I propose something monumental for Illyriad.  I propose that all the alliances work together as one to coordinate the moving of our cities in such a way that our individual members are not split from each other unless they choose to do so on purpose.  I ask everyone to use this forum to communicate and declare your intentions for what land you wish to claim and to settle differences when those claims come into conflict with the claims of another alliance.  Each alliance wishes and deserves a chance at the kind of security that comes from being close to ones friends.  It will be beneficial to all of us if we work together to ensure that happens.

I know I'm never going to mention the good spot I find because then someone is much more likely to steal it than recognise my ownership.

 

 

I'm afraid a short answer won't do. What precisely about some regions make them categorically more useful vs simply "more useful for particular things".

 

different biomes, meaning different resource amounts and war benefits to players, for like dwarf only factions

 

also river positions, lake and sea positions, distance from maps, defensive power, can you easily spread out distance from centre of map etc... there is alot of things to concider, you could also break up an alliance that opposes you, making the land the are settling on more valuble

 

obviously most area's wont have all these, but there are deffo more favouritable places than others

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Its a regular party!

Burn them to the ground for the lulz.

 

1.  "I don't want to give my enemies an advantage.  If I announce where I want to go, they'll take my spot from me."  I think this is faulty because it assumes your spot is the only good spot, but mostly because once you actually put your town in the spot you've chosen, they'll find it anyway and if they are willing to go to war for it, they'll just take it from you.  Declaring your spot ahead of time is actually beneficial because you'll find out who else wants your spot and then the two opposing sides can work together and find another spot equally as appealing so you both get a good spot (or at least you'll know who your enemy is).  Finally, I'm not so much proposing we give the exact square but rather a region like the range you want your alliance to settle in.

 

2.  "We can't work together. "  We already do this all the time to keep the peace or punish aggressors.  How can you say we can't do something we do all the time?  This will only be true if we actually  make the choice not to work together.  It won't be because we can't, it will be because we choose not to.

 

3.  "Not enough information."  I wasn't proposing we start making decisions right now.  Of course we would make the decisions once the biomes and factions are placed.  I'm just bringing it up now so we could start discussing things.  Good idea considering all the opposition.

 

Whether this idea can work or not, I'd appreciate a little more open mindedness and constructive thought thant I've seen so far.  Instead of being the "party of no", how about some constructive counter ideas?  One such counter idea I had was instead of planning ahead of time which spots we take, we just go about business as usaual until after eveyone has moved their towns and the time for using the spell has passed.  We then wait for the town move feature the GMs have planned and we can then barter for land.  We can trade spots (or not if you're 100% happy where your alliance is situated).  This could be done on a much smaller scale and just between the two (or more) interested parties.

 

And even if there are multple good spot, evil guys might just not want to bother wasting time looking for one when some have allready been found and regrouped in a nice little topic.

 

 

First off,peaceful alliances are just that,peaceful.Why would they want to be caught in a struggle with a blood-thirsty AI when they dont like to fight?

 

Second,I dont know about you Shrap,but I like games where fighting is the norm.All this peace,hug hands, and trade,thats not what we all play for.Some of us really like the challenge of fighting,it makes the game a whole lot more interesting.

 

@ your main post

 

  Biomes havent been put in yet.What may be a nice valley surrounded by mountains could very well be an Arctic ******** in 3 months,or an uninhabited desert.Do I like the idea of each alliance having its own region?Of course.But that doesnt require all the alliances to work together.Map it out in your own alliance and work together,I've done it in 3 other games similar to this.

  Another thing that just hit me.This will work for say,the top 20 alliances.But where do all the small fry(including myself) go?Should we get the dregs or outskirts just because we found this game later than others?I dont consider that fair.

 

It's not that I dislike your idea,but it needs to be put on hold till Biomes,then perhaps we can debate about this.

 

Oh, and we're not teaming up with anyone to police the server per the above comments.

Everyone runs Scizor

Scizors only weakness is fire

Noone runs fire types

Tyrantitar is a beast.

Rock type weakness means you are dead. Every time.

 

Low blow :)... (and untrue). We would never try, and even if we did, we'd get our rear ends handed to us...

But on the other hand it might start one also.

 

good question i'd call it preaching since some of my alliance members will actually move while i won't