[Discuss] 14. Re: Interesting Idea?

[Wilson, M. x84052 C3]

I think limiting diplomacy would help a little bit if Tom went through
on the "city-state" barbaric continent. The EC without Kalmar Islands
attached would work really well. Most cities are positioned so that they
can gain food, and the continent is small enough that it won't require a
huge amount of nobles to fill up. Freezing it for 2 weeks (no
wars/leaving your realm) from the start day will allow all the realms to
gather some nobles and organize themselves before it starts.

For those who think limiting relations to peace won't help, it wouldn't
because of OOC reasons, and there really is no way to change that.
However, not being able to exceed peace with an enemy realm does it make
it much easier to launch a sneak attack. Another possibility would be to
eliminate the ability of multi-realm battles. You can only attack if you
are at war/neutral, and if two realms at peace are at war with the same
realm, neither one will attack. Why? Because this is the barbarian
island, the two realms don't like each other enough to be able to
organize themselves for a unified battle.

I think a continent like this would create an environment Tom seems to
be pushing for, and it would lighten the load of overcrowding on other
continents. Someone pointed out how heavily populated Tara is for its
size, Perdan has 143 nobles and 17 regions (8 nobles per region).
Overall, in EC there is a 7:1 ratio for nobles to region. Sure your
"hierachry" business seems more realistic with a lot of nobles per
region, but it isn't very fun for characters who only get 30-40 gold per
tax, barely enough to recruit 10 good soldiers.