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BM General Discussion / A Fresh Start

« on: September 10, 2011, 12:59:58 AM »

I was just looking at a map of the east continent and got thinking to myself, what if every city and stronghold turned into a new realm. Not only that, but every other region went rogue as well, and everyone had a chance at a "fresh start" choosing a new, or old, city and realm to be part of. It could give everyone, say 3 days to pick their city and realm and after three days, the "city and stronghold gates open". However there are no maps, so nobody knows where anything is, or what is out there. Say you start in a city located where Ashforth is, and you travel south blindly, you could run right into Oligarch or Krimml gates and get decimated, or get ambushed by monsters/undead along the way. It would be like when Dwilight first opened, there would be the black clouds over most of the continent, so you can't see what your heading into, but also with a Beluterra twist, not letting you travel into certain regions as well. There could also be a diplomacy limit, you can only have so many allies, and such and even before you can raise relations with anyone, you have to find them on your map and make contact with the realm.I think this would encourage a lot more interactions, and could also open up something for more options, like gifts, tributes, demands and threats. Each one could raise or lower your standing with the realm (obviously) and instead of just helping the standing with whoever is ruler, it could also raise or lower the realms standing with the other realms populations (lessor nobles, peasants and so on).  Also, instead of limiting how far a realm can expand out, there could be a limit on how much a realm can expand, regardless of how many nobles are there. This would put an end to any one, or few realms really holding power and make it so the continent is always balanced and fun. Of course I used the East Continent as an example cause I was looking at the map, so this would probably work best on a new continent all together, perhaps reset Dwilight? lol j/k. Anyway, I think this would really be a huge game changer and be incredibly fun to play around with.

Sorry so long, been thinking about this for a long time actually lol