Update 14OCT10 - Faction Info

Zangi wrote: @waylander: What if a more hostile alliance moves to the same place as the non-aligned person?  Probably safer to wait a bit for the more aggro folk to take their piece of land in that case.  Lotta options out there anyways.

Stormcrow, please DO NOT make these areas unsettleable!

LET the players dash themselves against them! Let huge alliances build up that want to try to reduce the dragons to a manageable level. Let them try! Warn, yes, sure, but if you make it so we can't even try your taking a lot of the fun out of the game. :(

"Does it matter if these "I will kill you" factions rely on purely military strength, or whether they have special powers?  No."
YES. It matters. In the first case, they can believe that if they try hard enough, get enough friends and get strong enough, they may not be able to beat them but they can hold even with them. And that can be incredibly fun.

If you make them practically impossible to beat, but still allow people to try, you give them some ultimate challenge. Something to which they can aspire. Believe it or not, there are people who would actually enjoy struggling to fight off the neverending attacks of a powerful hostile faction until they are ground into the dust. There can be victory even in saying "Ha! Look how long I held out against these guys!" or "I befriended these impossible to befriend guys and even though I need to dedicate all my resources to maintaining that relationship or they will utterly destroy me, I AM DOING IT! WOOH!"

If nothing else, there's joys to be had by exploring, testing just how powerful these groups are and trying to mentally find a way to beat them even if you can't.

So, please please please don't make these areas unsettleable. Please don't introduce artifical constraints on your players "for their own good".  This means your forcing them to play the game YOU want them to play instead of the game THEY want to play, and I don't think thats a good thing.


Edited by Noryasha Grunk - 16 Oct 2010 at 00:23

Or at least open them up for settlement... after the AI and Trade V2 goes live. 

Monster Hunters can establish a new settlement as a 'beachhead', sending armies and gold to that settlement straight from the start.

Then the fight for Normandy begins!  Once the beachhead is secure... after countless casualties....  push in! 

For glory and loot!


Edited by Zangi - 16 Oct 2010 at 00:35

GM Stormcrow wrote: Also, I would assume that any alliance really serious about taking a piece of territory would already have settled some placeholders in that particular part of the world to stop anyone else teleporting in. If not, well... it would make sense... Just a thought. SC

In regards to this, can we completely demolish our towns, so we can settle them elsewhere?  In case it happens that two people send placeholders close enough to prevent their other town from teleporting.  This would probably only have a chance of happening close to the hubs, but it would be terrible if you settled a city then could not teleport next to it!

Jerec Cross wrote: GM Stormcrow wrote: Also, I would assume that any alliance really serious about taking a piece of territory would already have settled some placeholders in that particular part of the world to stop anyone else teleporting in. If not, well... it would make sense... Just a thought. SC In regards to this, can we completely demolish our towns, so we can settle them elsewhere?  In case it happens that two people send placeholders close enough to prevent their other town from teleporting.  This would probably only have a chance of happening close to the hubs, but it would be terrible if you settled a city then could not teleport next to it!

Yes indeed. There's a built-in game mechanism called "Siege" that allows you to demolish towns in order to clear them out of "your" territory

I fully expect some players to try to "spoil" other players' settlement plans by careful use of the mechanisms.  This is why the teleportation spell has a 4-week lifespan in which it can be used.

Best,

SC