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No, they're not. I'm currently the only person who has expressed any intent to build gyms for the server. Building anything of any scale REQUIRES creative mode so as to not take decades to build.

Exactly my point. You're under the delusion that it has to be one or the other; adventure map or survival. What I've been trying to tell you is that I've worked out a compromise. The survival players can still play survival, but the people who want to play Pokemon like Pokemon can go through the Pokemon League. Normally, the League would be build by the staff, but since they've expressed their inability to make builds on this scale within the time limit, I turned to the prospective Gym Leaders.
The survival world will still exist, and will still be the main focus of the server. However, the different towns will be built in creative and placed along a (frankly quite massive) road.

In all honesty, I am terrible at Pokemon strategy. I most likely won't be a gym leader. I am building these cities (there will be more) because I am BORED and no one else has stepped up to build for the League.

The fact is that gyms can't be built in survival. Well, they can, but it would take an exponentially longer amount of time, and that's not the point.
For all intents and purposes, the survival world and the League are separate. The League (in my opinion) should be a series of staff-protected areas that are built by the players and usable by the public. Gym Leaders would be appointed by the staff, and they would run either a gym that they built or an unoccupied gym.[DOUBLEPOST=1472680651][/DOUBLEPOST]Badge progression will be like in the games: you can get them in any order (it would be best to do them in order, as each gym has a max Pokemon level), but you need to have every badge to challenge the Elite Four.

 

Think of it this way: imagine that a group has decided to organize a sports division in a region that doesn't have one. They get a few teams to join, and then advertise it so that more teams will ask and be invited in turn, as asking every single individual city's team if they want to join would take too many resources away from actually creating the division.
Now, imagine that the division is all organized and everything is already set up and designed for maximum efficiency, and a team only then asks why they weren't invited, and demands to join, despite every position being filled and the schedule already being designed.
The reason the team didn't get to join is that they didn't express an intention to join the division whilst it was being designed, and as such they have little-to-no chance of getting in until the next rotation.
The same idea applies here.
A Pokemon League has a very limited number of slots - only eight - and unless prospective gym designers express an intention of creating a city to join the League, they won't get in.

Which is why I'm building this for/with SirStudMuffin (I just finished the outline of the city, and was about to ask him to give his opinion), as he had already expressed the intention to be the Water-Type Gym Leader and had given the basic idea of what he wanted his gym to be like.

Oh, I don't know, something like this:

Or this:
[The Biospheres album placeholder]

Oh my god what is with everyone thinking that the League is the whole server? Seriously, I've had to clarify this like 12 times.
The Pokemon League, as far as I know, should be a staff-organized player-run association of individual player-built cities and gyms SEPERATE from the survival portion of the game. It's still part of the world, but on a protected area of the map (most likely connected to spawn).

 

Not really. Having it as a separate world would create a severe disconnect and ruin the immersion. It would be possible, of course, but it would be a large devotion of resources that isn't necessary.

 

Well here's the fact: The towns are being built for the good of the server, not for the builder. Therefore, why is it logical to limit the builder in his resources.
A couple of weeks in survival would be okay if the builder was just building it because he wanted to, but to spend a month of his valuable time working on something that he himself is not going to use gives no incentive for him to build it. This is a voluntary action, after all.
It's like if a moderator was recruited and given the task to uphold the rules of the server, but in order to kick someone for rule-breaking they had to fill out ten forms and wait twelve-to-fourteen business days for a reply. And this for EVERY. SINGLE. KICK. At some point, would the moderator not just quit?
You are asking for unnecessary tedium to be applied to a voluntary task that has little benefit to the worker.[DOUBLEPOST=1472726476,1472725757][/DOUBLEPOST]

What were you expecting, a city of grand scale that took months to build in creative?
Too large of a city, and it feels dry and lifeless. Too small, and it's stifling. The city I built is, in my opinion, just right. It gives off a theme and a sense of population and life, without being too distracting from the main point. You can't build a city that's just a gym, but making a city where the gym is just a footnote isn't good either.
It's a simple town, but it serves its purpose.
I'm currently working on a water town with the same idea. It's a series of connected glass biospheres with a modified ocean monument as the gym.

 

You guys keep missing the point. I'm not saying you can't build it in survival mode, I'm saying that you shouldn't be FORCED to. You shouldn't be FORCED to spend weeks painstakingly gathering resources to build something for the server's good, not for his own.
It's like if an architect was hired to build a skyscraper, but the costs had to come out of his own pocket. How is that logical?
Did you even read my last post?[DOUBLEPOST=1472776542][/DOUBLEPOST]And what you conveniently forgot to remember was that Ben85 was able to use advanced building guides to build and a draconic staff of power to gather resources, things that we don't have in Pixelmon. The most we have is an Efficiency V pick with Haste II.
Oh yeah, and he also had CREATIVE FLIGHT.[DOUBLEPOST=1472776693][/DOUBLEPOST]@LucidTheStick What's your opinion on all of this?