7.0 Annoucement!

[SeventhCircle 460]

1 hour ago, Hobbs_Burrows said:

Are you not concerned about the prevalence of grass biomes? There is barely any snow, barely any sand, forests are scarce. This current map was quite boring on release and I remember you writing about how it suffered from grassy plains syndrome. 

 

While from the photo it looks like a lot of green plains, Only one biome is actually a plain and even inside of it we add cliffs and ravines. Trust me we absolutely did not want a repeat on this front.

 

42 minutes ago, Jaeden said:

@SeventhCircle

 

I got a few questions!

 

On nation placement and auctions. Will we have all perspectives available for these plots? I.e: ground, air, close-up, map shots, etc. I wouldn't want to bid for a plot that ends up being very difficult to traverse or build on; especially the case when we have to build a majority of the capital in survival!

 

For freebuild, I'm a bit confused by this. I assume it's just a general area around Cloud Temple? It would be awesome if you could do an estimated area on the map for each of the rings.

 

Other than that, looks great! I'm excited. I'm somewhat sceptical about only being allocated 75 x 75 for the capital, but it is not only understandable but not too difficult to work with. However, I'm also concerned about the nation vassalisation clause which others have brought up. Though, you guys have done great with this from the looks of it - huge props to those working on it.

 

I might have some more feedback or questions later.

 

Yes, I plan to ensure every plot has a very large amount of angles and shots provided.

Each ring is about 750 in radius addition from CT. Fishy posted a very nice photo above that outlines it.

 

34 minutes ago, Stripez-Purple said:

Will it be on version 1.13?

 

Assuming the 1.13 Dev update continues most likely but things can happen.

 

26 minutes ago, SuperDuckyGamer said:

a 7.5k block square sounds pretty big, how much is Atlas?

 

Atlas is 8k, 7.0 is only slightly smaller but we radically have changed how nation placement will happen to combat the 15 minute walk times.

[NotEvilAtAll 10906]

Needs more non-grass biomes. There’s literally plains everywhere 

[Bravado 23]

Looking good so far, can't wait to set my feet into the snow!

 

As for the whole 'vassals and nations' discussion.

I don't believe that it's a thing that can be generalized, it should be done from a case to case basis. 

Haense is clearly nation status, they've got the playerbase to support it and the activity, Belvitz and some others are the same story.

 

But when it comes to minor vassals, I believe that it is fair to integrate them into their liege. Some groups will simply not have the playerbase and/or activity to support a nation status. From my POV nation status doesn't come down on being a vassal, overlord or anything the likes. But on playerbase, community, activity and RP.

[Hobbs_Burrows 497]

1 minute ago, SeventhCircle said:

 

While from the photo it looks like a lot of green plains, Only one biome is actually a plain and even inside of it we add cliffs and ravines. Trust me we absolutely did not want a repeat on this front.

 

I hope so, but from the map it still looks as though past mistakes have been made of pushing sand into one corner, snow into another corner, and just filling the rest with grass. 

 

Also, Halflings meet all 3 of the criteria required to take part in calling dibs on a piece of land. I know you most likely can't say now, but I'd love for the Halflings to get off to a good start after being given such a hard time for the past 3+ years

[ScreamingDingo 20568]

I can't wait for the map to end haphazardly and the exact same problems of every map to be at the forefront until 8.0 is released.

[Bravado 23]

1 hour ago, HortonHeardAWho said:

Kinda reminds me of Greece if you use your imagination.

 

[Suxals 529]

20 minutes ago, TankM1A2 said:

 

I understand that you're trying to make a point, but you just spewed a blatant lie. I can confidently say Carolustadt has been leading the server in terms of activity, as of recent. Less than a week ago we had 40 people in the city at an off hour doing various sorts of RP. So yes, we have RP outside of Court.

 

Whenever i have visited both cities i have always found more activity at Haense than Carolustadt... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

And the activity checks that the GMs broadcast usually show Haense in the top 3 of the active settlements while Carolustadt is far away in the ranking... but maybe that's subjective depending of the time.

[Inferno_Ougi 1454]

kilgrim painted it so its good 

that is all

[Man of Respect 5471]

making a new map is very difficult and a good step into success is by fixing the economy... lotc as it is for me on its current state is really boring without any other flavor to do if you don't take RP as a job or aim to be constantly acquiring power and magic strenghts.

 

being brutally honest? nexus would be able to fix the economy completely and give the 50% competent parcel of the players something to do while it doesn't interferes with roleplay in any way at all because of defender default, large nations are able to crush small nations without any chance of resistance for the small nation to compensate with their competitivity because the only thing that matters is your 100 mina /vote set and how many people you can get if you can't make yourself competent enough to outplay more people than your numbers

 

#bringbacknexus or #replacenexus

 

yes i don't give up

[_Elrith_ 4525]

22 minutes ago, GrimReaper98 said:

I can't wait for the map to end haphazardly and the exact same problems of every map to be at the forefront until 8.0 is released.

You should list out the problems, except players being bad.

[SombreroMan 111]

LC is good. Removing it will discourage many ppl from every actually finishing their cities. Saying that its removed cause immwrsion is ruined is retarded.

Plus freebuild is what killed this map's natiom activity and what made the whole map ugly and trash. So many people have went out of nations and started their own little freebuild with 5-15 in them and when u have over 20 of these u just ruin nations. This is activity nations could have and i get that places like belvitz and holm get a lot of activity but the cons that come with having freebuild outweigh the pros by a large amount plus wasnt it said that there wont be any freebuild at all?

[Lsuvsfar 255]

No but seriously, a 700-1400 block ring of nation capitals seems like a pretty small area. It'd be like jamming Fenn, Sutica, Warhawkes, plus any other nations outside that ring that you'll give nation status to, all inside of that current area with the rest of the capitals.

 

@SombreroMan Almost 1 year into the map and we're still hitting 200 players online at 1 time. I think we're doing fine as a server.

[Kilgrim 361]

3 minutes ago, SombreroMan said:

LC is good. Removing it will discourage many ppl from every actually finishing their cities. Saying that its removed cause immwrsion is ruined is retarded.

Plus freebuild is what killed this map's natiom activity and what made the whole map ugly and trash. So many people have went out of nations and started their own little freebuild with 5-15 in them and when u have over 20 of these u just ruin nations. This is activity nations could have and i get that places like belvitz and holm get a lot of activity but the cons that come with having freebuild outweigh the pros by a large amount plus wasnt it said that there wont be any freebuild at all?

LC wasn't removed because of immersion, it was removed because it's so easily abused with dupes and economy ruiners galore.

[Its_Just_Leap 399]

Now I don't wanna say to rush the map, because that'll make it worse, but god I hope we can get the hell off Atlas before the year ends. This has honestly been my least favorite map in all my time of playing on LotC, and I skipped over Vailor entirely because of how much I disliked it. It even topped that. From the screenshots we're given it atleast looks like its not as boring as Atlas, hopefully not as flat aswell.

 

Also please #RemoveFreebuild

[TankM1A2 840]

1 hour ago, Suxals said:

 

Whenever i have visited both cities i have always found more activity at Haense than Carolustadt... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

That's what anyone would say were they trying to defend their own nation. If you're going to make an argument, do it without throwing another settlement under the bus with an unsubstantiated claim. I've never seen you around Carolustadt before.

1 hour ago, Suxals said:

 

And the activity checks that the GMs broadcast usually show Haense in the top 3 of the active settlements while Carolustadt is far away in the ranking... but maybe that's subjective depending of the time.

 

And the random activity checks are an inherently flawed system. When they are conducted is up to the discretion of the GM doing it - whoever is. I don't know about you, but I haven't seen any broadcasts this past week. And this past week our activity has been soaring, since the city is actually completed and construction over.

 

Screenshots like this show how arbitrary the pulling of numbers is: