Opinions Needed - Please Vote

[mo money]

Okay so previously I wrote that there will be free-to-claim pre-made territories for groups to claim or the option to purchase your own custom territory that you get to create and and customize.

As I was planning board ideas I thought that we might just scrap the idea of the free to claim premade territories and just let everyone make their own territory as long as they have a group and like 300-400 CP or something (which can be split by any/all members.) We'd provide a list of idea nuggets for territory ideas and the rest could be up to you, finding images, describing in as much or little detail as you want. all that stuff. You'll get one main board and 2 subboards then you can pay like an additional 100 CP to buy more sub-boards if you want more intricate/detailed/specific areas. As long as you stay within the general area description of the region there's lots of freedom.


This way we don't have an empty board sitting around waiting to be claimed and it might lessen the time it would take us staff to write up all the descriptions and find images and we could get the new plot brought in faster.


Creating a group is still, of course, free. I'm including the CP charge 'cause it's something to work for. And really 400 CP split even two ways is hella cheap even for new members.

if we go with the "custom only" idea, the only free-to-claim areas will be something we are calling 'shared space' territories which is a larger territory where 2-3 different groups inhabit the area peacefully but separately but could come together to protect their shared territory from bigger threats, etc.

Of course if you wanted to make a CUSTOM shared space territory that'd be okay too

Oh, gosh, guys, there's so many options

There's pros and cons either way but I like the freedom this gives you guys. Let me know what you guys think.

Thanks!

[Noxx]

I think custom only... like if you're gonna make a group together and claim a territory with them, I imagine you would rather save for the few hundred CP to get a unique territory meant for your group rather than settle for something that's premade? Idk I don't see them being utilized enough to start out with them; I might be wrong and we can hear from other people but I imagine the general feeling is excitement about custom territories.

["Quick" Taylor]

See, I'm all for the custom, but the issue with having only customs is it becomes harder to limit them. I mean, the shifters ARE in a dome, which means land is going to be limited and quite valuable. I think I like the idea of having pre written and limited (though I don't see why there can't be a large number) number of custom boards to make it feel more like they're shoved into this large area with a dome covering it, which limits the space for large groups/communities to form.

[Dionysus]

I feel like custom and pre-written would be great. With the pre-written ones I feel it will show a good example to newcomers how they're supposed to look and be done.

[Noxx]

I just wanted to add in response to sumdood that I don't think space and limits will be a problem. The dome is huge and small groups can't occupy the kind of space that Rings did. And I don't forsee there being THAT many new groups; Even if we get a good number of new people, hopefully people's characters will be tied up in groups with each other, or wandering. I think there's plenty of space for everyone! But I do think that maybe yeah, just a couple of pre-mades might be a good jumping off point for the communal spaces/ encouraging people to have some non-territorial groups as well.

[Silfrvarg]

I feel like maybe there should be some preprint ten ones, but not all that many, maybe more to show people how it's done, and sort of showcase what you can do with the new group territories?

Either that or just have a few groups lined up before the change design their territories as an almost spotlight thing? So still made my groups of members but that way when the changes go live there's some existing examples out there?

Either way I am super excited and have waaaay too many ideas.

[Evkav]

I'ma just bring my opinion to the table like the crazy Australia lady that I am. Jks jks it's all good stuff dw. Anywho, I voted ages ago but have been busy. But I reckon some premade ones would be good. I for one am lazy af and also suck at writing descriptions sometimes and I like to get some inspiration and stuffs. So it might be good to just have a few but also have the option for custom for when peeps are super inspired.

Yep I'll keep it short and sweet which is unusual for me I know. Ily y'all and all these ideas. I'm keen either way. But that's just my personal thoughts.

[Dionysus]

Maybe as a compromise so you're not writing so many pre-written boards that maybe in each area that has the option to have custom board to only have one pre-written board for those areas. From what I'm reading from other people is that how a custom board to claim is hard to imagine when people have never written one before. This way everybody wins.

I'm writing this on my phone close to 6:45am with no sleep so I hope what I'm saying makes sense.

[mo money]

Thank you all for your feedback! It's very helpful in gauging what would be the best option for everyone. :]

I've decided that we're going to be including both premade free-to-claim boards as well as the option for custom like originally planned. I'm not really going to worry about the issue of restricting how many territories there can be in a Region as I just really want people to have fun and be creative and not be too restricted. I feel over the 7+ years we've become kind of burdened with rules and I don't really wish to add more (e.g. I had ideas that in order to claim larger territories you had to have a certain group size, etc etc but it just gets too complicated.) Like Noxx said, the dome is huge. Huge, huge, huge.

I really liked Silfrvarg's idea but for now I think it'd just be easiest to do the premade boards and then once people see the examples they can get to making their own, as there's no real rush.

Thank you all again for your feedback! It is much needed and appreciated to help with the new board layouts.

Now that I have this decision in concrete we can move forward with our plans for development!! >]

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