02-03-2020, 12:41 AM
(02-02-2020, 02:09 AM)DreamWeaver Wrote: Some game advice to the GM to stop abuse that we have seen in the past:
Ok with this rebut reduce all the cities in size, defenses, and city buildings. Wipe away almost all factional Offices and Temple and make most cities Independent. Only have a small number of cities declared for ever faction scattered around the Midgard content. Next don't have anyone with huge resources to be handed out to players. Also have NO Factional regiments at game start. Just have the resources that are at hand and the factional clans. It will be years before a starting clan of 200 retainers can take on anything, let alone a city. Part of the problem in the past, factional resources and/or factional regiments were handed out to players like there was no tomorrow. It didn't matter what rank someone was, it was handed out like water to a thirsty man. I say to the GM, make players earn factional aid. Make the player's roleplay their clan's faction's goals and keep them in-check and on target. A lot of the abuse of the past was because the GM's didn't make people play the way they should play within the factions they were playing. Make them do the right thing.
I do want to reduce the game start to about the minimum that we can get away with and make everyone build back up from very little.
I also worry about factional resources, and perhaps the best way to deal with that is to just not provide factions with as much to begin with. If there's less available, then there should be less misuse of what there is. We could even set a minimum rank limit that was needed before you're eligible for factional help, if we need to.
Can you think of any way we can restrict gathering influence (in general) to only those clans that are playing according to their factional goals? It would be great if we could come up with some way to prevent abuse that way, but I certainly don't have the GM time to review every case so it would have to be something relatively automate-able.