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Re: Upcoming Economy Rework and Goals
Yeah sure - the update is I'm currently putting together the proposal/plan on the changes we want to make. This will be presented to other admin first for their input and then brought to the playerbase at large.
Forewarning - I do think there there will be some things that people don't necessarily like, but I'm hoping the trade-offs will be worthwhile. We're trying our best to create a system that will allow players to be as involved/not involved as they want, but there will be choices to be made.
Forewarning - I do think there there will be some things that people don't necessarily like, but I'm hoping the trade-offs will be worthwhile. We're trying our best to create a system that will allow players to be as involved/not involved as they want, but there will be choices to be made.
Orael
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Re: Upcoming Economy Rework and Goals
Here's an idea.
Remove the Trade Ministry. Remove the possibility of selling comms to orgs. Remove the "stock" of comms that each org owns.
Every org obviously sells every comm for a specific price. When a village tithes comms, instead of the village tithing "100 Steel", it simply tithes Steel, and that org's steel prices drop slightly, dropping more based on how much that village's comm quest for that comm has been performed. If, say Serenwilde almost always controls Estelbar but not a mining village, then over time, they're going to get cheaper and cheaper vegetables/wood/fruit/grain but their metal prices may be a little higher. Not exorbitantly higher, mind you, but enough where it's obvious.
Allow org councils to institute comm policy trades with other orgs. Each time this is done (once per weave), it slightly raises the prices of a chosen comm in the first, but reduces it in the second. Serenwilde wants to trade fruit, wood, and grain to Magnagora for cheaper iron and gems? Maybe Hallifax is in bad need of gems because Gaudiguch keeps stealing Talthos, so they institute a trade policy with Celest in exchange for cheaper steel.
Remove the Trade Ministry. Remove the possibility of selling comms to orgs. Remove the "stock" of comms that each org owns.
Every org obviously sells every comm for a specific price. When a village tithes comms, instead of the village tithing "100 Steel", it simply tithes Steel, and that org's steel prices drop slightly, dropping more based on how much that village's comm quest for that comm has been performed. If, say Serenwilde almost always controls Estelbar but not a mining village, then over time, they're going to get cheaper and cheaper vegetables/wood/fruit/grain but their metal prices may be a little higher. Not exorbitantly higher, mind you, but enough where it's obvious.
Allow org councils to institute comm policy trades with other orgs. Each time this is done (once per weave), it slightly raises the prices of a chosen comm in the first, but reduces it in the second. Serenwilde wants to trade fruit, wood, and grain to Magnagora for cheaper iron and gems? Maybe Hallifax is in bad need of gems because Gaudiguch keeps stealing Talthos, so they institute a trade policy with Celest in exchange for cheaper steel.
Announce Post #3131: Major Balance Changes
Hello,
We have heard your concerns regarding the uneven playing field created by vast diversity and flavour of our current combat-related skills. While we have briefly considered your initial proposal to mirror skills across archetypes, we have decided to go a step further and truly standardise how combat is carried out in Lusternia. It was more work, and we had mortal and immortal coders work around the clock on this, but we managed to create a fair framework for combat by deleting all class skills.
We realise this is a huge change that will require a lot of adjustment. To ease you all through this adjustment, we will be randomly firing off timequakes whenever somebody remembers to do so that you may practice your newfound, extremely balanced skills.
For those unfamiliar with Lusternia combat without the massive assistance of these skillsets, we would like to introduce to you your new weapons: punch, kick, and swing. The latter of these will require purchasing a weapon, which you may do at Trader Bob (TELEPORT BOB). We are currently looking into a more magical solution at this time.
Thank you,
The Lusternia Team.
We have heard your concerns regarding the uneven playing field created by vast diversity and flavour of our current combat-related skills. While we have briefly considered your initial proposal to mirror skills across archetypes, we have decided to go a step further and truly standardise how combat is carried out in Lusternia. It was more work, and we had mortal and immortal coders work around the clock on this, but we managed to create a fair framework for combat by deleting all class skills.
We realise this is a huge change that will require a lot of adjustment. To ease you all through this adjustment, we will be randomly firing off timequakes whenever somebody remembers to do so that you may practice your newfound, extremely balanced skills.
For those unfamiliar with Lusternia combat without the massive assistance of these skillsets, we would like to introduce to you your new weapons: punch, kick, and swing. The latter of these will require purchasing a weapon, which you may do at Trader Bob (TELEPORT BOB). We are currently looking into a more magical solution at this time.
Thank you,
The Lusternia Team.
Re: Tweets VIII: Knocks Me Off My Tweet
lilli: prays 1-3 times a weave
Afollia: okay your next task is to stop praying
lilli:
Afollia: okay your next task is to stop praying
lilli:
Re: 1001 things to do in Lusternia before you rage quit
215: Attend a raid attempt on Prime Hallifax and promptly get lost for half an hour before finally giving up and ascending out in frustration.
216: Being so drunk that you raid the wrong organization. Twice. >.>
216: Being so drunk that you raid the wrong organization. Twice. >.>
Alarin
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Re: Truebie/Newbie Retention
It is a very cool concept! But it's not one that I would ever enable or encourage enabling; it seems a very niche style of play that I don't think would fit in well with how we set up our guilds. If the other two guilds are capable of being a good option for anyone not interested in that style, though, then why not? As long as it is made very clear in the collegium documentation (and help files) ahead of time that's what the newbie is getting themselves into, and they feel like the other options are viable if they don't like that style, should be doable.
Xenthos
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Re: Truebie/Newbie Retention
Sure, but unless there's going to be a push in the other direction and nix ooc stuff in-game it seems better to aim to make them work in the healthiest way they can and for those who don't want to participate they can just... turn them off just like they can not join the clans right now.Everiine said:Saran said:One thing that's come up recently in is the impotance of certain clans and getting people into them. Maybe a basic set of ooc resources that are built into orgs could help.
For example:
COT/COHELP - Or some other variation, which is just a clearly marked OOC thing. Like the aether could be like...
[OOC](Serenwilde): X says "Blah"Eww, no. I don't need the toxicity of OOC clans and Discord servers turned into official in-game channels (I consider the OOC clans unofficial OOC channels). It's hard enough to get people to actually communicate and RP using the IG channels we have instead of using external OOC communication.
There doesn't seem like there'd be much functional difference with serenade, for example, except that people can be unintentionally not included in it.
Saran
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Re: Truebie/Newbie Retention
On the topic of newbie retention, one thing which I've often wondered about is "secret guilds." I'm not sure if any other guild besides Society even has this enabled. For those who don't know what it does, it hides any members who are online (except possibly leadership positions?) and who is talking on gt (again I think leadership positions might be an exception). It's a cool RP concept, but I do wonder about what effect that has on newbies joining the guild.
Uzriel
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