[Discuss] Starting more wars

[Tom Vogt]

Vinnie schrieb:
> Realms on Atamara, like CE or Darka, what do they fight for? They can
> not expand much more. Maybe a little bit, but for a realm like Darka,
> one or two more regions is not worth an enemy neighbour. You made it
> very hard for realms to go really big, or to be completely destroyed,
> and I never truely got why. Because once realms got really big, people
> would seceed, and there would be more change.
>   

Much of that is old, outdated "wisdom" that those very same old-timers 
cling to because it used to be true.

There is very little in the actual code that limits realm sizes. Much of 
the limit is that you can't organize a realm that big very well.


> And you have the same on a personal character level. You made prestige
> gains virtually impossible for older characters. Yes, they are aging,
> and losing skill, and maybe I should delete them and create a new. But
> I'm not going to delete my characters for the fun of it. I wouldn't
> mind if they died of age, though.
>   

Prestige isn't any harder to gain for older characters, it simply 
follows the same diminishing-returns formula that many parts of the game 
follow: Once you have lots, it's harder to get more.

Which is very important, psychologically. For a newcomer, trying to 
struggle to close the gap between his 10 prestige and the ruler's 40 is 
a challenge. If the ruler had 400, he probably wouldn't even try.


> Which directly leads to someone that has been frustrating me for like
> forever. New characters of experienced players get positions without
> doing anything. They will be given power much earlier than other
> players, just because people already know they are maybe good generals
> or bankers. But it makes no sense to see some new character get
> appointed duke after 60 days, when newer players have been proving
> themselves for 200 days. And one thing that adds to that is people
> coming back with the same or a very similar name after their old
> character got killed. The fact that all of Tom Struik's character were
> called Dead Angel helped him in getting positions.
>   

Yes, this is totally one of the problems we have. Different from a 
real-world family, we know it's actually the same guy behind those 
characters. You wouldn't trust a brother or a son that much, he can 
always be stupid.




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