LadyGoo wrote:Another very helpful thing would be doing a player faction diagram.
For instance, you could list the forum nicknames of the people and their faction/city/village and the role they play; a web diagram with village relationships (alliance, nautral, war, trade and etc.).
It's just confusing to remember who is who, although it is no big secret most of the times.
Alright, so I've tested this out on a second tab of the "Diagram of the Hearthlands" spreadsheet. It doesn't seem to be all that enlightening, not because the information that it would share would not be great to know, it's just that so few people share this information, even accidentally. No one really lets people know who they're attacking. Some attack wantonly, while having unspoken connections to passed friends.
So few have formed themselves into a group whose image they actually care about, want to promote and make appear enticing or intimidating.
Moreover, very few of the sources are entirely reputable. A lot of this comes from my inferring. For instance, the Grey City # of followers is listed from the amount of applicants that I assume had been accepted into the village, minus the people who announced their departure. They could have more or less people.
Brodgar, albeit very interesting is very poorly documented. It hasn't been given the time to truly find itself, and as such, no census provided, even though they'd be the most likely people to provide anything akin to a census.
You can capture that Brodgar is under attack by A.D. and if I went through some older posts I could probably get some numbers as to A.D.'s forces, but even those would not be that reputable. For instance, I recall I think Valten gloating about how many A.D. members he and his folks managed to cut down, but am I really comfortable putting these guestimations up there? Not all that much.
(You didn't ask for numbers of people, but you asked relations, and I cannot feasibly keep track of hundreds of people without harming readability, so I listed by leaders/groups.)
I would need a greater and honest outpouring of information, like people inviting me to their cities to take a record of stuff, or for them to provide information to the public for me to do this better.
Things like village locations, I can verify by walking to them, or through seeing some activity on the map.
This other information requires some huge outpourings from the community—something I have not received in even moderate abundance. I will still keep at it, see if I can make it look nicer, get better details. It would be great if someone else would be eager to pick up this project. Having someone to share the load with would be superb.
