DeletedUser
Guest
Okay, hear me out on this.
Admittedly looking at our maps, at 210k we're not huge in terms of villages. We are, in fact, 14k below W1, which is the smallest world that's closed to new players. We're certainly nowhere near W23's 300k+, which is somehow still open. Practically speaking, we've not even hit the point where anyone's gotten to the corner K's. Nonetheless I'm somewhat confused as to why any new player would want to start on this world in the first place. Not just that, but I'm not sure if it's fair letting them start here, full stop. Looking around the rim K's, I can't actually find one that doesn't have a 1mil+ player firmly embedded in it. Gods forbid you should be unlucky enough to start in somewhere like K5/6 too, right next to the 3mil mass that is Bilge Rat.
I'm sure someone's going to pick out the obvious argument - morale. Obviously if someone's started with their tiny little 200 point village, a big ole 1mil player isn't going to be able to touch them, right? Well, yes. But at the same time, no. By the time that little 200-point player hits, say, 40k, maybe if you've still got a player as small as 300k, they're going to start getting nobled. Maybe they get "lucky" - maybe the only players around are too big to worry about trying to noble anything off of player like that until they at least hit 200k or so. That's the trouble though. Being that small, none of the established tribes are going to recruit them and the inevitable conclusion is that no matter how long it eventually takes, that player is still 8-10 months behind every other player in the area and that is going to make the difference. It might take until the point where they hit a good couple of hundred thousand points (which would take a lot of time for themselves), but at the end of the day, all that's going to happen is sooner or later someone a lot larger who started a heck of a lot earlier is going to come along, clear all their villages and noble them.
Given that and given quite how large the gap is between existing players and any player who is to now start here, I have got to wonder why this world isn't closed to new players?
Admittedly looking at our maps, at 210k we're not huge in terms of villages. We are, in fact, 14k below W1, which is the smallest world that's closed to new players. We're certainly nowhere near W23's 300k+, which is somehow still open. Practically speaking, we've not even hit the point where anyone's gotten to the corner K's. Nonetheless I'm somewhat confused as to why any new player would want to start on this world in the first place. Not just that, but I'm not sure if it's fair letting them start here, full stop. Looking around the rim K's, I can't actually find one that doesn't have a 1mil+ player firmly embedded in it. Gods forbid you should be unlucky enough to start in somewhere like K5/6 too, right next to the 3mil mass that is Bilge Rat.
I'm sure someone's going to pick out the obvious argument - morale. Obviously if someone's started with their tiny little 200 point village, a big ole 1mil player isn't going to be able to touch them, right? Well, yes. But at the same time, no. By the time that little 200-point player hits, say, 40k, maybe if you've still got a player as small as 300k, they're going to start getting nobled. Maybe they get "lucky" - maybe the only players around are too big to worry about trying to noble anything off of player like that until they at least hit 200k or so. That's the trouble though. Being that small, none of the established tribes are going to recruit them and the inevitable conclusion is that no matter how long it eventually takes, that player is still 8-10 months behind every other player in the area and that is going to make the difference. It might take until the point where they hit a good couple of hundred thousand points (which would take a lot of time for themselves), but at the end of the day, all that's going to happen is sooner or later someone a lot larger who started a heck of a lot earlier is going to come along, clear all their villages and noble them.
Given that and given quite how large the gap is between existing players and any player who is to now start here, I have got to wonder why this world isn't closed to new players?
I liked the experiment, it was an interesting twist, should have em give us another one of those "wait wut?" worlds.