by SnuggleSnail » Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:23 am
proly not the best place to bring it up, but during the stream you seemed very adamant that you want realms to be in the game. I'm rly curious what positives you see from realms, or why you want them in the game? I feel like if it's just for larp reasons, larpers could just larp a realm without it being significantly backed up by mechanics.
From my perspective there has never been an instance of a realm doing something positive for the game(except realm chat), but allows for griefing on a massive scale nothing else is game comes close to, for example the following realms functionally griefing everybody they covered by turning off or never intending to have buffs:
motherland(world 11)
vegentable ninjas(world 11)
A.D.(world 11)
Loliconquest(world 11)
North Star(world 12)
Balder's Bra(world 12)
A.D.(world 12)
Kingdom of Ashes(world 12)
Wild West(World 12)
Korean realm I forget the name of(World 12)
Balder's Bra(world 13)
Arcanum(world 13)
Kentoo Region(world 13)
HELP(world 13)
Darkin's realm I forget the name(world 13)
Land of Lopez(world 13)
I think in some of these cases the realm owner simply got bored, overestimated the ability to maintain buffs, or didn't care about the long term health of their realm when they made it. Regardless there are certainly cases where it is unambiguous griefing for a large percentage of the playerbase, namely: Balder's Bra, Arcanum, Land of lopez, Kentoo Region, Wild West, Loliconquest, and motherland.
I basically only play this game to grief people, but I think the scale of people you can affect by griefing them with a realm and the low time investment make it very bad for the game. You shouldn't be able to effectively make tens or hundreds of people's villages worthless by running a steel bot, or a cairn bot, and then pressing the rescind button a few times - or just never making buff statues.
I think every iteration of realm has shown you guys are designing around the best case for player behavior, and every you've been shown people are going to be dickheads(Hi!) if you let them. The issue is the core concept, not the execution.
Also realm chat should be global chat
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