Cost of sovereignty

Faldrin wrote: Bump..... The game is still dead for players that have built their 6th or 7th town. We need something to fight over that aint our cities that will take years to get back in shape. If you are afraid of people claiming a very remote square and have it for "free" just lower the price for range 10 or 20 times.

+1

I really like the idea because it gives alliances a second reason to lie in a dense structure rather than far apart (the first being security). Tho to prevent new players from getting in trouble with alliances you might want to raise the cost the closer you get to King Sigurds Castle - or some such. It shouldnt result in newbies getting hurt.


Edited by Tordenkaffen - 27 May 2011 at 22:56

Bump.....

The game is still dead for players that have built their 6th or 7th town.

We need something to fight over that aint our cities that will take years to get back in shape.

If you are afraid of people claiming a very remote square and have it for "free" just lower the price for range 10 or 20 times.

Grego wrote: Distance penalty should be reduced.

With that I agree.  The research items allow a number of sovereignty plots that is utterly infeasible (which comes as a surprise), and the distance penalty has kept the influence radius of single cities still rather small, such that conflict still doesn't really arise due to sovereignty population density (at least not very much).

When I chose my city locations, several of them were based on surroundings that I can't actually reap because I expected a wider area of practical influence.  I think a logarithmic influence would be more appropriate, up until some threshold like 10 tiles distance (followed by linear increase from the cost at the 10-tile point).

Sovereignty still needs tweaking. Still no fight over the good spots.

If you're spending prestige on instabuild, I think you'll find the sovereignty bonuses boosting natural resource rates become worthwhile fairly early, especially given that you can boom on resources much more when you're able to spend as fast as it arrives.  Otherwise, I doubt any of it can be worthwhile.  But then, you've got your work cut out just finishing the development of the city anyway.  After that, you'd be done if not for Sovereignty.