09-02-2020, 12:00 AM
@Enginseer, You asked me to look over this and give some critiques. With that said, and given I'm a little stretched for time, this is what I had to come up with as 'holes' in your ideas.
map stuff
removing personal houses is a bad idea because there are people who may want to be more solo oriented(not strictly rping alone, but..) and if a guild doesn't fit your gimmick/aesthetic, you'd be SOL. guild housing in general is a good idea though.
locking 'regions' sounds cool until you're stuck in an enemy region with nobody around to rp with and the potential to get fucking murdered at every corner bc of a misclick or something. metagaming is handled on a case by case basis anyway and we already don't allow people to run away, get a group,and come back.
newbie town sounds cool, won't work. if moonfall and theria was any indication, the moment the option for people to buy homes or property shows up, people will flock to them, or high rpls will circle around it. theres no graceful way to keep higher rpls out of a place and it's kind of an odd disconnect anyway.
guild stuff
restricting people to one guild sounds fine, but doesn't work when there's a CITY guild or what have you. guild caps also suck because at some point you'd have to be choosing who you want in and who you don't. remember, 100 players online does NOT equal 100 total players.
war stuff
I don't have a big dog in this one but I do like the idea that Prego had put up, that they used for the BR server. Every week certain factions send x amount of players to a location and then they fight there. If a faction sends nobody and another faction did? The faction with players gain that location. If the two factions show up and there are an equal amount of members? They can fight and the winner gains that section. Carve up the map into these 'sections', set people to fight, and make those areas considered the territory of the others for cap rolls and stuff(obviously, not as intense as if they were inside of cities or whatever.)
map stuff
removing personal houses is a bad idea because there are people who may want to be more solo oriented(not strictly rping alone, but..) and if a guild doesn't fit your gimmick/aesthetic, you'd be SOL. guild housing in general is a good idea though.
locking 'regions' sounds cool until you're stuck in an enemy region with nobody around to rp with and the potential to get fucking murdered at every corner bc of a misclick or something. metagaming is handled on a case by case basis anyway and we already don't allow people to run away, get a group,and come back.
newbie town sounds cool, won't work. if moonfall and theria was any indication, the moment the option for people to buy homes or property shows up, people will flock to them, or high rpls will circle around it. theres no graceful way to keep higher rpls out of a place and it's kind of an odd disconnect anyway.
guild stuff
restricting people to one guild sounds fine, but doesn't work when there's a CITY guild or what have you. guild caps also suck because at some point you'd have to be choosing who you want in and who you don't. remember, 100 players online does NOT equal 100 total players.
war stuff
I don't have a big dog in this one but I do like the idea that Prego had put up, that they used for the BR server. Every week certain factions send x amount of players to a location and then they fight there. If a faction sends nobody and another faction did? The faction with players gain that location. If the two factions show up and there are an equal amount of members? They can fight and the winner gains that section. Carve up the map into these 'sections', set people to fight, and make those areas considered the territory of the others for cap rolls and stuff(obviously, not as intense as if they were inside of cities or whatever.)
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if anyone asks i got banned for sending /messages to people