Continuation thread/Needs its own thread by popular demand from:
http://forum.c-rpg.net/index.php/topic,21727.0.htmlI've been reading threads this weekend+yesterday and today. Clearly, FotM is raging at Strategus. Justified rage, I must add.
The problems are as following.
- Nothing to do for your standard faction grunt.- Small clans and individuals have nothing to do.- Massive alliances.One solution would be to make Strategus more Total War-like.
For this we need a few things.
- Sign up system for factions at start of every Strategus round. This would require rules and admin supervising.
- Random faction spawning. Once you've signed up and Strategus begins, you and all your faction members will spawn at a random location and each faction is given a starting village.
- Settlement regions. Every village has a region with clear borders, owner of the village owns the surrounding lands. The land would need clear borders + more obstructive/impassible terrain which in turn would make it slightly more linear, throw in a choke point here and there too(Don't over-do it!) I believe this would encourage factions to deal with their closest neighbours first, making the start of Strategus a lot more small-scale, more local wars instead of block 1 vs block 2.
- Settlement recruitment. Instead of having one hundred players camp-recruting in one village you'd have the village owner recruiting troops. The number of troops who are recruitable are set to a specific number each day.
This would perhaps not fix all issues but help it greatly.
There's a lot of reasons why we see huge alliances, this is one of them.
Look at the entire western part of the map, the pattern is obvious. Allies like to stay close to each other. Random faction spawn would help. You'd end up with your faction spawning at a random location with random neighbours. A lot more small-scale, more local wars instead of block 1 vs block 2.
A set amount troops which the faction leader could recruit each day at the village would make the playing field equal. Mass recruitment and mass alliances are linked, you win because you have a massive numerical advantage.
Let's keep this thread rage-free.