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East Island / Re: Highmarch's Betrayal ---- What next???

« on: July 18, 2018, 12:43:21 PM »

Chenier had always been...iffy on the alliance with Vix in my memory.  I remember multiple times when he pushed "issues" with working with the Vix and tried to get us riled up against them.  Those of us who came from Oligarch and Xavax were...shall we say...strong in our wishes to work with the Vix.

When Perdan's royalty had "problems" and the realm began to collapse, the former Oligarchians and Xavax who helped the South moved to shore up Perdan so it wouldn't fall.

With us no longer pushing to stay loyal to the South, Chenier had some of the remaining Highmarchians banished and then managed to score a majority of those remaining to decide to abandon the alliance with Vix and look to the North for aid.

They refused to send representatives to the Southern Council which was organizing to seek peace with the North, negotiated their own separate individual peace with the North in secret, and then announced they were abandoning the South.

So they were kicked out of the Southern Coalition and are now fighting with the North.  After MORE Highmarchians left for various Southern realms.

This is of course from the perspective of an Oligarchian who is rather devoted to the idea of fighting the Elven Masters of Sirion. 

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Feature Requests / Re: Unit Disipline

« on: July 16, 2018, 08:54:56 PM »

I actually think something like this could work with the existing stats we have right now.

Training and Cohesion.

Imagine a unit with low cohesion and low training would be more...ahem...wanton in their walking around a region.

As training and cohesion increases, their chances of randomly doing this go down until a 100% on both would make them generally unwilling to do it without orders.

Then maybe have the chances go up and down based on the allegiance of the region they are in.  They would be least likely to do it in a region of your own duchy.  A bit more likely to do it in another duchy of your realm.  It would be more pronounced in foreign regions.  Less pronounced in federated regions.  A little more in allied regions.  More in peaceful, or neutral regions.  And they'd be downright enthusiastic in their attempts to find fun and sun in regions they are at war with.

What might be even MORE interesting would be to modify all the current "looting" reports so they only happen during turn change.  Handle them like "hunting" commands, where you can command them anytime during the turn, and then they activate during the turn change.  That way every looter in the region gets a chance to get a little bit out of the region rather than having a militia form and stop them from trying part way through the turn.  AND it would mask whether or not the looting was done via orders or this random mechanic based on troop discipline.

A player could send his unit out to loot a region and then claim "I didn't order them.  They did it on their own.  I will surely discipline them."  And nobody could tell for certain.  It would make for an interesting complication to gameplay.

 

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BM General Discussion / Re: I think he's gonna make it...

« on: July 16, 2018, 08:41:13 PM »

He's only mostly dead...

 

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BM General Discussion / Re: Discussion on Monsters

« on: July 16, 2018, 08:40:17 PM »

That was the feeling I had as well.

But I still really like the idea. 

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BM General Discussion / Re: Discussion on Monsters

« on: July 14, 2018, 11:25:43 AM »

My idea of making takeovers take longer and having regions lose control and go rogue easier was based on the idea that this is a game where lords and nobles are supposed to be powerful.

And visible.  If there are too few nobles in a realm, compared to its size, the realm simply would not look "good" to the peasants.  They would resist being part of the realm.

That might encourage players to band together to make stronger realms.  Or it might not.  Players are notoriously unwilling to give up their small kingdoms and kingships for the greater good. 

I do love Chenier's idea of the Imperial or Protectorate regions.  To make that work, I would suggest that when a region is taken over it become an Imperial region rather than joining a duchy.  And if a region loses its lord and is not given a new lord within...say...a week...it become an Imperial region by default.  The ruler should have the right to hand those out to nobles if he wants, or to keep them as Imperial regions.

I honestly don't know how that would work with the idea of trying to concentrate nobles in a smaller number of closer realms, but I love the idea and think it would be awesome.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Discussion on Monsters

« on: July 11, 2018, 05:21:44 PM »

I like the idea.

Though maybe instead of making it a really hard "can't TO" thing, maybe we could make some kind of "resist TO" code where nations with a low Noble to land ratio would just find it harder to TO a region.  Say either the TO options don't do as much, or that there is a "TO LOSS" rating running at each turn change with a higher loss for low density realms.  Would that be easy to code?

Another idea would be to have an increased loss of region control for low density realms with the loss increasing drastically the farther the region is away from the capital.

Basically between the two it would drastically increase the regions that go rogue while making it harder to TO until the noble to region density increases to the target amount you wish to promote.

That would be a code that, once implemented, would be self regulating to the level you want it to be.  You would never have to change it manually, once the bugs are worked out of it of course. 

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Feature Requests / Re: Adventurers accumulating excess amounts of gold

« on: July 05, 2018, 03:48:28 AM »

Because we can only have one noble on an island now...and if we already have a noble on the island, we're going to have to pause one of them immediately after doing this.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Discussion on Monsters

« on: June 29, 2018, 05:36:02 AM »

That's a very true issue right there.

This game was designed back when people could run two characters on a continent, and that loss has greatly reduced the numbers of characters available.

Especially when combined with the reduction in players over the years.

Even sinking islands has only masked the dropping population.

That doesn't mean I think the right answer to the issue is what is happening now.  There have been some interesting ideas that would be cool.  What is happening now is not one of them.  Or so it appears.

Now Dwilight had an interesting idea where the West Continent was overrrun.  I didn't live through it, and have heard horror stories of what it was like, especially since the devs didn't say what they were doing until after the fact, but I think it was a very good idea.  Pick an area and say "here there be monsters.  don't go there."  It forced the human realms to contract into a tighter area to survive.

Perhaps something like that is called for on BT.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Discussion on Monsters

« on: June 28, 2018, 07:48:59 AM »

Let's put it this way.

I joined this game to play war against other thinking foes.  AKA people.  It's called BattleMaster for a reason.

Losing realms to monster swarms and droughts is not the kind of AccountingMaster I enjoy playing.

If you want BT to be an interesting game to play, let us get back to our inter-realm politicking and the wars that were just starting to build after the recovering from the last invasion.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Discussion on Monsters

« on: June 26, 2018, 09:03:42 AM »

I prefer realms die due to the actions of players.

It makes for far more interesting stories than "death by monster swarms."

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BM General Discussion / Re: Discussion on Monsters

« on: June 26, 2018, 03:33:24 AM »

Looking at the map today...and the food statistics...

We're...a month...maybe two...from half the realms simply being starved out...

Rough times ahead if the monster swarms keep eating all the food in the countryside like they have been...

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Feature Requests / Re: Allow knights to build shrines

« on: June 26, 2018, 03:10:36 AM »

I would prefer one shrine per religion per region.

But one per estate could work.  Though what would happen when estates are removed by the lord?

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Feature Requests / Re: Secondary Class Idea

« on: June 01, 2018, 08:03:57 AM »

I like the general idea.

Though I'm uncertain about reducing honor and prestige.

That seems like a...powerful downside to the whole class.

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East Island / Re: Magical Events in Bescanon & Surrounding Regions

« on: June 01, 2018, 07:59:55 AM »

What you mean to do in your own mind and what it appears you are doing from the outside are not always the same.

Appearances do matter.

And while you certainly may not have meant to give preferential treatment to instantly respond to a portal event that gave the Northern Alliance a massive advantage by removing walls and recruitment centers from the Southern Alliance, that is what ended up happening.

And while you certainly may not have meant to give preferential treatment to the Northern Alliance by delaying response to a portal event meant to reverse some of that damage, some people could make the case that is what has ended up happening.

I know the devs are busy, and I know there are not as many devs as there used to be.  I'm honestly not trying to bust your balls or anything, but it is honestly annoying as a player to have it feel as if the weight of the devs is pressing the scales against you as a player.  Whether or not that is actually what is happening.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Script to copy your Battle Report to the Wiki easily

« on: June 01, 2018, 07:49:46 AM »

Very nice dude.