Magisticus wrote:The problem is not the number of accessible resources, it is that those resources are claimed very early on by players who are around at the start of the world making it very difficult for new players to join. A few things could be done to improve this..
1. Make it harder to set up alt claims, possible ways include claim degredation, increasing the cost of making a claim and resticting areas claims can be made (having some resources in free for all areas that can not be interferred with)
2. Making less resources static.
Both of these have been suggested. (Multiple times in the case of the first one.) The problem is implementation or the effect it would have on gameplay. Trade is one of only a couple things that really forms a community between villages (mutual defense being the other major reason
