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Feature Requests / Scroll of Eternal Youth

« on: June 05, 2016, 01:00:03 AM »

regardless of how the topic of Aging goes, thought this was a good idea for a scroll.

Most of them don't seem that powerful, so maybe only removing 2-4 years is appropriate.

(A scroll that removes X years of age from user,  in case it's not clear what I'm talking about)

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Feature Requests / Re: Make sharing Adventurer links easier

« on: June 04, 2016, 12:31:22 AM »

Trying to play 3 advies on top of my nobles, this would be really nice to have. I don't even bother sharing most of the time.

Can we get an update & estimate of when it would be completed? The parts are all there already for "All advies in area" . You need to add a link is all.

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 04, 2016, 12:27:20 AM »

I very much dislike this idea. I would much rather see more definitive options like I said before. Allow a ruler to tax his Dukes differently, so he can raise taxes to 50% for more inactive dukes.

How does that fix the problem?

They prolly don't care since they don't use the gold for anything.

Or else they DO care, like the Dukes of Cagilan Empire, and they just throw the Ruler out.

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 03, 2016, 05:48:10 AM »

Again, people are making things too indirect and complicated.

The thing you are complaining about isn't age, it is inactive players who can't be removed.

So make it that they can be removed.

We can remove rulers, council members, marshals, diplomats. So make it that lords and dukes can be stripped of their titles if they aren't "doing their job".

Seems like problem solved to me.

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 03, 2016, 05:32:01 AM »

How do you define "active", and how do you do it without breaking the Inalienable Rights.

"Inalienable rights are the rights which every troop leaders has, simply because they are a noble. These rights can not be taken away or made conditional. They are absolute and final. "

"The inalienable rights are:

    Playing at your own speed, timing and activity level, i.e. logging in as often or seldom as you like, at whatever times you like."


http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Inalienable_rights

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Inactivity

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 03, 2016, 12:47:15 AM »

are there actually very many of those left, now that Atamara is shut down?

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 03, 2016, 12:27:54 AM »

Sacha's plan + Scrolls of Eternal Youth that remove 5-10 years from their age.

They WILL die, but only if they don't work to actively prevent it. They can make some effort to play & spend all that horded gold to stay alive indefinitely.

Might be a nice magical property to add to other Uniques, as well.

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 02, 2016, 02:12:33 PM »

Yes, but what IS "Ill Health"?

Is it like being wounded? Or just less hours?

If a character does nothing but log in once per week to maintain their titles, how does this make them change how they play?

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 02, 2016, 11:34:52 AM »

Kings were less the problem than Dukes.

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 02, 2016, 03:25:47 AM »

It is intended specifically to penalize those who log on infrequently so as to maintain positions they do nothing useful with.

If that's the point of it, then address it directly by making titles something the King can strip (and the Duke can strip Lords).

The whole "the Lord IS the Region " has always been a farce, especially in democracies.

Aging should be because you want an effect of aging, not to try to force some side effect. Old players who just squat don't care how many hours they have, since they only log in a couple times a week so they still accrue in time to do what they want, and their recovery time from injuries  seems pretty random anyway from what I've seen.

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 02, 2016, 02:07:12 AM »

Here's a "critique":

- You already have about 5 years of necessary development ahead of you on other tickets, and this sound like it will take a long time & just be a distraction.

- It could probably be challenged because of inalienable rights (it punishes people who are less active as a normal way they play the game)

- It doesn't actually make any sense, RP-wise. Logging in more often means your character can travel to the next region faster?

- It is a convoluted, many part system that begs to be full of bugs & unintended consequences that will need constant patching.


No one likes getting old, but it is probably better for you & the game to refresh your characters from time to time.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Frustration to the exponential power

« on: June 02, 2016, 02:00:08 AM »

Oh, well. So much for your realm.

Hopefully your players will stick around.

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Development / Re: Age. Sucks.

« on: June 02, 2016, 01:20:14 AM »

my only issue with "age" is that it starts to effect at age 35.

obviously the game is full of youngsters to whom that sounds old. professional athletes still play at that age; you shouldn't be penalizing how many hours you get so quickly.

45+ sounds better to me.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Frustration to the exponential power

« on: June 02, 2016, 01:18:20 AM »

Not that it helps your situation, but "Duke of the Capitol region switched to another realm" is obviously the bug.

Can you check into that & give details how it happened, as that's where the future fix sounds like it will need to start.

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Helpline / Re: Has advy swordsmanship/adventuring skills been tweaked?

« on: May 31, 2016, 11:48:41 PM »

are you buying combat gear? how old are your advies?

This was it, actually - fame counts in combat gear when calculating your numbers, so limits there. Increasing swordfighting gear let it rise up.

Incidentally, I think (but can't confirm) magic items are NOT being counted