Idea for towns...

What about adding a currency for each town?

The mayor is given an unlimited supply of leaves that is kept in a bank, for example, something that cannot be obtained through normal Minecraft playing. Then the people of that town use the leaves to purchase plots of land, resources, etc. and to prevent the land being griefed or used without paying, just have it so the mayor of the town needs to give that certain player a right to build on that plot, and nowhere else. To gain currency you do little jobs, e.g. collecting flowers - 10 flowers = 10 leaves. Then bring them to the bank in exchange for leaves. You could also have people working in the bank for something like 20 leaves a day.

Just an idea I had, thought it would add a little originality to the server, and fun. Lets face it, building stuff is the obvious reason people purchase Minecraft, so it gets rather boring after time being able to build everywhere, and expanding your house with no problems, well that's my opinion anyway. Introducing a currency system of some sort would keep that spark there, it would make you work for your house, and you would feel a much larger sense of pride in your house.

EDIT: I just thought that limiting the spots that people can build would sort of slow down the development of a town, for example Mjolnir seems to have all their towns folk help build it. In that case you could introduce a "comitee", where the mayor grants certain people of that town permission to build anywhere.

We already have plans to Implement a Currency :)

Although the idea is nice it is hard to give mayors that kind of access without giving them admin control... Which I don't like doing for obvious reasons.

However A town is quite easily able to set up a committie and I am pretty sure they do have some control over who can build what etc.... I am all up for helping towns form, but I do not want to have to run a town or help run a town as I am too busy with Server stuff, and I don't like to intrude on Town mayors ideas :)

Alright cool, I look forward to it! :D