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A slight clarification to the number of blocks that can be held.  There is no maximum number that can be held at one time.  Active players (digging or building, not afk or chatting) will receive 100 blocks per hour (tallied in increments of 5 minutes, so around 8.33 blocks ever 5 minutes of active play)

But at any time you can purchase additional blocks, Go nuts.

As TSWG stated, all this is subject to change as we move forward.

Frenchy said
Considering that we are losing the ability to res tp, would it be possible to have tp cooldown removed or lowered for donors who had access to res tp?

 We'll discuss that.  No promises.

Will it be possible to have the message from GriefPrevention (Where it spams you every time you aren't building in your zone) disabled for a specific individual?

We'll check on that.  It may not be disabled, but maybe limited.

Are the blocks paid for for GriefPrevention individual blocks, or does a "Block" counts as an entire Y column? (Ex: If you claim a block at X: 192 and Z: -32, will it protect from layer 1 to 255 for 1 shilling, or will you have to pay for each individual block?)

It will automatically Claim the entire column, but will only protect from 255 to like 60, I think.  As stated in the FAQs, as you dig or build downward, the protection will automatically extend with you.  This is to allow folks to still mine under player Claims.  But don't worry, they can't place a Claim under yours, and if you want to prevent mining, just dig down to bedrock when you make the claim.

On the Arda map, I haven't seen a Mesa biome. Will it be possible to create red sand with a custom formula, considering it is a very limited resource?

There is no Mesa biome, sorry.  With large biomes, even at 30k x 30k, it took a lot of seeds to find one that had the variety Arda does.  Red sand, like the new 1.8 stone types, will be generated in Resource Worlds (OR/SR).  We WILL have a new OR for 1.8, and it will be non-Amplified, so it is more likely to have a large-sized Mesa.

frelling will know more about custom formulas, I will let him speak on that part.

Also, will Tony be nerfed?

We have bound Tony in Nerf foam.  It's funny to see.  No promises on whether he'll get free, though. 

summertree said
Is it possible to make claims and subdivisions that are not rectangular?  (Example: a octagonal outline.)

Not at this time.  We're still restricted to cuboids.  Your alternative is to have multiple claims adjacent to each other, forming a rough non-cuboid shape.  There is no limit to the size or number of claims you can have (other than a MAX 10 million surface blocks), however they must be at least 10x10.

All items are subject to change at a moment's notice, and nothing that has been said should be considered by players as "binding," just "current."  Even the Rules of VeteranCraft are subject to change, and Staff can make a decision counter to the Rules when the situation calls for it.

I'm not sure if that's really a downside, as all you have to do is dig a hole down to bedrock.  A 1x1 shaft and the entire claim extends.  Even multiple claims would only take a few minutes to do.

Remember that the 10 million claim block limit is just surface area. X and Z.  Extended to sky and bedrock, that's 2.55 billion individual blocks. If we were still on Res, that would cost 255 million shillings to protect. I doubt any player will need more than that, ever.  And even if they do, we can always revisit the maximum, maybe.

A single 10 million block claim is about 3162 squared.  That's approximately 16 Vetran Peninsulas, or 28 Highmoor Regions, or 100 Capetown Peninsulas, or 12 Vetropolis Islands.  Point is, I don't believe the claim limit will ever really be an issue.

Frenchy said
Will it be possible to have the message from GriefPrevention (Where it spams you every time you aren't building in your zone) disabled for a specific individual?

To update:  The warning message is set for every 30 blocks placed outside a Claim.  The warning doesn't go off for "trash blocks," but what's on that list is still being considered.  It won't be removed completely, as we 1) prefer folks build inside claims, and 2) protect players who aren't paying attention.