Place

A place is the ROBLOXian term to describe a game that has been created by a player and posted to ROBLOX and is one of the core components that make up ROBLOX. Places were released in June 2006 by Telamon. All public places can be accessed via the "Games" tab on the main page of ROBLOX and can be filtered via tweaking the different filter options (listed below):
 * Most Popular Now
 * Most Popular Today
 * Most Popular This Week
 * Most Popular of All Time
 * Recently Updated
 * Top Earning
 * Genres
 * Featured Games
 * Top Favorites
 * Search Places
 * My Favorites
 * Personal Servers
 * Relevance

Genres
All places are classified by their genre, which can be set by the creator of the place in its configuration menu, to help people to find a specific sort of place. Genres can be set by the creator to determine what types of personal gear players may bring into the place - depending on the creator's place preference configuration, players may or may not be allowed to bring gear that doesn't correspond with the place's genre. There are multiple genres that can be used to help you find different places: A Skate Park genre had existed for a certain amount of time due to the massive increase in skate-park places during the DisneyXD-sponsored Skate-park Contest. however after the contest, the amount of skate-park places fell dramatically, and, as such the Skate Park genre is now hidden.
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 * Building
 * Horror
 * Town and City
 * Military
 * Comedy
 * Medieval
 * Adventure
 * Sci-Fi
 * Naval
 * FPS
 * RPG
 * Sports
 * Fighting
 * Western

Creating a Place
In order to create a place, go to the "Build" page on the ROBLOX website (This requires that you be logged in.) This page houses a list displaying all the places and items you currently own (These are in separate sections, which can be browsed through via the list menu on the left.) but also allows you to create new places and items (Players that do not have a Builder's Club membership may only create T-Shirts, Places, Decals, and Models.). To create a place, click on the "Build New" button and select "Place".

Editing the Place
To edit the place itself, first activate it by clicking on the power symbol under its name; this will allow players to access it publicly. Note that you are only able to have a certain amount of places active at the same time; this amount depends on your Builder's Club membership level.  Then, click on the "Build" button. A new window will open with your place in it. You are now free to move around within your place. If you look at the bottom of your screen, you will see that you have 8 tools with which you can build to your heart's content.

Accessing the Advanced Building GUI
The advanced building GUI grants greater versatility to the user and can be used to make better creations, though it takes more practice to use effectively. To open up the advanced building GUI, use the ROBLOX Studio application instead of using your browser to launch the place. You may also edit your place using the advanced building GUI by clicking on the "edit" button, located on the right side of the place's entry.

Configuring the Place
To configure a place, simply select the gear icon on the right side of your place's entry, then select "Configure" from the drop-down box. Configuring a place allows you to:


 * Change the place's name


 * Change the place's thumbnail image (as seen by the public)


 * Change the place's description
 * Change the place type (Game Places are places that cannot be changed by players playing within their public servers; Personal Servers are places that can be modified by players playing within their public servers.)PLACES.png
 * Change the amount of players allowed on one server (MEGA Places, which allow up to 50 players to play on one server, are a premium feature. The maximum amount of players that can play on a non-premium server is 20.)
 * Change place access privileges
 * Change the place's copy-lock protection (Disabling this allows people to copy your place and edit it for their own needs.)
 * Turn place comments on/off
 * Choose what gear can be added to your game and displayed on your game page (Only Gear from the official ROBLOX Catalog is allowed for this feature; you will net a small percentage of the money players pay to buy gear from your game page.)
 * Change the game's chat settings (Bubble, Classic, or Both)
 * Change the game's genre (as seen by the public)
 * Change the types of gear allowed and whether gear of all genres are allowed, or just gear of the place's genre
 * Reset the place to a starting template
 * Revert the place to a previous version



Templates
The user can choose to start building on one of six starting templates: As part of the 2011 updates, All templates contain Stamper Building Tools.
 * "Baseplate", consisting of a large, empty stretch of land.
 * "Control Points", consisting of a premade map and Control Points
 * "Flat Terrain", consisting of a large empty stretch of flat Terrain.
 * "Team Deathmatch"
 * "Free for All"
 * "Capture the Flag"

Old Templates

 * These were the old Templates:
 * "A Happy Home in Robloxia", consisting of a stamper-made house along with terrain, which received strong criticism.
 * "Starting Brick Battle", consisting of 2 opposing walled towers, two different teams and a baseplate. Players get all of the standard Roblox fighting tools.
 * "Baseplate", consisting of a large stretch of Terrain.
 * Personal Server Starting Place