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Far East Island / Re: FEI POWER RANKINGS

« on: June 01, 2012, 05:54:02 PM »

Hopefully not very well. It would be sad if it just got established, and then a bunch of immigrants tried to turn it into NeoIbladesh.

No, I'm actually quite curious to see how this turns out. The claim promise from the beginning from Caspius was that there would be some democratic themes going on within the theocracy and that if Sartan ever ceased to be a majority religion that they would no longer claim to be Sartanian, among other things. It was his biggest (and only real) selling point to "prove" that Sorraine wasn't just NeoNeoSartania. Nobody's convinced at all, which is why the south was (and still is) hesitant to deal much with them. Now's his chance to put his money where his mouth is and welcome other religions into the fold.

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Development / Re: Toning Down Looting - War Rebalancing

« on: May 31, 2012, 05:01:36 PM »

The takeovers by Solaria in Dwilight have been fairly quick & easy. Of course we've been taking over rogue regions with very minimal populations.

Right, that's kind of partly my point. Comparatively, the takeovers of rogue regions are happening in about 25-40% of the time it's taking for a controlled region (resisted or not).

Tom, how many of those recent TOs by Auravendil were controlled by other realms vs rogue?

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Development / Re: Toning Down Looting - War Rebalancing

« on: May 30, 2012, 11:08:10 PM »

It wasn't full participation. I think some people are still stuck in the old way, even though Dwilight's been on the new system for months now. But if I had to guess, I'd say if we had 20 nobles in the region, at least half performed some sort of takeover activity each turn. The one thing I misspoke about was that it was only about 9 days, not closer to 2 weeks.

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Development / Re: Toning Down Looting - War Rebalancing

« on: May 30, 2012, 09:49:36 PM »

I had to track this thread back down because of some observations made in the last few weeks with takeover actions. I had hoped that the new TO system would have eliminated what Loren was complaining about. But at least in the takeovers I've seen since then, it's actually made the problem more apparent.

-2 takeovers of rogue regions happened in about 3 days or less (FEI and Dwilight)
-Looting regions rogue takes, we'll estimate 4-10 days, depending on size, how many are looting, and if there's any real resistance
-A takeover of Mech Alb by Asylon (loyalty was friendly) lasted for ~2 weeks, never reached 50% completion, and was ultimately thwarted by Allison alone. By the time the TO failed officially, the region despised Asylon, despite doing only friendly TO options. Looting the same region rogue and then taking it potentially could have taken only that same 2 week mark.
-OT is currently going on about 3 weeks of a fear-based takeover of Giblot, facing no resistance, and is still only looking at about 67% completion. Which means we've likely got another week and a half, at least. Looting the region rogue and then taking it, again by even high estimation, should probably have only taken about 3 weeks.

I know there's a lot of factors involved with the new takeovers. You can't just sit in the region, you have to actively participate, and all that. But it still seems like the scorched earth method is the more useable option of the two available. Has anyone else made similar observations or even the opposite being the case?

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Far East Island / Re: Lowered Population

« on: May 23, 2012, 04:03:59 PM »

I am curious if the FEI ever truly had a "Far East" flavor to it relative to our Far East, i.e. did anyone expect it'd be a bit more Asian-influenced, or is it just more east than EC and therefore Far East.

It was mostly the fact that it was a dupe of EI that it got the name. But, Serko built the original Arcaean Empire with a slight Asian influence in the buildup and backstory of the continent.

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Other Games / Re: Diablo III

« on: May 16, 2012, 09:34:44 PM »

I've seen the gameplay... not really seeing it for much other than a top down wow clone.

Ok, I'm glad somebody said it.

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SM General Discussion / Re: Regarding Magic Characteristics

« on: May 16, 2012, 03:58:19 PM »

Philosophically, I think I agree with you, Galivan. Were this real life or even quickly factored in by programming behind the scenes, I'd be onboard for at least furthering the discussion about it. However, for a forum-based text only, play-by-post RPG, I think our current spell system is already overly complicated enough and should be pared down, not further expanded.

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SM General Discussion / Re: SM History

« on: May 16, 2012, 03:50:06 PM »

http://www.lemuria.org/SpellMaster/

That has all the old rules, characters, councils, etc. Click on Game - Councils, and go to the bottom of the page. You can visit all the old council sites. Some of them have certamen archives and the like.

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BM General Discussion / Re: New System - What can be done more

« on: May 16, 2012, 05:46:40 AM »

there are only a handful of realms with mountains. On the EC only two realms border mountains. Allocation of resources should be considered carefully.

Sounds like good grounds for more wars (and ones far more legitimate than "our people are bored").

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Beluaterra / Re: Beluaterra map broken?

« on: May 14, 2012, 07:58:34 PM »

I've never been able to get the new dynamic map overlays (except region names, which is redundant) to work on FEI. Dwilight works fine, last I checked.

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Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: May 14, 2012, 07:26:07 PM »

Maybe we just don't want to ruin a surprise for you...

Surprise! We just let you die!

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Dwilight / Re: The Zuma are Evil

« on: May 13, 2012, 01:40:30 PM »

Metagaming is using IG knowledge gained OOG. How can this info can be helpful at all? Am I going to bust Zuma anyway? I just wanted to know if Zuma is somewhat different from their Beluaterran half brothers.

I guess that's a little better. The question sounded more like a "once I know, I can start planning line settings to use" type of thing. It's still metagaming. It's just very ineffective.

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Dwilight / Re: The Zuma are Evil

« on: May 12, 2012, 09:32:37 PM »

Inf or SF type of unit as far as I could tell.

Isn't this metagaming? Share IC info IC or not at all, please.

But yes, daimons are daimons, far as I can tell.

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Dwilight / Re: The Zuma are Evil

« on: May 12, 2012, 03:29:43 PM »

Going back to serious tone.

I think someone missed the point of this thread. 

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Dwilight / Re: Locking threads

« on: May 11, 2012, 06:42:50 PM »

To be fair, most of the messages that could be interpreted as personal attacks were done by those who throw out the word "whiner" every post.  It seems some people had criticisms they thought were justified, while others took criticism about game mechanics and storylines too OOC personally.

Not all personal attacks are made public, but they still happen, unfortunately.