Game Development: Villages

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Re: Game Development: Villages

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martinuzz wrote:You made it possible for 1 person to found a village. Then make it possible for 1 person to maintain it too, please.
While I will be reducing the maintanence rate, that was never intended. The reason we removed the arbitrary restriction of five people having to found a village was precisely because the intended effect was to have the drain rate discourage single-or-few-member villages instead. In other words, so that it is limited by a real factor instead of the willingness to make throw-away alts.

The intention was for it to be a cinch for five somewhat active persons to maintain a village, but hard for a single person.
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Re: Game Development: Villages

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Hmmm.. our charterstone still exists. It does not have an authority radius anymore (It's quite far from the idol), but I can still activate it (If I would want that).
Was this intended?
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That was intended, yes.
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Does it still drain authority?
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Ah, no. The charter stone is simply not an authority object anymore; it is connected to your village and can only be placed upon ground with authority, but it has no authority parameters of its own.
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villagepeople wrote:So are horses definitely in now? If yes are they on grrass or forest terrain?
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Village with only village claim, nobody online.
130 min passed, 1376 auth lost

11 auth a min.

So, if my math doesn't fail me, this village will start to decay in one week. Does that sound reasonable to you? You're away from the game for a week and you're done for.
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Heh. I don't get it. Now, with only 3 people online, Authority is rising.
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Justicar wrote:Village with only village claim, nobody online.
130 min passed, 1376 auth lost

11 auth a min.

So, if my math doesn't fail me, this village will start to decay in one week. Does that sound reasonable to you? You're away from the game for a week and you're done for.
Sounds very reasonable. That's why you have village members so that some are online at least once a week. If no one can play for that long, why have a village at all?
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Dont get you guys - I'm solo online any the bar is rising all the time i do something - (rised by 20k just be me today)

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