User blog comment:Faeyrin/The Importance of Communication/@comment-4547854-20131230023212

I've only semi-skimmed most of this and I think I'm pretty sure what you're saying is make a land-claims page.

See, there was once upon a time where W42 had land claims. It was pretty corrupt at first, however after a few owners managed to keep it pure and did a good job. It did an excellent job at organizing who had what and what clans were around, etc etc. Role-plays were a little easier to find and finding out who had what was quite simple.

However, there was a massive backlash to this. Many people, and I'll even take the blame here too, went and roflgrabbed a lot of unclaimed lands and it caused much OOC war. I think there's been more OOC conflict in W42 when land claims was around then ever before. People liked to have a long list of lands under their clan names(trust me, it was a nice feeling) and thus went to roflclaim things. It also put restrictions on what could be "claimed," which was deemed extremely restrictive and soon a lot of "unclaimable" lands was claimable, however some areas like the Dominion Tower remained on that list due to the nigh-impossibility of there being a role-play there. Along with all the OOC hatred spread around due to this, even two Land Claims Admins stepped down from their positions because of the struggles and especially the massive harrassment of one said group I won't mention.

Putting this all together, W42 is better off without this list. Sure, we have the History Of pages to document who owns what as well, but those become a little outdated and there aren't pages for quite a few lands either. But as soon as you make an overall list of what is owned or even draw borders on a map, you're right back to land-claims. This is why we have a friends list, this wiki and other various means of communication to figure out what is what, as well as a forum on the RS website for roleplays to do this.

W42 doesn't need this, so don't try to bring it back. We'll just go back to our old, barbaric ways.