settlers be gone!

[iamahh]

the Haven world is huge but too easy to settle and manufacture high end products

Hearthlings should be happy to survive another day on a punishing environment, instead they're nitpicking stats like in a drive-through

So, the bigger the settlement the higher frequency of angering the gods:

- strong winds to fall trees and damage constructions
- palisades taking damage and occasional holes
- heavy rains impacting crops and causing illness
- lightnings killing animals and causing fires
- forest fires ruining terrains for a while
- terraforming tsunamis and meteors(no metal)
- Knarrs with higher chance of entering a dangerous sea storm(slowdown and damage)

this would make the nomadic lifestyle more interesting and add great value to the factions that managed to keep a high production base, hopefully reducing huge empty villages too

[DDDsDD999]

None of these would make people go nomadic, it'd just make everything more annoying.

[Headchef]

None of these would make people go nomadic, it'd just make everything more annoying.

this

[Chebermech]

I'm kind of up on another side of the fence here. I'd rather see abbandoned villages taken by the nature faster and restoring the flora and fauna over it, and for the wilderness to be more dangerous and more rewarding, perhaps a separate damage scale, some sort of damage soft or even a hardcap against the animals to make them a constant threat?

[tyrtix]

I'm kind of up on another side of the fence here. I'd rather see abbandoned villages taken by the nature faster and restoring the flora and fauna over it, and for the wilderness to be more dangerous and more rewarding, perhaps a separate damage scale, some sort of damage soft or even a hardcap against the animals to make them a constant threat?

like... 300 stat hardcap? XD

[Chebermech]

against wild animals only, not players.

Edit: not sure about the actual value though, whatever feels right to devs i guess. but it would be fun as long as its difficult, + makes scailing animal difficulty much easier for the devs.

[Ants]

None of these would make people go nomadic, it'd just make everything more annoying.

This. More danger would be fun, but it would need to be carefully scaled because it could easily make gameplay more frustrating.

What would make the nomadic lifestyle more interesting would be more forageables and location exclusive things.

[wonder-ass]

I'm kind of up on another side of the fence here. I'd rather see abbandoned villages taken by the nature faster and restoring the flora and fauna over it, and for the wilderness to be more dangerous and more rewarding, perhaps a separate damage scale, some sort of damage soft or even a hardcap against the animals to make them a constant threat?

this++ there needs to be a cap otherwise any animal or dungeon they add will be outstatted by the already growing titans. BTW whales and mammoths can be solod with out cheesing already.

[iamahh]

only works if the world is increasingly brutal to settlers, nothing like the free ride of today

most players would live like nomads

only organized factions would advance enough to produce technology

[azrid]

So, the bigger the settlement the higher frequency of angering the gods

There is a workaround for this in the form of having several smaller claims nearby each other.
This would just break up big villages into small claimed industries.
Imo that would be much uglier.