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

[Casimir]

equality and fairness?

[Jarlek]

hi
I think its boring.. in every village the same peasant gear for defenders! why didnt you variate it a bit

Yeah. Give every battle Zhyang attacks in full plate and mauls to the defenders.

[Taser]

Yeah. Give every battle Zhyang attacks in full plate and mauls to the defenders.

Oh you!

But is every village defense supplied with nomad robes, falchions, knobbed mace and so forth?

[Zhyang]

Oh you!

But is every village defense supplied with nomad robes, falchions, knobbed mace and so forth?

seems like

[Keshian]

seems like

lol no, its actually pretty varied.  Light leather is a common one too.

[Jarlek]

Oh you!

But is every village defense supplied with nomad robes, falchions, knobbed mace and so forth?

Unless the fief has gained gold through trading, yeah. But the more gold it has the better the gear. The reason they all have pretty much the same is because they all have pretty much the same gold.

[Haze_The_Hobo]

I think there's an error in the crime system.

Neutral fief killed like 50 of my troops in just few days and i wasn't the only party inside.

How could hordes of peasants possibly kill this amount of highly trained warriors (farmers) in such a short time??

[Butan]

There is no discrimination between naked tickets and "warrior" tickets with crime, you just lose x of them per time increment (10mn? 1hour?) relative to the current crime %.

[Haze_The_Hobo]

There is no discrimination between naked tickets and "warrior" tickets with crime, you just lose x of them per time increment (10mn? 1hour?) relative to the current crime %.

Yeah it was partly a joke.

Imho the rate is too high currently, that's what i was after..

This would maybe work if you didn't gain any troops while under influence of crime. I think loss of 50 troops from 200 men party in 2 days is too much.. I'd rather lose them all in battle, but now it was weekend and i couldn't attend strategus cuz of private life, so it feels like a punishment.

I know i deserve pain n sorrow, but not in this manner. 

[Butan]

Sry took the bait    anyway crime is meant to fuck up anyone who doesnt attend strategus - while inside a fief - while the S&D is too high (atm crime begin to form at 1K S&D).
Maybe it will be tinkered again by chadz, he seems to be very active on strategus which is a very good thing. But atm, crime is indeed very very powerful* since even the strongest factions only have a few hundreds or thousands tickets. Even 5-10% crime can make them vanish in a few hours/days so putting troops on someone is a very trusty move.



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[Utrakil]

Maybe it would be possible to give the player 24h before the crimerate kicks in.
Because now it already is a problem if you tell your army to enter a nearby city; you go to bed; do your thing; get back to strat 24h later; and you already lost some troops.
So just implement some delay to the crime thing. I think it is unrealistic to expect a perfect timing from everybody.

[Ronin]

Maybe it would be possible to give the player 24h before the crimerate kicks in.
Because now it already is a problem if you tell your army to enter a nearby city; you go to bed; do your thing; get back to strat 24h later; and you already lost some troops.
So just implement some delay to the crime thing. I think it is unrealistic to expect a perfect timing from everybody.

This is a very good idea. Some people have 7/24 acess to internet, some only have a few spare hours within a day, some even prefer to adjust their sleep to fit whatever the situation requires. I think people who are playing game to have some fun, should be on equal terms with people who dedicate themselves to a web-browser game. The lesson to be learned here is, a game must not encourage the players to be nerds it must encourage players to play the game for fun and nothing more. A relaxed environment is the best.

[Utrakil]

As Butan suggested you can just click 'move party of..... to' and select the fief that way, you'll sit right on top of it and can enter instantly when you're next available,[...]

Is it so? If I click on "move party to..." and klick on the fiefs name the white movementline doesn't end at the choosen fief.

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move Utrakil to Tahlberl
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So is this just a graphic mistake and I actually land on top of the fief ?

 If I click on "move party to..." and klick on the fief(not it's name) I never really arrive on the spot and have to wait like 1/2h to enter.

[Ronin]

Is it so? If I click on "move party to..." and klick on the fiefs name the white movementline doesn't end at the choosen fief.

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move Utrakil to Tahlberl
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So is this just a graphic mistake and I actually land on top of the fief ?

 If I click on "move party to..." and klick on the fief(not it's name) I never really arrive on the spot and have to wait like 1/2h to enter.

Don't click on the name, but click on the picture of the fief. Your destination will be very near to the city gates.

[Erasmas]

Changed the crime rate tick to every 2 hours instead of every hour, and changed the formula to S&D > daily_income+1000

Couple of questions on crime. Its a new feature and it would be nice to understand it.

1. "daily_income"? is that equal prosperity of the fief?
2. How the "crime ticks" work?   I guess if S&D > daily_income+1000 then the crime rate goes up? 1 tick is 1%? Or more? If S&D < daily_income+1000 then the crime rate goes down? At the same pace?

What about making the formula public, it would help management of locations...