boreial wrote:I'm liking the direction your going with Kingdoms, though I still think that it will be abuseable with alts somehow. I almost would like to see free play gone but that is really just MY opinion and not a very popular one at that. (shrug) Anyway keep up the ideas, I know Jorb reads almost all posts sooo... maybe he or Loftar will give some feedback on how they feel about all this. Then again maybe they have their own ideas and are waiting to spring them on us in the near future.
Well, in my point of view the factions will have enough characters to not to use alts in the late game, and struggle to feed themselves in the early-game. The LA boost is seductive because the new players could catch up with the factions faster as well. We could have LA boost limitation, so once you have enough people boosting it, you do not need to use more alts. Or, simply, the LA boost should rely on how much experience your kingdom citizens have. That way hermits will be more attractive for the faction leaders.
I think Jorb will open the thread, and be like "I'll read it later, after shorter threads". Then he forgets about it, and repeats the same process next day and the day after

I would.
Jesus_Smith_Nandez wrote:I think the way you put it with the learning ability and crafting speed for all members of the kingdom doesn't really work at all, because it would be botted, and there is less reason to defend a single noob with negligible stats and negligible effects the rest of the kingdom.
Using experience as a LA booster will cut the botting significantly then + use the gained experience as an authority source for the large kingdom influence claims.
I would think something more of a trickle-up system with a small percent of every member's LP going upwards to the leader(s) of the kingdom.
I think using the experience gained by the members should be enough as a tax, since the big kingdom claim would need a lot of authority as well.
This idea is of course slaughtered by stat caps sadly.
My key idea for the kingdoms is that they would let their members to catch up with the strongest of the world more quickly.
