02-17-2020, 04:56 AM
(02-17-2020, 04:14 AM)DreamWeaver Wrote: Davin I hear what your saying but think of it this way, in the real world when you start a new job skill people are almost always given a signing bonus. Why do companies do that? Well a lot of times it to help the new employee get appropriate clothing for the job or other matters to get them ready to start the job. Well Clans in Midgard are the Skill assets that Factions wish to have join their teams. They give the Signing Bonus to give the clan a additional step up to buy more appropriate weapons types, horses, uniforms, food stuffs, and resources to do things like building things to make more Awards. It cost crowns in game to Train, Recruit retainers, and buy building materials to build stuff. Thus it takes money to make money. The signing bonus I came up with was a simple 100 Retainers, 5,000 Crowns, 1,000 Influence and is more than enough to add to the normal startup clan funs to get the clan along to begin life in any faction. Oh the Crowns might actually need to be higher like 10,000 Crowns, but it all depends on the costs of items on your markets too. I am just basing on what worked in the past in this game.
If you need more resources to have fun when you start playing, then let's just give everyone those resources in the first place. Why make them sign up first before they can get them?
I don't like your real-world comparison much either. I've never had a job that had a signing bonus, and I'm a skilled person in a skilled industry. If the signing bonuses were the same everywhere, and everyone got one as soon as they got a job (from at least McDonald's on up), then what's the point of having them?