Rise and Shine: Strategus 2014, starting 16th February, 2000 CET

[Elindor]

  Also, can you guys add the ability for owners of holdings to add comments that people can see when they click on the holding which describe their trading status?  IE - "Open for trade to anyone" "Closed to trade except allies", or whatever.

[the real god emperor]

I smell A LOT of clan spy-implantation with this feature.
For example, someone in a clan delivers all the info to the enemies and moreover fights for the enemies anonymously. That should be interesting.

I doubt any big clans would want to hire someone who wants to fight anonymous.I wouldn't

[Varadin]

What about ballistas ? Add them please !

[Inglorious]

Here's a quick question:

 If you fight anonymously, do you use the faction banner of the team you applied for?

I.E. If you sign up for a village AI, do you use village team banner and not personal clan banner? It would supersede the attempt to hide that your faction is against the attacking factions take over of fief.

 

[Macropus]

Unless fighting anonymously also changes my face lol there's really no point in me doing it xD it kinda sticks out, well... it literally sticks out through some helmets...

1. Make a new character with your custom face
2. Change your main's face to a random one
3. Delete your main ingame after the battle
4. Edit your new character's face without changing it.
5. Create a new character with your main's name, it will automatically have the custom face you ended up after the last edit.

[kinngrimm]

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I disagree, I don't see why full plate armies should ever become a viable option.

My system was never relying on full plate armies, i dont mind them not being there. I only came back at the end of strat 4.0 where that was going on already for a while and fo me it was still a novum at that time. I also found out pretty quickly that those battles are disturbingly boring. So by any means make the price 20 times as high as it was before  My concern was more that it would be as expensive, that it would not be even possible anymore. Also when you get better outcomes per gold with less good equipment, why would anyone get higher tier equipment, the delimiting factor mostly had been tickets not gold. Only because there maybe more expensive gear, doesnt reduce or increase the troop tickets. In that last sense, the crime mechanic is much more interesting to keep an eye on. Expensive gear, noone will give a fuck about that anymore. Back to strat 2.0, lowcost armies ^^

donkeys:
Could we get a specialisated transport vehicle please? make donkeys carry twice as much as a horse would. Perhaps decrease the price another notch to around 40 to 44
Atm there is no reason to buy donkeys, as Stumpter(262g) would cost pretty much the same but are 1/3 faster.
So why again would anyone want to buy donkeys besides their cuteness?
When donkeys get better in transporting stuff, you then would add horses mostly only for combat reasons otherwise a rouncy for 1k gold ... i just dont see this happening ^^ at least not within the first 3 months of the game.

[FRANK_THE_TANK]

Fix ticks. I can't be arsed to play this dreadful game on the pleb servers. Please find a creative way to acquire troops.

Perhaps have them as a sell able item in town halls. Just keep upkeep in place so people can't use it as a storage bin for infinite armies.

[Keshian]

this where I should post I do not think the fcc is coming back?

This sadly is true.

Items:
People that signup have a default rank of 0, your clanmates have their default clan rank (except the battle commander, he always has 10).
You can change a number in your inventory (default: 0). If you set eg donkeys to 5, then only people that have a rank of 5 and more will be seeing the item in the item selection ingame. It means you can have peasants & elite soldiers. You can also set it to 11, then no one will see anything (against item bombing)


chadz I have to say bravo - very clever solution to item bug.

[Tomas_Miles_again]

Perfect 5 year anniversary present to my gf. Disappear into Strategus and never return.

[Jarlek]

Items:
People that signup have a default rank of 0, your clanmates have their default clan rank (except the battle commander, he always has 10).
You can change a number in your inventory (default: 0). If you set eg donkeys to 5, then only people that have a rank of 5 and more will be seeing the item in the item selection ingame. It means you can have peasants & elite soldiers. You can also set it to 11, then no one will see anything (against item bombing)

Are we talking about my personal inventory, or my inventory in the faction page.

Is it just me being able to restrict the items my hero has, or will it be possible for other factionmembers to do it for me?

[Elindor]

Kinngrimm, I agree about armies with thousands of troops decked out in plate.

What if you could only have enough plate body armor for 30% of your troops (or some % number) regardless of how much money you had to buy it...

Either that or yeah, make it way more expensive...

A) it was bad for gameplay for everyone to be wearing plate all the time
B) it isn't realistic - most medieval armies had some elite troops in plate but then after that it was varying levels of mail, etc.

[Taser]

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Tasa will rise again!

[Dutchydave]

• ladder placement will be more restrictive: (no more using ladders as shields)

So no more archers nest built from ladders? I would cry  Yes you could use it to shield from ranged but you also used it to give advantage to your range. I don't really see having that option available as a problem in anyway it added more dynamics to strat battles that where completely unique. How is it possibly an imbalance that needed fixing?

Also weapon racks need to be limit per team not limit to server. Why wouldn't you just make all siege gear as a limit per team?

 Apart from that love it all!

Fix ticks. I can't be arsed to play this dreadful game on the pleb servers. Please find a creative way to acquire troops.

AU has had a server up for a few months now FRANK, we where getting up to 50players in peak times for a little while before school holidays ended. Still getting up to 20 every night but its seems more like a DTV server now but you still get ticks for playing DTV and I don't think you need 8 players on to get them

[Nazurdin]

• ladder placement will be more restrictive: (no more using ladders as shields)

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[MURDERTRON]

chadz, you never addressed the prizes we were promised for Strategus 4.  The current king of Strategus, Jake, had over a billion renown and should be awarded accordingly.