Goblinworks Blog: An Update on the Land Rush

[Bonny Paz]

New blog this week! Read, enjoy, comment!

[Notmyrealname]

I am finding the land rush kind of exciting.

[Ryan Dancey]

Look! We snuck in a Bonus Blog!

[Stonebreaker]

That you did.
How to drum up more excitement for the land rush? post a blog about how exciting the land rush is ^.^

[Nolondil Leafrunner]

Typo in first paragraph: "pepole"

[Aet Areks Kel'Goran]

Sweet!!

[TEO Malvius012]

Very exciting, can't wait to get in game and see what you all have been creating! And now for a shameless appeal for all good folks looking for a home to check out the 'guilld' TEO and it's settlement of Brighthaven!

[Sentath of Fidelis]

Are you sure that is the word you want at the first there?

and? 'Cause if it is intentional I will send it out as widely as I can. Otherwise I will hold off just a little while.

[Kitsune Aou]

*drools*

[CBDunkerson]

Good write up. Should help more people understand what is going on and get interested. However, I didn't see an e-mail go out about it. I did get one on the pending pledge manager shut down, and that too should get a lot of people who have been inactive to look around a bit.

[Giorgo]

I like the part of the phone call (from another thread) and clarifying what "guild" is (also from another thread), shows how much attention Ryan is giving to our concerns. :)

[Nihimon]

Sweet! I hope this message reaches a lot of the Land Rush participants. I know many folks have been hoping for just this sort of message to get sent out.

[Ryan Dancey]

And is a typo I am not going to fix (it could screw up the URL and various other things). pepole is a typo I will fix. :)

[Kitsune Aou]

As long as it isn't "peep-hole" - that might confuse people as to what this game is about. o_O

[Nihimon]

Quote:

Holding and running a Settlement is going to be something that we expect will require dozens, if not hundreds of members to be successful, so size matters.

I think that "dozens" has a lot of folks breathing a big sigh of relief :)

[Ryan Dancey]

Because you think people were underestimating or overestimating how big they'll be?

Settlement size will be a function of density. If there are 100 settlements and 50,000 players, it's not unreasonable to expect that the average settlement would have hundreds of players. We hope to get to that point in reasonably short order - maybe 6-12 months....

[T7V Jazzlvraz]

Could be lots of dozens...

[TEO Cheatle]

Awesome read, and thanks Ryan, I see the very subtle shout out you did there...

[TEO Urman]

I think people have been underestimating how big they'll be. I'm thinking settlements might almost need to be 120-180 characters just to get control of their 6 adjacent hexes. But there's plenty of time for us to figure out those sorts of mechanics.

[TEO Malvius012]

I guess it will just be up to TEO working in Brighthaven to field test that question.

[Gaskon]

Ryan Dancey wrote:

Because you think people were underestimating or overestimating how big they'll be?

Settlement size will be a function of density. If there are 100 settlements and 50,000 players, it's not unreasonable to expect that the average settlement would have hundreds of players. We hope to get to that point in reasonably short order - maybe 6-12 months....

I was (and still am) a bit apprehensive that a settlement would require hundreds to function, and that dozens wouldn't be sufficient.

If a group has 24 active members, can they successfully make the jump to settlement control, or should they realistically expect to be managing a POI instead of a settlement?

[H2Osw]

Ryan can you define weeks away? I've been reading it for weeks now, or so it seems :p

[Nihimon]

Nihimon wrote:

Quote:

Holding and running a Settlement is going to be something that we expect will require dozens, if not hundreds of members to be successful, so size matters.

I think that "dozens" has a lot of folks breathing a big sigh of relief :)

Ryan Dancey wrote:

Because you think people were underestimating or overestimating how big they'll be?

Settlement size will be a function of density. If there are 100 settlements and 50,000 players, it's not unreasonable to expect that the average settlement would have hundreds of players. We hope to get to that point in reasonably short order - maybe 6-12 months....

Because I think some of the smaller guilds that are currently stakeholders are now looking at growing up to 35+ members "relatively soon" (several months into EE) rather than trying to crack into the hundreds "relatively soon".

[Caldeathe Baequiannia]

Nihimon wrote:

Because I think some of the smaller guilds that are currently stakeholders are now looking at growing up to 35+ members "relatively soon" (several months into EE) rather than trying to crack into the hundreds "relatively soon".

I confess, the allure of Maple Syrup and Poutine is not proving as effective as I had hoped....

[Ryan Dancey]

@H20sw - that's going to be the dev blog tomorrow.

[Nihimon]

Ryan Dancey wrote:

@H20sw - that's going to be the dev blog tomorrow.

I just got a Kickstarter email with a "response required" and my heart skipped a beat. "Is this Alpha???!!!!!" Alas, it was not... *le sigh*

[H2Osw]

Ryan Dancey wrote:

@H20sw - that's going to be the dev blog tomorrow.

Woot, yeah I look forward to any news. Btw I hope Lees halfling is feeling better!

[TEO Malvius012]

Another blog! We can hardly wait...