Kaios wrote:borka wrote:The other point of supporting the realm: isn't the best support not to move away from the realm that gets imposed over your place but trying to help stabilizing the area its on ? Also i think if "realm runners" need any help they'd ask i assume ...
That's a rather naive position to take, while it may be noble of you I think you know very well that most players don't view the matter in the same lens. Yeah, the best support is not to leave the realm and continue providing authority to it but how many of those players willing to sit around and be complacent like that stay active for very long? I've seen players complain about realm buffs asking things like "when do we get better buffs" and I'm not even talking about just this world but every world since their implementation and do you know how annoying it is to work so hard on improving the benefits offered by your realm only to have them still not end up being good enough? Everyone needs some amount of help, why do you need to ask anyone instead of making the offer first.
My point in talking about this is that the subjects of realms don't have any means to actually become involved in the management of a realm if they want to be. They don't understand the amount of effort that is involved in trying to build up a strong realm with nice buffs and it especially doesn't help the situation when the devs add in half-ass mechanics like Irminsuls and Monoliths making it even easier than last world to get a nice buff going and majority of players are once again left out of that kind of content. If you are content moving your hearthfire on to a realm claim and saying job well done that's great for you but I think there should be more options for everyone to participate more in improving realms instead of buffs being something like claim this and forget about it until some idiots decide to go up against you and get their shit stomped in for trying to play the game too.
Those major faction players with the best buffs are assholes, it should be quite obvious to these people that realms are not in an ideal position but if they are "winning" they are content to leave the status quo alone even if that means the game never gets any better.
They can become involved in the management of a realm by donating resources, scouting for important things like irminsuls/monoliths/guano nodes or helping out with cairn work. What's stopping them? The one thing they really can't do is rebel against a realm without getting assistance from another realm.
People from major factions have commented in this thread, in case you haven't noticed. I'm from AD, I'm pretty sure wonder-ass is from HH, we both agree that realms could use some updating. Not sure why you're calling us assholes lol.
Kaios wrote:Well, how about forming an actual kingdom that is intended to draw players to your area of the map because they are interested in a certain benefit that is not offered by another? I don't mean the simple act of extending a claim but everything else that goes along with the creation of an empire. You need people and allies, you need farms and food, mines and miners, great builders and strong warriors. Realms don't feel like I'm struggling to create something great, they make you feel like you're just some worthless grunt expanding nice buffs at the behest of the subjects that should be helping you in order to get the benefit of that stuff. Instead they have no reason to help or do anything to aid a realm because there is always a better realm with better buffs they can go to right nearby.
I just wanna point out that realms do in fact have different buffs. You could focus on raising one that others haven't really bothered with like local cuisine or myth of the bull. I guess it would be fun to get a bigger variety of buffs to choose from so realms could really specialize, though. Got any to suggest?
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