House placement clarification for staff

[Iago Venport]

Hey staffers...first off you all have been awesome with all the work you've done to help me conquer luna and the surrounding area *innocent whistle*. Love all that you've done with the shard over the past 5+ years I've been here.

I had a question about placing houses however. I'm super old school UO...played beta, was in chessie and placed a zillion houses and the same rules there apply here except for one thing I'm unclear on:

On this shard if I personally place a house I'm able to nudge up to another house and leave 1 tile of space between the two on the east/west sides with 5 tiles of space north/south.

Looking at the wiki however and having a GM help move/place it states 6. The house cannot be too close to other houses, even if they are owned by the same player. There has to be a 2-tile walkable gap on east/north/west sides, and a 5-tile walkable gap on the south, between any two houses.

I understand this is probably for yard wand purposes, but it's a bit confusing especially if that 1 tile can make the difference between an awesomely placed keep/castle/whatever vs a sandstone cottage that I'll die alone in.

So the question is which is it...I guess the answer is...both?

-Iago

[+Requiem]

Hey staffers...first off you all have been awesome with all the work you've done to help me conquer luna and the surrounding area *innocent whistle*. Love all that you've done with the shard over the past 5+ years I've been here.

I had a question about placing houses however. I'm super old school UO...played beta, was in chessie and placed a zillion houses and the same rules there apply here except for one thing I'm unclear on:

On this shard if I personally place a house I'm able to nudge up to another house and leave 1 tile of space between the two on the east/west sides with 5 tiles of space north/south.

Looking at the wiki however and having a GM help move/place it states 6. The house cannot be too close to other houses, even if they are owned by the same player. There has to be a 2-tile walkable gap on east/north/west sides, and a 5-tile walkable gap on the south, between any two houses.

I understand this is probably for yard wand purposes, but it's a bit confusing especially if that 1 tile can make the difference between an awesomely placed keep/castle/whatever vs a sandstone cottage that I'll die alone in.

So the question is which is it...I guess the answer is...both?

-Iago

You are correct, player placed houses follow different rules than staff placed houses.
If you place it, there can be less space than if staff assists you.

[Miranda Ventrata]

If you are willing to pay for room, you can attach them, making it 0 spaces in between them. I didn't have room for a 3rd 18x18 beside my other 2, but once I attached them, i had the room, as it freed up 2 spaces. If they were north-south, i would have freed up 6 spaces.

[Iago Venport]

Thanks Miranda, trust me I'm all over the merging (check out NW and SE corners of luna!). Just odd there's different rules but I get it...although I still ask...why...whyyyyy won't you hug me Requiem!?

-Iago