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I haven't done them for a while. RL and being unable to do 24/7 for PFO caused me to stop doing them. Maybe also a reason was that my own settlement flatlined while I had less time. Mut a few people here have asked me. And I was intrigued myself after the move of AGC. And we haven't been flatlining a week ago.
So what happened? Some pretty large changes over the last few weeks. Total numbers are up from 1301 to 1966. These have to be treated with caution as some might be no longer active. But 50% more characters means PFO isn't dead - especially if you look where the new members have gone.
But first lets look at the settlements that declined:
Stoneroot Glade is down from 95 to 70 and moved down the ranks. I'm told the crafters have moved to Tavernhold. Aragon is down from 96 to 18. This is a drop from large settlement close to being insignificant. But maybe it doesn't matter as they wanted to be bandits anyhow and you don't need (can't afford) too large a bandit settlement.
AGC moved on to Kreuz Bernstein.
Blackwood Glade and Deadman's Glen are down to a single member. We had the demise of Blackwood Glen discussed here - but Deadman's Glen just disappeared silently.
This leads to the settlements growing. Biggest winner in total numbers was Brighthaven - attracting 159 new members. Next is Tavernhold with +104 thanks to Stoneroot Glade crafters. But the real winner in my eyes us River Bank and the Pathfinder University which went up by +102 - growing from tiny roots to the fourth biggest settlement. Congratulations to the hard work of Hoffman and his team and a testament that this game is not dead.
25-Feb 08-Apr Diff % of landrush
Brighthaven 242 401 159 200%
Golgotha 173 231 58 206%
Tavernhold 32 136 104 247%
Phaeros 132 156 24 197%
River Bank 14 116 102 504%
Keeper's Pass 55 107 52 122%
Ozem's Vigil 74 92 18 112%
Kreuz Bernstein 2 100 98 313%
Emerald Lodge 67 81 14 159%
Talonguard 28 79 51 71%
Stoneroot Glade 95 70 -25 77%
Canis Castrum 34 66 32 550%
Forgeholm 51 56 5 112%
Callambea 41 57 16 79%
Auroral 41 53 12 312%
Alderwag 15 48 33 400%
Sunholm 21 21 0 64%
Hammerfall 17 20 3 57%
Hope's End 7 20 13 118%
Aragon 96 18 -78 30%
Freevale 11 11 0 55%
Blackfeather Keep 9 9 0 53%
Dagedai 8 8 0 16%
Blackwatch 3 4 1 33%
Blackwood Glade 16 1 -15 2%
Deadman's Glen 13 1 -12 13%
Terra Firma 1 1 0 7%
Iron Gauntlet 1 1 0 11%
Hammerforge 1 1 0 8%
Doomhammer 1 1 0 9%
New Daggermark 0 0 0 0%
Guardheim 0 0 0 0%
Highroad 0 0 0 0%
*Numbers taken from the map from Aussiedwarf. Was easier as doing a search myself.
Deadman's Glen's primary company moved to Canis Castrum.
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Recruits for sale! Some assembly still required, sold as is without any guarantees.
Seriously, you are all welcome to approach PFU students to recruit them - preferably in clever ways. And don't expect them to fall for go for the first offer they see.
We're not kicking anyone until next month, but some very fine people have already moved on to other guilds. While I'm proud of the PFU number growth, i'm actually more happy about seeing that troughput: Swapping a player with decent skills for a total newb is actually a win-win according to our philosophy.
And leaving PFU to go die in a war move on to the settlement game will never prevent anyone from joining PFU classes or events, so it's not like there's a huge downside for the students in leaving. Just, you know, we want them to make the right choice the first time.
While it's good to see numbers go up, it could be that some (or even most) of what we're seeing is a shift of 1000 xp alts moving from being independents to being associated with settlements through companies that wanted to raise their max influence.
I helped out some companies with a previously independent 1000 xp alt or two.
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Aragon is currently shifting our focus to building up our capacity of providing gear to our citizens (current and future).
As for banditry, there are just not enough systems in place to conduct banditry. There is the occasional gatherer, but I have found it more common to discover husks in the wilderness, and looting them has become an interesting side quest.
So, for the next few weeks The Aragonian Council will be focusing on gathering, running escalations.