MadNomad wrote:cherryquartz wrote:shubla wrote:Clustering by ip geolocation may not be the worst idea.
How did i know you wouldn't be against this? I actually messaged my friend and told him this sounds even worse than a Shubla idea.
can you give some reason why would this idea be bad? for example I find it nice, because you can for example form realms with people of similiar culture and same language, and even in case you were not interested you're still free to build a knarr and go anywhere you want in the world
you can probably say that you can also move or build beacons to find people of the same nation, but in this case it would probably be on village level because it would take too much effort to make a whole realm of purely/mostly 1 nationality using this waycherryquartz wrote:This also sounds alot like segregation
in case you are really disturbed by the effect of implementing this idea you are still free to travel somewhere else, but in case it is not implemented forming realms of same nationality/culture on realm scale would require building plenty of beacons or make a lot of people do the effort of travelling there, and having many people take the effort of moving is worse than having less people take this effort I think
So, because like 3 people like the idea it should be implemented?
1. there would be a distinct difference in areas that would be populated, an English speaking area would be overrun.
2. People who speak multiple languages, they might prefer to be in a village with others that speak multiple languages.
3. People who are already in villages/factions that speak different languages would have to do what you're bitching about, build beacons etc.
4. Some people aren't interested in being segregated by their language/culture.
5. You, Shubla and anyone else that likes this idea, can still travel anywhere, i can guarantee the majority of the community would not support this idea so the majority of the community would have to travel to find their friends, just so people without friends don't feel so alone.
6. How would J&L know which language people would prefer to speak if those multilingual players were to be segregated?
7. Who would decide where each group was placed? People would complain about distribution of resources etc.
Simply, its a terrible idea and would cause even more racism, discrimination and nastiness that already exists.