by Agrik » Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:22 am
Hi from a hermit and excuse me if my English is too broken.
Seems to me a good idea that a seamark must be lit to function, like a beacon. Thus overseas expansion would require someone on island (or another continent) who is willing to fuel it... or someone from mainland who can sail there and, erm, do it by force. And maybe it will be better for real power contest with fencing and camping... to have seamarks built not in the water, but on the shore "not further than X tiles from ocean water" (like palisade in reverse)?
Second idea is that further the seamark from kingdom, more upkeep it should require. Simply, it should be lit "brighter", consuming more fuel. Though I'm not sure where to measure distance from... each seamark measuring from "nearest mainland seamark" will make claiming even mid-sized islands impossibly expensive, while measuring from simply "nearest" will make them just work in pairs at almost no cost.
Maybe this will need two types of seamarks: one "main", calculating its fuel consumption based on distance from nearest main seamark on the mainland, and one "local", measuring distance from nearest main one.