ramones wrote:I'm not sure why don't you guy (in this case Brodgar) give up with the ideas of a peacefull zone. World 3 was over few years ago and that were last days of something where Constantinople barterstand were left untouched (with exception of Klaue going nuts one day). Nothing similar can be built and maintained so it wouldn't get damaged by people who like to grief in this game. World 6 attempts failed, world 7 attempts failed. And now that you don't have porting and need to build roads to get to there, its even easier target for those that like that kind of gameplay to screw it up yet again.
If devs don't implement a safe zone (which I don't see comming), there is no chance of such zone staying alive in longterm.
Ofcourse, this is only my opinion.
To be fair, some of the reason it "failed" in w6 was because half the world hated your guts (not you, personally :p) and a full-blown war started. For a while it was quite an interesting place to be. I think its a cool idea to have brodgar provide a trading hub, of course we have not been told many specifics yet..
Brodgar definitely has a lot of defenders, but there are groups in haven who aren't political "factions" but just raider bands, who will just take the fact that brodgar wants to do this as a challenge. If they turn up with a decent number of characters and a coordinated plan, and brodgar defeats them (rather than just Bob dole & his idiot sidekick) it will be interesting. I hope brodgar are practicing group fighting :p