before I start, the intention of this suggestion is to bring more pvp, in balanced and fair way.
as many people have noticed by now, thingwalls and pvp does not go too well right now, there was one major fight over thingwall and then most of the realm expansions were done without much action.
it might appear this is due to picking up safer way of expanding realm, and soon enough when realms will run out of free expansions, there will be more fights.. I doubt that, but I hope I am wrong and there will be more action.
there is also known issue of limitation to the expansion, a Realm can only expand by 3 territories at given time window, which is kinda fair, but also opened for some form of abuse, in theory multiple baby realms can be created to challenge the big one and make it weaker, so it would seem fair to allow big realm attack multiple realms at once, but on the other hand it would be even more opened for abuse are big realms could create small one to go trough
with that being said I would like to suggest yet another solution, lets break that task ( realm expansion ) into smaller ones that we can logically separate, what I suggest is to separate thingwall conquering, from realm expanding
the way I see it it could be described as following:
- thingwalls controlled by a realm can be challenged by another realm at any given time, challenge can be delayed as w12, up to 24h, once.
- winning a challenge would only free the thingwall up, making it possible to challenge it during the expansion window.
- realms can be expanded only during currently established thingwall timers ( expansion windows )
this idea would possibly intensify pvp, add bit of a strategy, and make expanding bit more interesting at any stage of the world, not only now but also if not even more so in the future, realms would have to plan ahead their expansions by first challenging the thingwalls within 24h before the expansion window, defenders would have some strategic moves from there too, they could delay challenges as they wish to make them closer or further from the expansion window, generally I see great potential in it and I do hope you will too
tldr: separate "fights for thinwalls" from "realm expansion"
please keep conversation civil.