[Discuss] Dwilight updates?

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 1 Feb 2008 at 11:36, J. Stephens wrote:

> So those of us that aren't privy to the new land, can we request an
> update on how things are rolling out?  

Slowly, but going. Some regions have been taken, and more are under TO.

> I still don't understand why this method of slowly populating the
> island is being used.  I'd think that giving the banner winners and a
> few nobles a 30 day head start to setup their realm would be good and
> then open the gates to all that want to emigrate.  Then those that
> have the family gold (not mine unfortunately) and desire could
> purchase title and start their own realms.  I can't hardly imagine how
> long it's going to take for the island to actually get going with a
> trickle approach to building from 4 realms. 

The initial regions have almost no population. Production is down around 10%-
15% in all regions. Not only is there no gold, there's no troops in the RCs 
without continual drafting.

Things will pick up quicker once some additional cities get TO's. With high initial 
sympathy in all regions they are running rapidly.

If Tom opened the island up to unlimited emmigration, then the realms would 
be positively swamped with nobles. None of the new nobles would get any 
taxes. Then they'd all be here bitching about there being no tax income, no 
lords want to give them oaths, etc., etc.

No matter how Tom does it, there's going to be a lot of bitching from 
*someone*. And we also don't know what's happening on the other half of the 
island, either. Tom's got that blacked out for some nefarious reason or other.


-- 
Rob

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