by SnuggleSnail » Fri Nov 19, 2021 1:11 am
My guess is in the early world people will care a lot about your tile if you're providing buffs, and late world it will make absolutely no difference except maybe for small/new realms if they're nearby you. The whole point is to make territory very transient/volatile while in a way that doesn't disrupt buffs for normal people too much. I would expect the entire map to just change from blue to red in a month if people care enough to do it, and for it to barely affect you other than constantly seeing challenges in chat unless you actively involve yourself.
On a somewhat related note, conceding to an enemy realm to get their buffs is a very real(by design) option with this system even for rulers. After thinking about it more I want to retract what I said earlier about Monoliths/Irminsuls being okay. I can for sure see groups that would concede for a while never trying to remake their realm and being competition because they'll need like 50+ tiles to get to get full buffs even if they can afford all statues. That seems kinda bad, but also pretty minor honestly.
Also, border changes/challenges with the suggested system would be /extremely/ fast especially if people are able to abuse alts to spam challenge during off hours. Just wanna stress I think realms being not bad for the majority is better than realms being good for faction players, but for the sake of PVP/faction players who might actually care about borders - putting a lot of effort into making sure the characters who challenge are actually good/worthwhile to gank would be big. IMO the requirement should be something like > 30% of the global LP leader or something similar, or in the top 20% of characters with > 500K LP. IDK what these numbers are, but ideally within grasp of an industrious hermit and annoying/unreasonable for autists to spam as alts. Cooldowns associated with village idols could also maybe help with this? Others might have better ideas.
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