Bukkit

This is a tall request, and I wouldn't be insulted if you said "no way, no time for this".

We were thinking that it would be amazing, if it was Towny friendly. Herostronghold, when paired up with Towny at this moment, is slightly confusing because they each do very similar things, but in different and separate ways. Each Stronghold takes up a  different amount of space, and have their own internal protection system etc. Towny seems to be more linear. The world is split into chunks, and so is Towny. If you claim a chunk, it becomes a Towny chunk. Players can use mods, or plugins to show the chunks, and then claim things with Towny. When paired with HS, protections can overlap, and that is where confusion sets in. On the flip side, Herostronghold almost works very will with Towny in the way that a town could create a Hospital for it's residents, or a local refinery etc. The problem is, Herostronghold isn't aware of the residents of the town, so a player added to a town would require that the town Mayor or assistant also adds them to every stronghold for that town. Currently it is impossible to keep track of who is in your town, and who is not

What I mean by friendly is:

1) Strongholds could take up an entire chunk, like towny does. Simple, and would be familiar with users of Towny.

2) Herostrongholds could be optionally restricted TO Towny regions, requiring either an owned PLOT, or a town to make one.

3) HS could respect the town's or resident's settings.
Every player is a resident. Every resident has personal settings. These settings apply to any towny chunk they own. For instance, they might have building turned on for everyone or just their friends. This could in turn apply to Herostronghold. Friends of the player would be automatically added to the Stronghold, without having to type the commands required for such an action is Herostronghold. Or, they could be tied to Towns plot settings. Only members of the town could interact with the community Refinery etc. Maybe the best way to do this is with a mode. When a HS is created, and Towny is active, it might ask to set it as residential mode (Private, based on resident settings) or town mode (Public for the town folk).

4) Stronghold names could show up for the chunk, when walked into.
Plots in Towny have specific types, and these types show up when you walk into them. The types are: Default, Shop, Embassy, Arena, and Wilds. Towny has an API, and I am fairly certain HS could hook into it, and display for instance "Diamond Refinery" or "Hospital" etc. This would be extremely cool, and would make them immediately identifiable.

If this was at all interesting to you, you could add me on Skype, and we could chat about it. I have a lot of time for testing, and explaining if needed, and heck, we could even pay you for your trouble. Skype sn: Zombiemold.

I'm not about to change the region system from point-radius to chunks.

What I can do for you is make it so you can and towny towns to regions as members, just like you can do with super-regions. I can also make it so that town assistants act as if they have herostronghold.admin when in their town. Lastly I can make it so that you can't build regions in a towny town unless you have permission from the towny owner (/hs toggleperm multi refinery mytown) although that last one would take some work..

@Multitallented: Go

I'm currently in the same situation as Zombiemold, however, the only thing I would be looking for, is for HeroStronghold to acknowledge towny residents as HS region members (so that turrets don't target them, etc) and the whole permissions thing for HS within towny. What you have suggested would be spot on. EDIT: Also adding the possibility to subtract/add money from towny banks would be appreciated. I have seen this done on other plugins with little effort.