I don't blame the admins for choosing this idea, there really weren't any perfect solutions for the problem (better than sinking an entire continent) and it really did seem like a cool idea, however it had lots of problems and was, to some degree, poorly implemented.
We had no idea how much time we would have before the monsters actually forced us out, the admins had to magically slay them because we got trapped.
The mechanics of BM severely punish long marches of armies into foreign lands, and the bonuses to reduce morale penalties and payment costs for units were implemented after we were well under way and already facing problems with payment and morale.
The thin shape of the continent just doesn't lend itself well to BM, its kind of awful in a way. I know that editing the map is probably a huge amount of work though. *opens up Age of Wonders Shadow Magic map editor anyway* I still love that this is what Tom uses for the maps for this game.
I do still appreciate that the admins edited Aveston so that Barca could move its capital there too. We wouldn't be around if that hadn't happened because our attack on Shinnen was a complete cock up.
The goal of this migration was to increase the population of the nations on the east continent, and while there may have been some increase the amount of players who have just ended up out-right quitting the game (paused or deleting their accounts entirely) weighs heavily against any gains.
It really could have been better implemented, and I still think it could have been a lot of fun, but it was definitely not an overall success.
I do.
I think it was a good idea, I see no problem with the implementation and I have yet to be convinced that the results are 'bad'.
Well checking your family page shows you have only had that family for four months and one of your two characters is in Luria Nova, so you were neither there for nor did you have to deal with the entire migration thing. Unless you had a previous family that was there that I don't know about.
Figured I'd update this out of curiosity.
Active characters on Dwilight| Realm/date | 28/2/14 | 31/3/14 | 30/4/14 | 31/5/14 | 30/6/14 | 31/7/14 | 16/8/14 | 20/11/14 |
| Astrum | 17 | 19 | 26 | 23 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 15 |
| Asylon | 42 | 42 | 38 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 17 | - |
| Barca | 39 | 38 | 29 | 21 | 22 | 16 | 15 | 12* |
| Corsanctum | 13 | 7 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - |
| D'Hara | 23 | 28 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 25 |
| Fissoa | 28 | 31 | 33 | 32 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 29 |
| Luria Nova | 37 | 42 | 47 | 58 | 49 | 46 | 50 | 58 |
| Morek Empire | 35 | 39 | 37 | 37 | 30 | 28 | 22 | 34 |
| Niselur | 28 | 16 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Swordfell | 19 | 19 | 24 | 27 | 19 | 19 | 22 | 22 |
| TOTAL | 281 | 281 | 268 | 246 | 222 | 212 | 205 |
*One of the Nobles in Barca was killed in a duel months ago, yet he is still listed as a Noble without a unit in Aveston and shows up on messages and drop down lists. So he's a ghost I guess.
Noble densities for each realm relative to number of regions as of November 20th, 2014.
| Realm | Nobles | Regions | Density |
| Astrum | 15 | 18 | 0.83 |
Aslyon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Barca | 12* | 3 | 4.0 |
Corsanctum | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| D'Hara | 25 | 10 | 2.5 |
| Fissoa | 29 | 23 | 1.26 |
| Luria Nova | 58 | 20 | 2.9 |
| Morek | 25 | 34 | 0.74 |
Niselur | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swordfell | 22 | 16 | 1.38 |
| TOTAL | 186 | 124 | 1.5 |
Compared to the star of this thread on March 8th, 2014
Here are the noble densities for each realm relative to number of regions.
Nobles Regions Density
Morek 34 34 1.0
Barca 40 20 2.0
Fissoa 27 18 1.5
Astrum 17 11 1.55
D'Hara 24 16 1.5
Corsanctum 15 12 1.25
Asylon 44 26 1.69
Luria Nova 35 27 1.30
Niselur 27 15 1.8
Swordfell 18 10 1.8
Something I found very very interesting. Take it for what you will. By the way, the number of nobles from new families in Barca at least is up from three weeks ago. We had 37 nobles then. We've been on an upward trend in number of nobles for a while now.
Total: 281 Nobles distributed amongst 189 regions - 1.49 nobles per region.
I find it interesting how the overall Noble density hasn't really changed, despite 95 fewer nobles and 65 fewer regions.
