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Far East Island / Re: Good luck to all
« on: January 11, 2016, 06:10:52 AM »
Surprised to find contents of two of my posts were completely deleted from the forum...

I guess the moderators certainly hated to see my posts?

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Far East Island / Good luck to all
« on: May 27, 2015, 08:45:51 PM »

There are few things we can do to change the fact that Cathay is being marginalized in a continent that is controlled by old mindsets. And for that the King of Cathay should take personal responsibility in being unable to improve the situation. If a change to leadership could bring any hope to this realm, I would rather do that. And that leads to my decision to retire the characters of Liew’s. I could only hope a better player than me can add more favor to the stories of the realm of Cathay and of Far East, a player who is better at playing this game of word-master.

If I could play the characters again, I probably would make the same decisions. But I do regret in making one particular one, which is to appoint an uninspiring Duke into his position. That led to the departure of some talented players, which is a loss to the BM community.

There will be no rage quit, as I have become to take less and less personal feeling in playing the game. I cannot find enough energy to write an angry post on the forum, as I used to do at the time of iceberg. But I do feel disappointed in not being able to improve the situation myself.

I appreciate many players whose stories have enriched the community, and have made the experience worthwhile. On the other side, war is the place to show the ugliness of some human nature, which I have had enough. I really hate reading letters from some characters, who seem to enjoy repeating lies and contributing to the dark nature of this game. And this is not any excuse to exclude myself. My character is part of this world of lies and dishonesty, especially during the period of rebellion. If there is anything I learned from this war simulation game, this is it. Everything seems to happen naturally in any power struggle. No one should blame those lies and dishonesty. Instead those are appreciated by many as they indeed add favor to the game.

It is more so if you are on the losing side. In the past two years that I have played, OW and Cathay lost majority of their battles, yet they continue to be despised, not trusted, and marginalized. Unfortunately there is no way around it. Players of the two realms, no matter how new they are to the game, have to bear the consequences of the historical events that they are no part of. They have too few friends and too many enemies from the right beginning. The rest of the realms, in my opinion, have no actual reasons to fight against each other due to their historical ties. 

So good luck to the game that I loved for two years and to all the players. This experience will always be remembered by me. Gosh I really miss Angela and Usul. Maybe it’s just the right time that Bofeng should leave his throne to seek his soulmate. I hope Cathay and Far East would be a better place without an incapable and tired King.

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Far East Island / Re: Attack on Sasrhas!
« on: January 14, 2015, 11:17:46 PM »
I would really support the idea of breaking up Arcaea. That's also something I suggested OOC privately to Velax, which he disagreed based on lack of nobles. But the truth is that nobles left because they feel irrelevant and boring.

Personally I won't mind breaking down Cathay if that can contribute more fun to the island. I was talking to the royal council OOC that maybe we should have just let Cathay die back in the last war if that means the players will stay in the island and fight in some other war. Cathay has lost some of our active players since the end of the war, which was a huge hit to us. If we had the former team, we would have jumped into the current one without a second thought.

Looking forward, I believe every realm needs to jump into a war right away for the sake of retaining good players. It turns out that wars, schemes, and rebellions, are the most fun part of the game. I believe empire building is fun too, but only to few people on top of the command chain.

The above is a bit off topic. The idea of burying OW now is just like continuing the thought process of the old cold war. It shows lack of creativity. But on the other side, the idea of Arcea preventing the destruction of OW is even worse… It’s like a declaration that no one should ever attempt anything. So it goes back to the old topic again that Arcaea must be broken down. In that case, everyone has an equal opportunity again.

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Far East Island / Re: The Far East - where we go from here.
« on: November 29, 2014, 09:26:06 AM »
It seems the island is going nowhere...

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Helpline / What will happen if an army sponsor left the game?
« on: September 11, 2014, 06:07:04 AM »
The army sponsor was paused due to inactivity. What will happen next? Will the army get dissolved?

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Far East Island / Re: Imperial Calendar
« on: August 05, 2014, 09:16:05 PM »

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Summary:
Much like generating the “unique items” timeline, BM should automatically log important events (huge battles, diplomatic changes, etc) to separate wiki pages.


Related posts:

Improved World News [feature request] http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,5923.0.html
Imperial Calendar [Far East] http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,5985.0.html
Request: add a property for published documents on wiki [wiki] http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,6031.0.html

Details:

Much like generating the “unique items” timeline, BM should automatically log important events (huge battles, diplomatic changes, etc) to separate wiki pages. This will allow automatic generation of the history timeline on the wiki, both for a single realm and for the whole island, or even for each region or a noble.

We should add another infobox called Infobox:events. Then add at least several properties.
The following important events should be documented into wiki (revised, in order of importance):

1.   Creation and Perishing of a realm
2.   Rebellion
3.   Rumours of a Miracle
4.   Tournaments
5.   Unnatural death
6.   Huge battles.
7.   Diplomatic changes
8.   Change in government office
9.   Allegiance change
10.   Lordship change
11.   Noble initiated referendum (e.g. passing a law)

Benefits:

1.   More access to world news to other continents as mentioned in the other post.
2.   Add greater exposure to the wiki.
3.   Players may start adding RPs to the battle wiki page.
4.   Record the history. Much of the BM history is lost forever. No one can remember the king before the previous one or who were the generals during a war two years ago.
5.   Allow manually logging in other important events using the infobox and the “properties”. This allows historians to work in wiki to compile history for a continent, a realm, a region, or a historical figure.
6.   Character wiki page can automatically generate a list of events that are related to the character: leading an army in a huge battle, elected to a position, lordship, death


Implementation considerations:

1.   We should implement the features one by one in order of importance.
2.   We can add details to the wiki page gradually.
3.   Page title for the events must be distinguish from each other
4.   Huge battles: There are currently 16 huge battles in Dwilight last month. World-wide there would be 100? Annually that would be around 1,200. That just seems like too many “huge” battles for this world. But the counter argument is that it’s really hard to draw the line because realms can be large or small. With the wiki page, players can now add RP stories directly to that battle page. That will be terrific. BM has lost a lot of RP stories related to the battles, which are rarely posted on forum or wiki. The best part of it is that players outside of the related realms can now access all these wonderful RP stories.
5.   If the event is linked to multiple realms or multiple nobles, there shouldn’t be multiple pages. There should be only one page with multiple “property”.
6.   Elections: Should be limited to change in office. If someone remains as King, no event should be generated. Otherwise, we will be looking at a lot of quarterly events on the timeline, which greatly dilute the message.
7.   Reduce the amount of messages by limiting to one page per event. For example, only one wiki page for one rebellion, or one tournament. Only report it to wiki once the event ends.

Template design (to be finished based on discussion):

1.   Creation and Perishing of a realm
2.   Rebellion
3.   Rumours of a Miracle
4.   Tournaments

Page title: Tournament Held in Grehk, Riombara, Beluaterra (4 Aug 2014)
-   Event (event name): Riombara held Tournament in Grehk; Jeremiah Risk from Riombara won
-   Date (occurrence date): 4 Aug 2014
-   Island: Beluaterra
-   Realm: Riombara
-   Region: Grehk
- Noble: Marche (the ruler), Jeremiah Risk, Jerry Lancelot
Page content: The tournament in Grehk is over. 26 nobles from 5 realms fought and drank. It was a swordfighting tournament. Jeremiah Risk, Margrave of Eylmon won, with Jerry Lancelot, Viscount of Melegra coming in second place.

5.   Unnatural death
6.   Huge battles. For example:

Page title: Huge Battle in Aboal, South Island (31 Jul 2014)
-   Event (event name): Ikalak defeated Sandalak in Aboal(; XXX is killed in battle)
-   Date (occurrence date): 31 Jul 2014
-   Island: South Island
-   Realm: Ikalak, Sandalak
-   Region: Aboal
-   Noble: (list the name of the Marshals, and anyone who is dead)
Page content: should include estimated strengths

7.   Diplomatic changes
8.   Change in government office
9.   Allegiance change
10.   Lordship change
11.   Noble initiated referendum (e.g. passing a law)


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Wiki / Re: Request: add a property for published documents
« on: August 05, 2014, 08:35:47 PM »
I agree "Effective date" is redundant.

"occurrence date" seems fine. It can be used in multiple cases:
- Roleplay stories
- events (war, battle, take over, religion related, death)
- publications

But for that to work properly, we will need another property to distinguish the different type of event. It would be something like "event type".

If we can link the in-game events automatically to a wiki page, that would be awesome:

Once there is an important event in the continent, an event page on wiki will be created. 
- War, battle, take over
- religions related
- new players, or death
- pass a referendum
- election

This will generate something similar to the "unique item" timeline, and will provide automatic timeline for diplomatic events, region changes, a religion, referendum.

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Wiki / Request: add a property for published documents
« on: August 04, 2014, 11:57:04 PM »
I didn't realize there are people managing the wiki. So I did some research and added a new property in order to create a new infobox. Now I got the warning message, and am proposing it to this forum.

Basically, I was inspired by a republic realm that I am playing, and would like to document all the passed laws in the wiki. So I created an infobox which added a property called "Pass date", and another called "Effective date".

It looks like this: http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Cathay

Frankly speaking, I doubt anyone would spend time like me documenting the laws...

Alternatively, this property can be modified as "Publish date". This property can be used in various situations:
- Roleplay stories
- History records
- other Books
- laws
- different version of bulletin texts

With this nice property, we can implement the historical timeline in a fresh new manner. We can document all versions of the various bulletins. Laws can be compiled into a list. Roleplay stories can be compiled into a big archive.

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Other Games / Re: Browser Based Gaming
« on: August 04, 2014, 08:12:36 AM »
I am digging the old posts to seek some good browser games. And this Renaissance Kingdoms is just awesome!

But I can guess the player base is declining there too. It's shame that the map is not filled at all.

But it's still awesome!

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Helpline / Re: A stupid question about M&F
« on: July 31, 2014, 08:16:03 PM »
Oh... Never mind.. I finally figured out the riddle..

Anyway, this is unnecessary...

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Helpline / A stupid question about M&F
« on: July 31, 2014, 08:13:36 PM »
A stupid question...

I tried M&F today for 20 minutes but still didn't figure out what is going on. I then want to register on the forum there to ask a question, but then I don't know how to register...

Type the letters shown in the picture:
(I typed HEFPWW)
... & Fealty:
(What's this?? I typed Fealty, but failed)

"The following errors were detected in your registration. Please correct them to continue:
You did not answer the verification questions correctly."

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Far East Island / Re: Imperial Calendar
« on: July 24, 2014, 09:26:53 PM »
I am sure some players would like to play the role of historians. For example, Sir TNaismith in Cathay would be more than happy to write down these records. He is a live history book for us.

In ancient China, each emperor has his own era name, and the year counting are based on the first year of each era. For example, the first such era name was designed in 140 BC as "Jianyuan" by the then emperor of Han Dynasty. So 140 BC was the first year of Jianyuan. And we just count the following years from that year. Historians have to reconcile the year counting with AD system.

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Far East Island / Re: Tournament snub?
« on: July 24, 2014, 09:10:38 PM »
I remember Cathay held one in late 2013. Cant' remember clearly. If the Empire indeed conquers the whole continent, it should definitely hold one. 

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