Kabrinskia, Astrum, and other such stuff of the North Western Astroist states.

[Penchant]

Eugh. That doesn't have a particularly euphonious ring to it.

Seems to me you'd do better with something like the Golden Confederacy. It's certainly shorter to type.

+1 to all. United Provinces of Golden Farrow maybe could be its full name (changeable by ruler and currently only shown on realm page) but its a bad regular name as its way too long. So what would your people be called with your currently proposed name? Like citizens of D'hara are D'harans so what would citizens of United Provinces of Golden Farrow be called

[Vellos]

Eugh. That doesn't have a particularly euphonious ring to it.

Seems to me you'd do better with something like the Golden Confederacy. It's certainly shorter to type.

Farrow or Mech is clearly the dominant toponym, so your name the definitely reflect that. "Golden" doesn't seem that relevant.

[Zakilevo]

USGF! United States of Golden Farrow :D

[Anaris]

Farrow or Mech is clearly the dominant toponym, so your name the definitely reflect that. "Golden" doesn't seem that relevant.

That would be more true if they were trying to name the native people, not their own realm. "Golden" is exactly as relevant as they want it to be ;D

You may be right, though; I was just riffing off what was posted here. Looking at the regions, perhaps something more like the Farrow Federation or Greater Mech would be better.

[Zakilevo]

Golden Horde...

[Perth]

Golden Horde...

The obvious choice.

[Chenier]

It's a shame, because you have a good point. Aurvandil hasn't seen any significant growth in the past three months. Falkirk went from 15 nobles on sept. 1st to 26 nobles today, a perfectly normal and expected growth for a new realm, especially one with a rare regional war going on. Fiorenza went from 4 to 7.

I never meant continuous and unending growth.

Aurvandil's growth (as Falkirk's) has been normal as of late. And as I said, Aurvandil's degrading military activity seems to correlate with this.

However, both realms grew from nothing to a ton of nobles in a short time frame. And maintained this advantage ever since. The only such other case I'm aware of was Thulsoma. As for Fiorenza, they didn't live long enough to establish any kind of correlation.

The lack of recent unusual growth doesn't mean there never was any unusual growth.

Aurvandil is a relatively recent realm, as is Falkirk. There are a lot of other realms on Dwilight, some of which did great efforts to recruit. None ever had anywhere near a similar growth. Chevalier might like to claim his realm is just that damn awesome, but I'm not buying it. No other realms in the whole game match what can be observed in Aurvandil.

[Glaumring the Fox]

I dont know Asylon went from 12-15 nobles and then to 31-35 near the founding of Kabrinskia. I thought it was a bit odd but didnt complain since it got Kabrinskia off of us and they focused on D'Hara and then Terran stupidly started the war.

[Zakilevo]

People tend to join realms that fight often or fight big/losing wars. Well of course you have to lose pretty well, not get steamrolled...

[Vellos]

People tend to join realms that fight often or fight big/losing wars. Well of course you have to lose pretty well, not get steamrolled...

I've wondered about this. I feel like when wars start, noble count does usually go up. But why?

I'd really like to see (not in relation to Aurvandil specifically, btw): after a war is declared, what happens to a realm's noble count? If it goes up, what share are immigrants vs. new characters from old players vs. new players. Because, not gonna lie– when I see a realm's noble count spike right after a war declaration, it always makes me paranoid. And because I'm a datafreak, I then do the paranoid person thing and start poring over the data looking for trends... my gut feeling is I see a strangely large number of new players with no user info arriving in realms right after a war starts: but that could totally just be confirmation bias. I'm just interested if anybody else has noticed this, or if anybody has ideas on how one could even get reliable numbers on it.

[Lanyon]

I think we are forgetting the rush that occured during queen charlotte's war.

[Vellos]

No I remember that– and that was an extreme example. I'm just commenting on the general trend.

[Astinus]

As a new player, especially if you are an old one coming back, it's almost always easier and funnier starting in a realm at war since you have more in-game things that helps roleplay, more possibily fast promotions due conquests and there are usually more letters and roleplays in the air.



Also this terrible change that prevent you from having 3 active nobles from the start "forces" you to farm prestige to gain fame... It was better when it just required making your information public

[Penchant]

I think we are forgetting the rush that occured during queen charlotte's war.

OOC recruiting for BM and it was the only war at the time for Dwilight.

[Zakilevo]

So... a republic... instead of another theocracy. This will be interesting.