Announcement: Broken Lands Expansion!

... just forgot to add that I realize you may be running into technical difficulties with the "1 alliance for 2 continents" issue, but I have to underline that you are programmers, pretty much anything is possible, given time. I'm pretty sure you could create a "wall" that seperated the server as you do with the trading option and the sea. 

Edited by DeliciousJosh - 01 Feb 2013 at 11:37

Janosch wrote: Yeesha D'ni wrote: GM Luna wrote: You can have 2 game accounts. Each game account can have 10 cities on Elgea and 10 on Broken Lands if they want.  Luna Possible partnership breaks, nervous breakdown, Illy break .... I can foresee lots of breaks then with xxx cities on different continents in totally different contexts. To be serious: I am not happy about those broken continent idea. Hope there will be a way to interact between. As you usually play one identity, have your friends and your Ally ingame, but dealing with too many construction areas doesn't help anybody, quite the reverse, it could lead to Illyriad tiredness, RL timestress (most of us work and have families), confusion in micromanagement and cities loosing meaningfulness. Those two continents need a connection, as nobody can be in 2++ allies without going crazy. Illyrian virtual life will probably loose consistency. And concerning those HTML 5 map. It's awesome. Hope we can find a way to get this feature without loosing all Ipad  users. Maybe HTML 5 as an optional feature (2D and 3D mode). But all in all: can't wait this update.... sooner then soon! I largely agree to this statement including the great 3d features. Even running two accounts with ten cities each is too much (at least for me). Adding a new server/separate world or a new continent to the same world is a great step. But doing some mixture out of it sounds like a bad idea to me. I have settled all my cities relatively close together. not interested in starting a new totally separate hub/game. If the set-up is as it sounds like, most players and alliances will (have to) choose between the old and the new continent. That opens the questions what active players in the new world do that entirely want to migrate to the new world. They need to abandon their accounts and create new ones? Or do they need to ask other players to take over all their cities? I see particularly smaller players and new players join the new continent. This will particularly weaken small alliances and lead to a reduced inflow of new players (=less chances for small/new alliances to grow). Not sure, if that will really benefit the established part of Illyriad. However, we will see how things develop.

GM Luna wrote: Think of BL as a land expansion. The lands are separated, yes, but your account is still the same. The account is what belongs to the alliance, not the towns.  Luna

Edited by Darmon - 01 Feb 2013 at 03:59

Yeesha D'ni wrote: GM Luna wrote: You can have 2 game accounts. Each game account can have 10 cities on Elgea and 10 on Broken Lands if they want.  Luna Possible partnership breaks, nervous breakdown, Illy break .... I can foresee lots of breaks then with xxx cities on different continents in totally different contexts. To be serious: I am not happy about those broken continent idea. Hope there will be a way to interact between. As you usually play one identity, have your friends and your Ally ingame, but dealing with too many construction areas doesn't help anybody, quite the reverse, it could lead to Illyriad tiredness, RL timestress (most of us work and have families), confusion in micromanagement and cities loosing meaningfulness. Those two continents need a connection, as nobody can be in 2++ allies without going crazy. Illyrian virtual life will probably loose consistency. And concerning those HTML 5 map. It's awesome. Hope we can find a way to get this feature without loosing all Ipad  users. Maybe HTML 5 as an optional feature (2D and 3D mode). But all in all: can't wait this update.... sooner then soon!

I largely agree to this statement including the great 3d features. Even running two accounts with ten cities each is too much (at least for me). Adding a new server/separate world or a new continent to the same world is a great step. But doing some mixture out of it sounds like a bad idea to me. I have settled all my cities relatively close together. not interested in starting a new totally separate hub/game.

If the set-up is as it sounds like, most players and alliances will (have to) choose between the old and the new continent. That opens the questions what active players in the new world do that entirely want to migrate to the new world. They need to abandon their accounts and create new ones? Or do they need to ask other players to take over all their cities?

I see particularly smaller players and new players join the new continent. This will particularly weaken small alliances and lead to a reduced inflow of new players (=less chances for small/new alliances to grow). Not sure, if that will really benefit the established part of Illyriad.

However, we will see how things develop.

Yeesha D'ni wrote: I am not happy about those broken continent idea. Hope there will be a way to interact between.