Thingwalls Explained

[jorb]

That's fair, do you think it's reasonable to maybe create a new structure for the purpose of acting as a permanent wilderness beacon as charters did? It was a pretty convenient feature of them

We contemplated retaining them for that purpose, but were pretty tempted by the prospect of removing them entirely. I shan't exclude bringing them back in this limited capacity.

[Tamalak]

Huge thumbs up to the changes, especially removing charter stones. You actually have to 'travel' in the wilderness now. Pog.

[ZantetsukenX]

That's fair, do you think it's reasonable to maybe create a new structure for the purpose of acting as a permanent wilderness beacon as charters did? It was a pretty convenient feature of them

We contemplated retaining them for that purpose, but were pretty tempted by the prospect of removing them entirely. I shan't exclude bringing them back in this limited capacity.

Since all the thingwalls have a unique name, would it be possible to make it so if you put in the name of one of them you will arrive there in the world? Would be a pretty convenient feature. Only problem is figuring out how hearthfires would work without causing a crowding issue. Maybe have it spawn you randomly in the "zone" that each thingwall controls?

[trinh]

cementing the paradigm that you never need leave your base.

worst thing ever happen to hafen since swamp fever

Give me farmville hafen with trading markets back... sho ball and things

[magisticus]

We, for our part, did not like how they also function as intra-village safe transport tubes, cementing the paradigm that you never need leave your base.

I like to travel safely/directly to markets though, also not building beacons... at least that would be nice.

Agree, this will kill meaniful trade at markets and therefore cause more players to become self-sufficient and reduce player interaction in general except for fighting.

[Archiplex]

province system is kind of cool, it's a shame that the realm system overall has already been finalized in nature- otherwise it'd be cool to have provinces act as sorts of 'countries' to where people could become rulers of, and realms were a heirarchy of counties, duchies, kingdoms and empires- although maybe that's a bit too feudal


i definitely think that if a thingwall is challenged, it should block off teleporation to that thingwall and perhaps even other adjacent thingwalls. something definitely should be done about how prominent snekkjas will be in these sorts of conflicts because they're all near water as well- maybe even having the waters become dangerous while the thingwall is challenged?

[wolf1000wolf]

We, for our part, did not like how they also function as intra-village safe transport tubes, cementing the paradigm that you never need leave your base.

I like to travel safely/directly to markets though, also not building beacons... at least that would be nice.

Agree, this will kill meaniful trade at markets and therefore cause more players to become self-sufficient and reduce player interaction in general except for fighting.

The other possibility is that more local trade will happen with long distance trades being less of the norm.

[KwonChiMin]

What happens if the coronation stone is built right at the border of 2 provinces?

[shubla]

Why isnt the map overlay extended to caves?

[Zampfeo]

We, for our part, did not like how they also function as intra-village safe transport tubes, cementing the paradigm that you never need leave your base.

I like the thingwalls, but maybe a few tweaks could allow global trade to continue. Perhaps a realm buff that turns your thingwall into a beacon so anyone from any thingwall can travel to it regardless of known thingwalls. Maybe even allow anyone with <50% travel weariness to travel to it if they do not possess enough will. The risk of moving goods to your local thingwall and then again at the market may be enough, but if you really want thingwall ambushes to become a thing, this thingwall beacon could require someone to travel between each thingwall one-by-one with a small cooldown between each activation. Sort of similar to travel in Eve I guess.