Ark

"VOTE FOR FRUIT-FACE!" Lambert could be heard screaming in the streets.

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Hey, welcome to LotC! I suggest checking out the tutorial island or doing /creq "I need a monk.", that way a community team player can come and help show you the ropes on the server.

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Peasants Union of Petra [PUP] "We got that dog in us." - Pavel In order to ensure better treatment of the Peasants of Petra, Barrett has created a more perfect union to stand up for peasant rights in the Commonwealth. To prevent the wanton abuse of the working class from the gentry and nobility he wishes to organize the peasant’s of the realm into a political union to give them better collective bargaining. Since the first man declared himself a king, peasant blood has been spilled to form kingdoms, maintain wealth and continue the patriarchal system that has led to domination of the Commonfolk. With very little education, Barrett has decided to take a stand and has created the Peasant Union of Petra, or PUP. GOALS OF THE PUP: Have a PUP representative in every level of Government. Lower taxes for members of PUP. Special PUP only events. Prevention of Peasants and PUP members from the patriarchal & tyrannical systematic abuse levied by the Gentry & Nobility. Roles: President: Barrett Executive Keeper of the Books: Rhosyn Open Roles! Meet Barrett for ideas.

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This is incredible! Thank you for putting this together.

Karl Barbanov smiles.

I've never thought about that, but that definitely makes sense. I agree, we just make it as easy as possible for people to RP. It takes a lot of work to create RP on the server.

I appreciate your honesty. If a place decides to be in the middle of nowhere, they will still get less natural foot traffic than a place that's right next to one of the hubs. However, you don't always have the decision of where you are going to settle. Sometimes you're given land under someone for a village or town, fast travels create a slight equalizer, where I still have to put in more work to get people to want to come into my fast travel but a "hey it will take you 5 minutes to get here" instead of "20-30 minutes." Plus it reduces the super painful feeling of traveling for 20 minutes to find out a place doesn't have anyone to RP with. (Lots of people log off after this). We have fast travels right now and i've dealt with bandit RP twice in the last two days. Bandits don't create much RP on the server, settlements by and far are the great majority of the server's activity. We should be promoting what works.

I do not see how this is an easier solution at all lol. Plus it still doesn't address the issue of places that are in the middle of nowhere, where even a horse ride may take upwards of 20-25 minutes. I think it's a valuable option, but that, if a faction doesn't believe that it needs a fast travel, not like they're forced to have one.

Lots of new players do not have access to horses, makes it a pain for new players to get to your settlement in the first place.

Hi, i'm Ark. I really like making RP settlements on lotc. The creative freedom to build a community and part of the world has always interested me and with my ample experience in doing so I would like to share my thoughts on a somewhat controversial (that really shouldn't be), topic. Where does most of the activity on LotC come from? By far, it is from player run settlements. Fast travels are a powerful tool to equalize the distance travelled over the map. One of the greatest struggles any community, but especially new ones, is to generate traffic to their settlement. When fast travels are not available on the map, there are certain factions whose proximity to spawn, or in this map the different hubs, are granted an insane advantage in generating roleplay into their faction. If fast travels are removed, or made less accessible, you have competent player bases and leadership who are suffocated due to the location of their settlement. I think the current system could use some improvements (I would generally halve the speed on all the fast travels, because sitting on Balian's camel for 3 minutes isn't really doing anything for creating roleplay on the server.) I think that the fast travels with a slight wait time is still a good system and I do think that some land should be more valuable than others, because of the interesting dynamic that makes on the server but I do think that more accessibility to fast travels(outside of the fast travel hubs at spawn) is generally a good thing for the server. As someone whose lead many settlements, the amount of player hours required is not insignificant to generate interest in your settlement. We should make it easier for people to create roleplay on the server, not more difficult. What are your thoughts?