04-05-2016, 05:25 PM
It seems to be a misconception that the town portals are for the convenience of the people living in the towns, when the goal is to create an easy way for new people to get to a location where they can build. People who have settled down in a town can set a home there for their convenience, therefore giving everyone a town portal is unnecessary.
If everyone had a town portal it would be very hard for new people to navigate the sea of portals. The 4 we have now is a good number because they all fit in one row, and if we added more it would get overwhelming to see several rows of portals.
They are somewhat of a more organized alternative to the /wild command that other servers have. More similar to the "New" warps in MW. The portals allow new players to get into an area where they should be guaranteed to find a unoccupied spot to build and they'll get to meet some of the people that live nearby.
If everyone had a town portal it would be very hard for new people to navigate the sea of portals. The 4 we have now is a good number because they all fit in one row, and if we added more it would get overwhelming to see several rows of portals.
They are somewhat of a more organized alternative to the /wild command that other servers have. More similar to the "New" warps in MW. The portals allow new players to get into an area where they should be guaranteed to find a unoccupied spot to build and they'll get to meet some of the people that live nearby.