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Helpline / Re: Scouting during sea routes

« on: July 13, 2011, 10:08:36 PM »

You can scout once you're in your final turn of approach to the far end.

Before then, no, you're not meant to be able to scout along them.

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Feature Requests / Re: Close Region Borders

« on: July 13, 2011, 07:03:30 PM »

If we were to implement something like this, it would have to be a constant drain on the region's stats.

People who are told they can't leave will not be happy about it, whether or not they wanted to leave in the first place.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Titan System Revalation

« on: July 13, 2011, 02:43:24 AM »

Wouldn't iot be fun to make a pseudonym of "Tom". Teehee.

But, more seriously, pseudonyms will do very little. In a game where a not insignificant number of players regularly study each others' writing habits in an attempt to mimic and forge each others' letters, and where we all read each other quite regularly IG and on the forum, I do not think a pseudonym will be any protection of identity.

I think you vastly overestimate the number of people who can do this with any great degree of accuracy.

Not to mention the intersection of that set with the set of people who would care enough about any given Titan decision to make the effort.

And the intersection of those sets with the set of people who have actually come into close enough IC contact with the Titans in question to have a viable sample.

And all that is leaving aside the question of how long it would take them to go through all their correspondents who sound sort of similar to narrow it down.

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Dwilight / Re: Dwilight IC and OOC updates and news!

« on: July 13, 2011, 02:40:53 AM »

A few weeks before DoA declared war on Enweil, if I remember correctly.

So, "years ago."

Things change. Or had you never noticed that?

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Dwilight / Re: Dwilight IC and OOC updates and news!

« on: July 13, 2011, 12:30:49 AM »

Have the titans gotten less lazy? Last time I pointed them to very fishy people, they just shrugged and basically said "Meh, you didn't provide conclusive evidence" and closed the issue.

And when was that?

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BM General Discussion / Re: Titan System Revalation

« on: July 12, 2011, 10:41:24 PM »

Give out a titans family name and I fear every accused will be trawling forum posts and family histories on the wiki dragging up a thousand reasons why titan X is unfit to judge on this or that matter for past realm/religion/guild Y opposition.

Which is why he just said they could be pseudonymous.  You know, have a pseudonym.  So you can tell the Titans apart, but you can't tell who they are IRL or IC.

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Feature Requests / Re: Paused characters and the userdata page

« on: July 12, 2011, 10:16:19 PM »

There are plans to reorganize the userdata page, and this is part of what's on the agenda for them.

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Helpline / Re: Lord's caravans

« on: July 12, 2011, 12:14:47 AM »

Any possibility of tweaks to the range, or is it intentionnal that you cannot send them far? My rural is pretty central (Gorin), but only the border cities (Iato) actually pay for food, and they are out of reach for my caravans on BT. In other words, they are just fancier and slower ox carts for all practical purposes to me with such range.

Can you actually give me the list?

The range was originally worked out before the Blight, so there's every chance that that means it should be rejiggered.

But also bear in mind that if you're in a central region in a big realm, you may get the shaft no matter what.

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Helpline / Re: Lord's caravans

« on: July 11, 2011, 02:45:24 PM »

The range is different for different continents.  Dwilight has to be longer, or some regions would barely be able to send caravans anywhere.

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Helpline / Re: More Stupid Archer Behavior

« on: July 09, 2011, 09:58:32 PM »

No. If archers have no target in range, and there are targets left on the field, they will advance to find one.

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Helpline / Re: More Stupid Archer Behavior

« on: July 09, 2011, 07:03:49 PM »

Not a bug.

It's not "once the monsters break through the front lines", it's "once the monsters are engaged in close combat with the infantry".  The monsters broke through the front lines after the archers advanced.

Archers cannot shoot into melee more than 1 row away.

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This Forum / Re: Announcements discussable

« on: July 09, 2011, 03:57:53 PM »

Actually, I had to make it visible again, otherwise the integration also doesn't work. :-(

Tom, I still can't see the Announcements board on the forum.  I'd like to announce the recent change in rev. 5494, but I can't.

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Helpline / Re: Adventurer and character limit per island

« on: July 08, 2011, 02:31:57 PM »

Yes, it is a bug.  It's on my list.

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Development / Re: Adventurer Page Refresh

« on: July 07, 2011, 02:47:05 PM »

Known issue, related to some behind-the-scenes changes we're making.  The changes will improve things for the devs, but may cause some minor hiccups like this from time to time.

We will be working on solving these issues over the next little while.

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Development / Re: Retention Revisited

« on: July 05, 2011, 04:17:39 PM »

Some people have easy enough knights some people not enough some people too much I think this is because the number of required knights is too narrowly fixed, at just over 100% estate for every region in the realm. Marginal benefit of another knight drops too fast. There is small range of perfect number and not much room to move.

Tweaking the exact number is not the solution instead it is to make number of knights more elastic.

This is exactly correct, and is part of what the new estate system is intended to do.