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Points: 979 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 05:50
I once asked Stormcrow for a research/spell which would hide your city unless someone sends scouts and they report back your location...  To quote him:  *waives hand* "These are not the spells you are looking for"
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Points: 435 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 05:38
Do not see this possible with the new search option, database look up, the way market place works, and how devs want to keep conflict here. Be a lot of work to hide the cities from other players. Is the amount of work for this worth it?

Just to many things against this idea to see it as something that can be quickly done. Its not as easy as hiding it from the player profile.

To truly hide all this buy orders on market will need caravans to be sent from the city that buys them, and then when it gets there it needs to pick the gold and deliver it back (trade version 2 hopefully). But you can still tell where a city is located just by following the caravan. You will need to use the friends list as Rill suggested. Only player capitals will have to be seen, but this will stop players from giving out free res to new players second cities. Leaving it up to only friends/alliance mates to do so.

I don't know, just seems like to much work with not a real advantage.


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Points: 6903 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 05:14
It has been suggested elsewhere that we should not know the locations of other players' cities.

I see this as being possible in several ways:

1)  You can only see the locations of cities of "friends" (a new use for the friends function)

2)  You could only see the locations of cities of people in your alliance and/or confeds

3)  You cannot see the location of cities other than your own

Under all of these proposals, presumably other players' cities would still be visible on the world map; not sure how the strategic map should reflect alliance cities.

Personally, I would not enjoy this at all.  Looking around the map for other players' cities for whatever reason is not something I find fun.

Am wondering what others think.
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