It wouldn't be too bad to add a small island to its right to connect southern portion to the northern portion of the map to balance things out. And maybe make Obsidian islands bigger and more useful than have some meaningless regions on the side.
I think most regions should be somewhat viable instead of having one side completely worthless. Why even put that in the map if they serve no purpose?
The lands around that volcano look very bad condition. With so few gold and food around volcano lands, I think its Economy probably need redress first before change to the lands.
There is at least precedent for expanding the Obsidian Islands.
There is indeed a precedent. I have looked back at EC history, there is a Great Eruption, which changed EC island and added some regions back then.
http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/East_Continent/Kalmar_Bayhttp://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Bad_TidingsIt wouldbe nice if they weren't totally useless.
Exactly my thought. Excuse my long thought.
My 1st character Ash and 2nd character MayI have 5 active characters including one at War Island. Started my first character noble Ash at Oritolon realm on Colonies island, I liked what I saw back then, thus started my second character noble May at Sirion realm on EC island. Back then I had less interest to play adventurer, but finally after seeing some nobles holding Unique Items in battle, I created my third character as adventurer(Brock at Fontan realm) who got promoted to become noble later on. In fact, my EC playing at that time was centered around my second and third character in 2 different realms fighting against each other, with both their realms at war. It was not easy to start an adventurer at a realm at war(Fontan), knowing your second character is at the opposite side(Sirion). Holding hope that both my 2 characters can fight against each other one day, my hope was dashed when my second character May got deported to Colonies before Brock rose up through adventurer ranks
I learnt a great deal about "
characters separation" back then, with my third character first introduction letter when he first arrived, with Fontan players being nice to my character. That was the beginning of my long EC playing life till today. I have been thinking that perhaps we the
older players should have some "places" to share our experience with the younger players nowadays; that would help with players retention problem a bit.
After my second character May got deported from EC to Colonies, my Colonies island experience had grow, somehow with lot of rebellions happening at Oritolon realm on Colonies at that time. My first rebellion participation, counter rebellion, fishing rebels underground and much more. As my first character grows and knowing more characters from other realms, interacting with them along the way, down the road I learnt a great deal about Steward, Judge, General. I have been feeling that Steward role, however small the role is, has been under promoted, most Region Lords tend to their regions on their own. Steward was the first place I learnt about region management, food management in particular when your city was starving and region lord was not around.
My 3rd character BrockMy third character Brock as adventurer, had its fair share of fun too. I learnt how to break Fontan nobles Unique Items by not able to repair their items in time, causing Brock to get beaten up and imprisoned many times in his own realm prison. Yes, it was fun interacting with Fontan nobles, they blamed my adventurer, aye, it was my fault not having items to repair, I still blamed the old Sages, they being devious and demanding
My third character Brock has exceeded my expectation, becoming a very own story in itself, growing away from my earlier planned "my second character May fighting battles against my third character Brock". He was the first Banker in my characters family line, the first Vice Marshal as well as Marshal and General later on. That long lines of responsibilities proved he has come a long way.
My 4th character OakLearning a great deal about adventurer during my third character Brock time, I started my fourth character as adventurer albeit with much failure on Atamara island. I did repair some items but that was it, I felt the fun I had during my third character Brock time, may have caused me to have higher expectation on what I to expect during my playing experience. Finally after growing tired of changing realms many times for my fourth character, I paused him.
My 5th character MistyLast but not least, learning about South Island being reopen as War Island for one more time, for which I have never experienced War Island in my whole BM playing time, I created my fifth character Misty on this island. To date, the playing experience is unlike any experience previously experienced before, I have grown to analyze things, even small details.
