Yes. But instead of the previous method it should be a test of skills including dwarf stacking, gobin poaching, trivia, and one-handed archer duels to the death.
I selected those events so AGC would win every time.
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No. Absolutely not. Let the market sort itself out. There simply isn't a big enough population to support 33 settlements, so you do nothing positive by handing the keys from a non existent group to one that has 5-6 people.
If a few months down the road we have 10K active players and not enough active settlements to host them, then we can talk about doing this. Unless that day comes, let the population congregate around the settlements who are surviving and we'll take the ghost settlements when the mechanics are available.
It was always my belief that EE was going to be a ~15 settlement affair.
For each abandoned settlement, give control to the character who has the most encumbrance of items in that settlement's bank.
And then transfer ownership of everything in that bank to the winning character.
That way, there's a huge risk for those competing, so they won't do it trivially.
The NC NAP would interfere with a WoT solution.
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Yeah that's why I used the words "interfere with", instead of "prevent".
As a lawful evil I find that avarice encourages adaptability. :-)
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I believe a War of Towers solution is appropriate. We do of course have the agreement in place on not attacking the core 6 towers of a settlement, but even in those discussions consideration was given to settlements that claim no towers at all. If this be the case, then it seems those settlements might indeed become our first major "meaningful content" for the expansionists among us. Take all the towers around a settlement to claim it if the owner assigned by GW hasn't logged in, for instance. At the end of the War, whoever is holding those towers assumes management rights of the town. It's a rough idea at present, but I think it provides a framework to build on.
Ryan already answered the other thread, anyway.
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Nobody's talking this afternoon, Ravenlute. If a company can't get a couple of people to sign in after thirty days, that settlement is unlikely to have a stable base, and the web of settlements that is supposed to create an economy from scratch is put at risk.
Maybe none of them will be empty in a month, and it will be moot. If they are still empty at that time, it's going to be hard enough to overcome the inertia towards the other groups. If we wait sixty days, it will be that much harder. The entire Tower Wars is only supposed to last about 6 months or so.
If there are new, invested people who want to build something, I think they should get a chance. On the other hand, Ryan's already said they have plans, so I'm willing to leave it at that.
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After the Great Catastrophe at the end of the War of Towers, rebuilding the settlements will be an active, PC-driven process. A good measure of 'abandonment' might be for the system to check whether anything has been built on the settlement site within X time after the Great Catastrophe.
Week 2 of EE is definitely too soon to declare any settlements 'abandoned'.
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Week 2 of EE is definitely too soon to declare any settlements 'abandoned'.
Any time is too soon without giving them lots of warning.
The point is to set a deadline, so that people can be told "Get your asses in gear by this date, or you'll lose it."
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There are heaps of unallocated "settlement sites" on the map. They have all the embankments and no buildings. There are two within the southern Mountains near Keepers alone.
There seems no real reason to reallocate the abandoned ones though it would be cool if the buildings got dilapidated if the settlement was unused.
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There are heaps of unallocated "settlement sites" on the map. They have all the embankments and no buildings. There are two within the southern Mountains near Keepers alone.
There seems no real reason to reallocate the abandoned ones though it would be cool if the buildings got dilapidated if the settlement was unused.
Or if monsters and bandits moved in.
"Remember Generic Town?"
"Yeah. I used to train there once in a while."
"Well I wouldn't try that any more, if I were you. A bunch of goblins and ogres are squatting there now."
"That's too bad. I bet they'll burn the place down by next week."
"Probably so."