VonAulus 2076 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2020 8.0: Transfer Our approach to the transition to the next map is going to be different than previous maps, and is contingent on the goal of creating a fantasy environment that is more cohesive and sound on a narrative level, while still incentivizing player mechanics and community building. The culmination of this thought comes down to a few policies that will be outlined below. We know map transitions are some of the most speculated topics in our community so we want to be as transparent as we can be. Selection Requirements We will be offering prebuilding to roleplay communities that already have nation status on this map and meet the below criteria. To maintain LotC’s intrinsic themes - the largest racial nation of each core race will be given a pre-build region de facto. This would be Helena, Aegrothond, Krugmar, and Urguan. The next five largest groups, regardless of racial background, by activity data over the last 5 months that follow will automatically get pre-built spots for the next map. This would be: Haelunor, Sutica, Druids, Haense, Morsgrad. Helena – 25.21% Aegrothond – 9.73% Urguan – 4.47% Krugmar – 3.34% Haense – 8.76% Sutica – 7.33% Haelunor – 6.23% Morsgrad – 4.95% Druids – 4.33% No other group currently sits above 3%, the normal Nation Activity baseline. For transparency sake, this model maintains the same list of nations between the ranges of five months, four months, three months, two months, and one month. So there are no outline weeks or months in activity that are affecting this decision. To compensate for this accordingly, we intend to allow nations multiple tiles and far more control of the map to grant to player bases and engage in conflict and diplomacy. There will not be the normal tile lock from this map and nations will have much more freedom with their land to expand and take in new groups and players. We hope by taking the land management out of staff’s hands, we can shift land management towards dynamic roleplay. Nation Spot Selection The nation spot selection is going to involve a series of steps that will require communication from both Nation Leaders and World Team. We will send out a survey to those groups selected for prebuild asking a few basic questions regarding what sort of terrain, climate, and aesthetic a nation would desire. World Team is going to provide a few options to talk over with the Nation Leader and they will rank their top picks. World Team will place the Nations based on their ranked picks around the central themes of the map to ensure a more sensible fantasy world. We hope to have Nation Spots picked out over the next week or so from this post going up. The areas handed over to the players will not be box plots but will be demarcated by natural geographic region. They will have full control of their starting tiles and the terrain will be delivered to them to work on in their own build servers. Your build will need to work with the terrain and not involve significant edits to the terrain to add combat advantages. We hope by entrusting the players with more area, builds will form to the terrain more naturally. We will be checking in with the Nation Leaders on their build progress and reserve the right to request edits if we notice an unnatural and unfair deviation to the existing terrain. Non-Prebuild There will be a system in place before and at map launch to cater to the rest of the player base not included in the nation pre-build. There will be more details about that in a future post to review the status of settlements and lairs. Do not fear, we have not forgotten about you, and you’ll hear from us in our next development diary. 83 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikAzog 3313 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Wow, Amazing work as always Grool. I cannot wait to see this progress further! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScreamingDingo 16799 Share Posted July 14, 2020 so aegro will become the new malinor because snelves/welves and delves don’t have a place based 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anore 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Nice. Excited for the Process™ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GgDionne 42 Share Posted July 14, 2020 So excited! Thanks to all the people who volunteer their time to make this possible 😄 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC_BreadStick 203 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I am high key and low key ready for this. PUMPED for the new map Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MunaZaldrizoti 5674 Share Posted July 14, 2020 #SaveKaedrin 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhased 3587 Share Posted July 14, 2020 13 minutes ago, ScreamingDingo said: so aegro will become the new malinor because snelves/welves and delves don’t have a place based A breeze rolls through....... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princedom Of Elvenesse 353 Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) Only giving one nation slot for the elves is a really bad take, and we say this as the representative of the nation who’s getting the spot. RPly it makes very little sense for the dark elves, high elves and snow elves to magically want to live with the Wood Elves & Almenodrim all of a sudden, and there are unresolved tensions in RP that would make things very chaotic. We may all have pointed ears & have the same racial curse but in function, the Elves have been 4 different races for years, with incredibly different cultures & political leanings. Furthermore our architecture styles are so massively different: How will we incorporate high elf silver towers, wood elf primal forests, dark elf fungus caves and a snow elven ARCTIC TUNDRA in tile? By biology/worldbuilding alone it already makes no sense. While I think it is possible for the elves to be united again by some sort of political confederation some day, forcing us all into one city OOCly is a very bad look and I hope the admins reconsider. EDIT: another issue I thought of after writing this post: If nations who are getting tiles are expected to maintain their current activity to KEEP their tile going into the next map, then our leaders will be pressured to work overtime and burn themselves out. It is very easy for people to become too obsessed with LOTC and turn their mineman nation into their full time job. Anyone who has ever nation led can attest to this. Edit again: I’ve been mildly misinformed, since the high elves are getting their own place. That’s on me I didn’t read the post right. The rest kinda still stands though Edited July 14, 2020 by SiramenorGlade 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplySeo 5184 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Neat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anore 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2020 4 minutes ago, SiramenorGlade said: Only giving one nation slot for the elves is a really bad take, and we say this as the representative of the nation who’s getting the spot. RPly it makes very little sense for the dark elves, high elves and snow elves to magically want to live with the Wood Elves & Almenodrim all of a sudden, and there are unresolved tensions in RP that would make things very chaotic. We may all have pointed ears & have the same racial curse but in function, the Elves have been 4 different races for years, with incredibly different cultures & political leanings. Furthermore our architecture styles are so massively different: How will we incorporate high elf silver towers, wood elf primal forests, dark elf fungus caves and a snow elven ARCTIC TUNDRA in tile? By biology/worldbuilding alone it already makes no sense. While I think it is possible for the elves to be united again by some sort of political confederation some day, forcing us all into one city OOCly is a very bad look and I hope the admins reconsider. Well, there are two primary Elven groups = Aegrothond and the Highelves. Plus Druids are primarily made up of Elves. In addition to that, more groups will have the ability to get land, it just will not be part of the prebuild proncess. As well as with more land being given to the prebuild nations, they will have to ability to bring other groups along with them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasdi 658 Share Posted July 14, 2020 #SaveKaedrin 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wyrvun 1262 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I am not excited for this map change. I hope Talons Grotto somehow makes it through. Also, should the elves all be put under Aegrothond, it’s going to be a ******* civil war man. I’m telling you there will be chaos and people are going to hate the staff team for it. Trying to OOCly force a new Malinor isn’t going to work. You’re driving a player base into a less then optimal situation here. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princedom Of Elvenesse 353 Share Posted July 14, 2020 1 minute ago, VonAulus said: touche thank you for your reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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