ABSOLUTELY FRIKKING AWESOME IDEA

It would take some brainstorming, dev man hours and development, but allow up to 4 ajoined cities(in any layout to allow for features such as coastal where a square may not be possible) to become one megatropolis with shared resources, seperate research adding to the whole in some areas ( like 4 cities worth of caravans if researched in each segment), and one castle and wall but bonus multipliers on top of resource required for construction multipliers on single buildings, but all other buildings and resource plots meshed together in a new city graphic,. Of course each segment counting against total limit.

Some things would have to be figured out like research, libraries and mage towers and spell effects representing the sum of 4 cities or just having 1 available for each segment and allowing effects to accumulate (like 4 marketplaces allowing 4 caravan researches separately but a sum total of caravans available for the city as a whole) And for example if each city has5-7 food plots it would add up to say, 20-28 total food plots, also I'd cripple the que a little, like a 4 city megatropolis would not result in a 8 building quee but like 4 total.


Edited by Yso Sris - 23 Sep 2011 at 18:57

I don't 'get it'. Must be my 'brainpower' running flat again. :/

Something tells me it's not brainpower that's the problem. You're proposing a very large, very influential, and very difficult addition to the game that would likely take the better part of a year (optimistically) to implement. At first glance, a feature like this -- and I almost want to call it an "expansion," because it's that big -- seems like it would make the game much more difficult to play from a thought perspective. Trying not to speak for everyone else, I know I don't like games I can't easily understand.

As an aside -- I'm going to posit that your idea got a lackluster reception in GC for a combination of several reasons:

a) People were probably busy chatting about something else;
b) GC is a relaxed atmosphere so people didn't *want* to think too hard about it;
c) Your history on the forums suggests you may not have been very amicable in your approach to others, thus causing the "pitch" to fail.

I like the idea of having several cities together making one bigger city. It's what would happen in real life. I don't like his idea of walls suddenly having multiplied defence. If you make stone wall around village, or same stone wall around city, it's still same stone wall, I'd say even more easilly breakable since there will be probably less people on perimeter...

Brids17 wrote: GFactor wrote: Trying not to speak for everyone else, I know I don't like games I can't easily understand. Your time in Illyriad will be short then...

Well played, sir. ... So you're saying I *should* to try to speak for everyone else here, then?