along a certain axis so that you aren't stuck with taking more space then you need and wasting space in a city.

Increasing size
In the size modification GUI there would be 3 new slots, one for bronze blocks, one for silver blocks, and one for gold blocks, each added block would increase the available range by half the regular amount for that block allowing for the claiming of cities with a single banner.

Creative claim block
A block that acts like a banner except for a few things, it would have number entries in the size fields with no max and a 0 min, as well as an alignment number field, and faction dropdown, similar to the torn banners I will reintroduce later this would be able to accept negative numbers. The block would display as a rainbow banner engraved onto a mithril block until a faction is selected at which point it will change to the banner color with its symbol, if the align rec is negative it will have a black "tear" through the block.

Torn Banners
Created by breaking a banner you have - with using a weapon, or as a drop from banner bearers, these banners would be the reverse of a current align banner requiring a - amount of align for the faction instead of positive, and would display as a banner of that faction with a tear of empty pixels from the bottom to just above the highest banner emblem.

Blacklists
Blacklists are the one thing on here that I think I have suggested before, but I'm putting them on anyway (sorry if I have suggested before.) Blacklists would also be a secondary GUI, it would include a button at the top for "blacklist only", meaning that the banner will do nothing except enforce the blacklist, as well as the typical whitelist style list. The difference is that players on the list are not allowed to interact with the stuff there. This would be extremely helpful in cases such as inns or taverns where you want to ban someone from it from doing something idiotic such as killing you or griefing the tavern, and don't feel like trying to whitelist every other person on the server.

Banner Overlapping
On an ending note in this suggestion I would like to point out some parts of the banner overlapping thing that could be improved. First is if I make a city my citizens would need to ask me to add banners for every single house or part of house they own if I put align banners over the whole city (or as suggested earlier increased a banners range to the whole city.) So I propose a GUI inside the banner including those allowed to place banners within that banners range. (Once again bouncing off of this thread as I did in the Poll section)

Poll & Conclusion
What parts do you like? (only vote if you gave kudos) Modifying Banner Range Torn Banners Blacklists Banner Overlap Perms Modifying Range & Torn Banners & Banner Overlap Perms Modifying Range & Blacklists & Banner Overlap Perms Torn Banners & Blacklists & Banner Overlap Perms Modifying Range & Torn Banners Modifying Range & Blacklists Torn Banners & Blacklists Torn Banners & Banner Overlap Perms Modifying Range & Banner Overlap Perms Blacklists & Banner Overlap Perms Everything Please note that this is for reference of the mod team if any of this is indeed implemented so that they can see what parts the community most likes, also please check out this thread about banner accessability, and I will put in a plug here that there should be player-specific options as well as align options.

Credit my brother dire for the help with the idea of torn banners (can't remember who actually came up with it, it was a while ago) 