by LostJustice » Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:07 am Granger wrote:A little off topic but if the goal is to increase participation of the peons... I would think more towards giving the kingdom Cairns some upkeep (stone, wood, cloth) to keep them functional. This would add an item sink to the game which could be operated by the local characters in case these are interested in being subjects of the kingdom - or would need to be operated by the kingdom in case they want to subject uninterested subjects.
Result would be a motivation for the rulers to be on a good standing with the ruled (so these do that work) by limiting the ability to maintain control over unwilling subjects through having to feed the structures. Something like this could model the problems of a kingdom that isn't backed by the general population...
People were barely able to maintain their bases end world and one of the biggest problems with current sieges is the item sink, lets not add another for this kind of thing. If this was the case I don't think the realm would even bother expanding defeating the purpose of the original intention to be added. Not to mention, idk about you but expanding cairns is already a pain and with a road rework it is even worse to even think of this. It is actually nice to log in and be able to talk to an array of people rather than sit in an empty realm. Not to mention a realm that has good standings with their citizens usually promotes more people to live there for obvious reasons, people even offered to help others move to Hedge Hugs for instance.
As for the OP, botting authority for a realm is a bannable offense. As for Idol and Menhirs and you saying they are cheap, I don't think you built very many and I have built enough to know that they are expensive. The amount and typeof resources for each one isn't cheap and I agree a lot with what Salty wrote. I much rather build a Great Hall rather than a Menhir or an idol. With your concept of kingdoms choosing paths, well if you split the buffs then factions will split the realms and have multiple bases and the only thing now changed is that the community now divided in multiple chat rooms which will become dead. You split the idols same deal pretty much. Unless you devise a better or more clever system that actually works for what it is trying to enforce, none of these will work.
