I've personally always been fascinated by the architecture of Hogwarts castle as seen in the films and could probably fill an entire book with just stories about every single stone, but for now, I'll limit myself with just the things that are mentioned in this thread.
What if you guys make the map the exact movie map, like the classes and the rooms
This sentence is confusing me somewhat. Which part of the current castle in the server do you see as inconsistent with how the castle was shown in the movies? As far as I can tell, the vast majority of the castle exterior is based on the castle as seen in the 2 Deathly Hallows movies (and Crimes of Grindelwald!) with some recognizable features from earlier films being used to create a wider variety of recognizable locations. Furthermore, I've personally experienced that the interior rooms that were seen in the movies have also been incorporated into the castle with further gaps being filled in based on other sources or builders' own creativity.
If there is any room you think is definitely missing in the PW castle that was in the movies, I'd love to know which but I think that the castle as it currently stand does a very reasonable attempt at being consistent with the movies. Furthermore I think that it's also good that certain gaps are filled in based on what the builders think would be interesting. If PW tried to be completely consistent with all of the various sources, it would probably end up still contradicting some source while also having the risk of not being able to fit certain rooms or corridors within the exterior.
for example the library is on the 2nd floor which is supposed to be on the 1st floor
I think the idea that the library should be on the 1st floor comes from the books rather than the movies. Either way, the current location of the library in the castle on PW seems to have been inspired by the location of the library in the OotP and HBP videogames. And that's exactly what I meant earlier; if PW would try to be consistent with all possible sources, it would end up contradicting itself, because in those videogames the library is on the second floor. I personally do not believe that the library should be moved, I feel like its current location makes sense.
ravens room on the fifth floor and not the 6th floor.
Quoted from the Harry Potter wikia:
The entrance to the common room is located on the west side of Hogwarts at the top of a spiral staircase, presumably located on the fifth floor, and is a door without a doorknob or keyhole, but a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle.
Based on the info of
this wikia page we know that: this common room is in its own tower, at the top of a spiral staircase. The wikia lists 2 possibilities for the Raven tower:
the lookout tower or
the central tower. From PW's standpoint it makes sense to use the central tower for this, as it houses more room for the actual common room and all of the dorms, whereas the lookout tower seems a tad too small to house a common room and given its layout, would make it too easy for people with a broom to get into the common room itself. So again, I believe the location of the Raven common room makes sense in the server.
I mean if you guys changed everything to the same floor as the movie players won't struggle finding anything anymore because as a person who watched HP we know what is on each floor are the rooms and other stuff
It will be so helpful to us and players gonna really enjoy it :3
Completely disagree. Most players don't have all of the movies memorised and even if they do, the movies don't really offer a guide through the castle. Locations are just shown, if you're lucky sometimes scenes zoom out of windows but generally a location in the movies could be anywhere in the castle.
its fun having changes and discovering new things xD
True, but then I'd rather have the build team focus on building new, original builds for the server (like, idk, Beauxbois or Dormunstrad) rather than changing the castle that everyone has already gotten used to.
1) this is gonna take time
yes
2) a completely different layout will be hell for most players
yes
3) literally each film the layout of Hogwarts was completely different
Not completely different, but still, yes.
They could take it from the middle, Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban plus we'll gain more player and ye i agree with first 2 points :O
First of all, PoA is not "in the middle", and second, that castle wouldn't be the greatest of ideas to use for a multitude of reasons.
1. It featured
a tower that literally looks like the movie makers went "hey, we need a high tower on top of which Sirius Black can be locked up" and whoever designed this tower literally just designed exactly that, nothing more. It stayed for a few movies until it was replaced by
the astronomy tower which looks far nicer, serves a much more logical purpose and offers a lot more space for interesting rooms that can be discovered and explored.
2. It does NOT feature
the entrance courtyard but rather
the chamber of reception. Personally I much prefer a courtyard in that location, it allows for a lot of player interaction, it allows players to easily leave GH without having to jump off some stairs first and I think it just generally looks a lot nicer.
3. If you look on the map you'll notice that there are 2 viaducts connected to the entrance courtyard: one of them connecting the courtyard with the second part of the castle (call it viaduct 1) and another connecting the courtyard to nearby castle grounds (call this one viaduct 2). None of the movies actually have 2 viaducts: movies 1-6 feature only viaduct 1, but any subsequent movies featured only viaduct 2. Personally I'm a big fan of having both viaducts. I hated the removal of viaduct in the last movie, but at the same time I felt it made sense to connect the castle grounds with the entrance courtyard. Making the castle consistent with the third movie's castle would imply the removal of viaduct 2, which I truly think would be a loss.
Furthermore, I do not believe with the notion that practically degrading the castle would gain more players. I just don't really see that happening.
But ye, that's just what I have to say on the matter, I look forward to reading any subsequent replies to this thread.
