Strategus wipe - new features - vote for your continent!

[Dehitay]

Why not a mirrored map? EU west in Calradia, NA east in Aidarlac  or visa verse?

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You could even mirror names, so every town is unique 

See, this is freaking genius and exactly the kind of thing that I wanted! Though I was personally thinking of doing it the other way so there's an ocean between the 2 server sides. Can we please get a response from chadz or the dev team about this? Just tell us if it will be considered or not?

Also, now that I see this poll, I'm curious about the other ways that I would have personally thought of to check for EU/NA. Did y'all already wipe the database for the last round of Strat? The server selection from there would have been ideal for this situation. Also, even if that's gone, can't you just do a quick query for the time zones each player has their account set to? Or do so few players set their time zones, that this wouldn't be an accurate portrayal of how the crpg community is divided?

[Spleen]

Seems to me that two seperate maps (mirror maps or w/e) would be the better choice.  But only time will tell in testing a split map.  It's definitely pretty crowded on the current map though, so the 2-map option wouldn't be a bad idea at all.  However, not sure how much more of a headache that would be as far as coding goes.

Blue comic sans ms? wow.

[Mephisto]

Any of you guys remember Zendar? A neutral county like that could be set in the middle of the map, between EU and NA zone.

[MaHuD]

Any of you guys remember Zendar? A neutral county like that could be set in the middle of the map, between EU and NA zone.

MEPHISTO MY DEAR.

Get on steam / xfire. We have important news.

[mandible/splinteryourjaw]

Thanks for the wipe and the new features.  I look forward to trying the new map out, finally us loners can be productive. 

The wipe is also great because we can actually get accepted to fight and help defend all the AI villages again.  Thank you.

Have you ever considered having movement speeds relative to size?  I see you have attempted to compensate for larger armies.  In my opinion larger armies should cost more as economies of scale are only economical to a certain point.  After that point you actually become less efficient and troops wander off, supplies get stolen lost, heck even bathroom breaks take twice as long 

[BoneSaw]

Good thing I'm going on vacation for a week! Thanks for working around my gaming schedule fellas, see ya'll in a week.

[Teeth]

Any of you guys remember Zendar? A neutral county like that could be set in the middle of the map, between EU and NA zone.

No I don't, played both mount and blades for countless of hours and I never saw anything called Zendar, what the hell is that, a taleworlds subforum is even called Zendar.

[Tholgar]

Due to several new features and the fact that people do nothing else in strategus right now other than trying to break it for the sake of it (warning: exaggeration), strategus will be wiped, placed on hold for 7 days for internal testing, and packed with new features.

To sweeten the wait (and the rage), here's the feature list

 - geography influences movement speed or blocks it altogether ( and maybe other things, too)
 - you can buy and sell goods from fiefs that bring more profit the further you travel
 - fief owners
 - NA and EU will get their separate region in the map, so server selection will be based on the nearest fief, not on the defenders choice
- hopefully a few other more-or-less minor things

That, sir, are AWESOME NEWS! 

[bruttus]

before you all EU and NA rasist gonna respont, what is gonna happen with the clans that have members in EU and NA

[Kenji]

What of the clanless, neutral stragglers?

Are we bound to sell our hard-earned every-hour gold and troops to the highest bidder out there? (Not that I have an objection for making easy cRPG gold )

[Gingerpussy]

IF you are going to use 1 map then give NA the desert. NA population is from 25 % to 30% as we all know. Then the desert will suffice for NA clans.

But +1 for mirror map tho. great idea and easy to implement.

[[ptx]]

No I don't, played both mount and blades for countless of hours and I never saw anything called Zendar, what the hell is that, a taleworlds subforum is even called Zendar.

AFAIK, it was a neutral town in some ancient old M&B beta version. I only started M&B after 1.xxx versions.

[chadz]

before you all EU and NA rasist gonna respont, what is gonna happen with the clans that have members in EU and NA

I'd suggest settling on the border and taking a few villages from the left and the right. Either way, it's not really a problem of the new system, me thinks.

What of the clanless, neutral stragglers?

Are we bound to sell our hard-earned every-hour gold and troops to the highest bidder out there? (Not that I have an objection for making easy cRPG gold )

Fief owners will probably get a cRPG repair cost reduction from owing a fief (not yet decided, some internal resistance to break first). If the economy works, I'm thinking of allowing transferring money out of strat into crpg so you neutral people can profit from it, too.

great idea and easy to implement.

why do people keep telling me what's easy to implement. 

[Slantedfloors]

IF you are going to use 1 map then give NA the desert. NA population is from 25 % to 30% as we all know. Then the desert will suffice for NA clans.

What is the point of doing this? It artificially limits the amount of territory NA players can hold for no real reason.

[chadz]

The point is that every continent should have the same space per player. When there are 70% euros and 30% NAs, it would fuck the balance to give every side 50%. It would mean that the NA place is easier because you have less enemies.

Therefore its important to get an accurate picture of how large each playerbase is and distribute the fiefs accordingly.