Make realms more compact

[Potjeh]

IMO snaky realms that stretch across half the world yet are like one cairn wide are kinda stupid. I think this could be fixed by increasing authority cost of buffs and realm magic in proportion to the total length of the realm's borders. Sure, that'd mean cost increase for all realms, but compact realms would still be OK because their area would increase faster than their circumference.

[NOOBY93]

eh I prefer it as it is, this way a realm can spread like cancer to another realm on the other side of the world, and contest it - world will see even less action if your idea is implemented

[Kaios]

eh I prefer it as it is, this way a realm can spread like cancer to another realm on the other side of the world, and contest it - world will see even less action if your idea is implemented

lol but nobody is doing that now nor did they do it last world because realms are able to expand too much and too easily and any cairns important enough to contest are inside walls which means you need to siege as well, idk when something "spreading like cancer" happened to be a good thing but I agree with potjeh that realms need a change but I said that before the new world anyways

[Sevenless]

Border Stability: 73%

Large borders make a realm hard to defend and maintain. Roads fall into disuse, windblown trees clutter trails, and bandits lurk in the shadows. This realm pays additional authority to upkeep their cairns as a result.

[jorb]

eh I prefer it as it is, this way a realm can spread like cancer to another realm on the other side of the world, and contest it - world will see even less action if your idea is implemented

I have to agree with this. A realm shooting out a tentacle to grab something seems very reasonable in many ways.

[Potjeh]

How so? It's reasonable that whoever gets their realm up first gets to claim *all* of the natural resources?

[jorb]

I'm not sure that has been my experience this world. Kingdoms claim primarily players and villages, not natural resources per se. We have added a delay to expansion. Perhaps that delay should be increased the fewer kingdoms there are? Perhaps the arms should also be possible to sever entirely, i.e. they decay if they don't have a connection back to the Coronation Stone?

[Potjeh]

Yeah, for now, but a lot of us are hoping you'll eventually implement resources that need to be kingdom claimed to reap their benefit, to encourage realm PvP & territory conquest as a goal.

Even without it, though, tendril realms are fugly shit and everyone hates it. Plus it makes it way too easy to block other realms' expansion. And the whole concept of global projection power like that is terrible. Not as bad as ye olde crossroads, but still it greatly diminishes the feeling that the Haven world is a vast place when you keep running into the same realm wherever you go.

[Ozzy123]

How so? It's reasonable that whoever gets their realm up first gets to claim *all* of the natural resources?

I wish you could take over other realms teritory.. destroy other cairns somehow... maybe challenge them.. oh wait

[dafels]

Perhaps that delay should be increased the fewer kingdoms there are? Perhaps the arms should also be possible to sever entirely, i.e. they decay if they don't have a connection back to the Coronation Stone?

Good ideas. Will reduce the shitrush for claiming as many random villages as possible at world beginnings for the first ones that rush their kingdom up.