by Chakravanti » Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:11 am
Agreed. I mean, I really like the idea of this (some of the proposed items sound REALLY TEDIOUS). Otoh....that doesn't mean group mechanics can't be added. For example, more wyrd goes a lot further and when traveling in a caravan all parties pool their wyrd together and it's expended at a normal rate. THis would allow 'march' to combine with mounted (if not require) transportation. Which means increased capacity (something like 8 chests). Large boats should be able ot use march and carry even mroe and move faster.
Also, for march to eve work either on land or on sea there needs to be some kind of player-pathfinding that avoid trees (or better yet ignored them) and can navigate rivers.
I suppose this CAN work if you can build a boat large enough to reasonably stick a wagon, horses and cargo on it.
All that said, march would have ot be REALLY CHEAP and there should be other methods of achieving 'fast' travel though maybe not nearly as fast but march would have ot be REALLY FAST. I'm talking...no more than 5 or 10 minutes to get to RoB from the current edge of the world.
THAT SAID....you REALLY need to think about how small you're making the world when you do that....and I would really beseech you to fix defensive and/or retaliatory capabilities first.
Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
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O Death!