Moving Cities - a heads up 16SEP10

scottfitz wrote: What about sovereignty squares for the moving city, will they be lost, or will the claims have to be rescinded in order to move? Can a city  move to a square that has a sovereignty claim?

Good questions, and I'll add the answers to the main post.

Yes, you will have to rescind your sovereignty in order to move.

No, you cannot move to a square that has a sovereignty claim on it.

Best,

SC

If people do decide to move what will be the distance limits to another city in terms of squares as i can understand people not wanting 5 or 6 cities landing on their doorstep.

oh one more question...Will the seemingly forgotten military quests come with the factions release?

Brids17 didn't seem to read the post very well or he didn't ask the right question.  In most cases we will know where the factions are and will be able to move away from hostile ones.  There is one case in where his concern has merit however.  What if we settle a city right now and it turns out to be next to a hostile faction?  We won't be able to move it.  The only immediate solution I can think of is to wait until factions are seeded to settle any more cities, but how long is this going to be?  I don't want to wait a month or more to settle my next city.  The only thing I have to go off of is that the closer to the center the safer.  So what's a safe gamble then?  10 squares away?  100? 200?  Could we have a little more advice on what to do with cities placed after 9/14?

However, if you settle your city right next to (eg) the far-North-East Hub of the Undead Faction called the "City of Eternal Damnation and Death to all Living Things" then - when Faction AI is released - you shouldn't be surprised if your life is more difficult because of your choice.

Isn't this a little bit unfair? I mean, why should I be punished by some "kill everything that's not an orc" AI faction just because you guys decided to place it next to my city? I'm sure whe nyou do release them, they'll be made so they have to be an X amount of squares from any given city but if the closest AI faction to my city is going to hassle me for being a dwarf simple because of the place my city randomly spawned, I'm not going to be very happy.

As for the rest of the planned update, don't you think this game is getting a little too complicated? At some point you need to stop and realize this is a game and not real life. Do we really need to suffer travel complications due to terrain it passes over and needed boats to move it across a river that spans for like 400 squares? Do my boats really need to get swallowed up be a hurricane? It'd be one thing for a boat to die to a sea creature because it wasn't properly defended but when things that no one can control are destroying things, it's not fun.

Every time I read a preview for an update I cringe at how complicated you guys are making the game. I think you guys need to work on either "dumbing" the game down a bit or making extensive tutorials. At this rate, no one will be able to tell the difference between a bug and a complicated chain of event.