Deciding on the Guilds game settings

[Kaz]

I'd personally prefer to have an old-skool Guilds game with only 1 kingdom each, but I suspect that initially that will not be a feasible option, and we'll be forced to do 2 like with Unity.

There are a lot of other settings that have yet to be determined.

Turns Per Hour: 3 or 4?
Max Turns: 125 or 150?
NPP: 80 or 150?
Guild Cap: 12, 16, 20 or None?
Load / Save: On or off? (note, we have a selection already for 150 turn NPP's but not for 80 turn NPP's)
NPC's: On or Off?
NPC Guild's: On or Off?
Kingdom Size: Old Skool Guilds (30k tithe), More like Valid (60k tithe)?
Prevent Downhits: On or Off? (note, kingdom vs kingdom, not guild vs guild)
Preserve BRT : On or Off? (less damage to quarries via sorc and war)
Bounty : Off, All Bounties or Specific Bounties Only? (bounty options include : land and/or turns and/or elan and/or cash. Note you get a percentage of land not all of it)

[Jokingjoe]

Turns: My preference is for tuns/max turns to guage nicely with encampments...so..I'd vote 3 / hour, max 150, giving full turns after 2 days rest. ( I like being able to play about the same time every day--yes, I know I'm getting old.)

NPP 150 if Load/Save is active, otherwise, I'm indifferent.

Guild Cap: None

I do like the Load/Save option, but for a single realm game, it's probably not needed.

NPCs: Ideally off, but if they are on, keep them low like they are in Dom.

NPC Guilds: Off

Kingdom Size: 30k should keep the game moving quicker and promote faster/more frequent war.

Prevent downhits: On--no one likes a someone downhitting outside guild war.

BRT: It's a nice tool to help rebuild faster--I like it.

[Gili]

Turns Per Hour: 3 or 4 Max Turns: 125 or 150?
NPP: 80 or 150?
Guild Cap: 12, 16, 20 or None?
Load / Save: On or off? (note, we have a selection already for 150 turn NPP's but not for 80 turn NPP's)
NPC's: On or Off?
NPC Guild's: On or Off?
Kingdom Size: Old Skool Guilds (30k tithe), More like Valid (60k tithe)?
Prevent Downhits: On or Off? (note, kingdom vs kingdom, not guild vs guild)
Preserve BRT : On or Off? (less damage to quarries via sorc and war)

Wasn't 100% sure about some of this...hard getting back into evernight mind set. Seems so long ago and all that. Anyway some opinions of mine, I'm not super strong for any of the below but thought i'd do a post nonetheless. Looking forward to some fun and hoping we get some old faces back

Turns As with above, I'm likely to play once a day. So as long as there isn't wastage its groovy...which any combination seems to be good.
NPP Enough starting turns that your initial set of turns puts you in your last turn of NPP. So day 2 = safety off.
Guild Cap I'm guessing this won't be a problem to begin with. Hopefully those playing will be more inclined to try and keep things balanced. Getting this fun should be priority first at least
Load / Save - Best feature of the game. Yes please.
NPCs some small ones
NPC Guild's no
Kingdom Size: dont mind
Prevent Downhits: not sure. is a difficult one. down hits are things that annoy people which provokes response(fun). being bullied isn't fun, but then you should get a guild and get revenge.
Preserve BRT : not sure

[Maverick]

Turns 4 per hour Max turns 150

NPP 150 (80 really does nothing and no one likes to get hit that quick)

Guild Cap None

Load/Save yes

NPC On

NPC Guilds On

Size 60k tithe

Downhits allow

Preserve brt off

[Kaz]

One other setting I forgot to add (will edit the first post for subsequent posters)

Bounty : Off, All Bounties or Specific Bounties Only (bounty options include : land and/or turns and/or elan and/or cash. Note you get a percentage of land not all of it)

Cash and Turns Off, Land and Elan On might be interesting

[Maverick]

Bounties

Cash: Yes

Land: Yes

Elan: Yes

Turns: No

Cash makes sense, its like stealing the treasury. Youd have to figure out the percentages for land/cash though. Otherwise war would be unnecessary.

[Kaz]

Youd have to figure out the percentages for land/cash though. Otherwise war would be unnecessary.

I wasn't planning on altering the way bounty works (other than to allow for some bounty options to be turned off, currently bounty means a choice from all 4).

It's in place in other games and working fine.

When you kill a kingdom, you can claim the bounty at any time, but you can only claim one of the bounty options.

Those options (in more detail) are :

Turns : all remaining on dead kingdom
Cash : all remaining on dead kingdom
Elan : all remaining on dead kingdom
Land : 33% of remaining land on dead kingdom, 20% of gained land is pre-built with either quarries (3 in 5 chance), temples (1 in 5 chance) or barracks (1 in 5 chance)

[Maverick]

Yeah my concern on the bounties of land is that unlike war, you can horde the bounty and thus use it at the most optimum time. 33% should work, I just wanted to be clear I wasnt suggesting 100% of the land.

[Tara]

Turns Per Hour: 3 or 4? = 4
Max Turns: 125 or 150? = 150
NPP: 80 or 150? = 150
Guild Cap: 12, 16, 20 or None? = for now, 12
Load / Save: On or off? Off, since I don't have one saved. ;p purely selfish vote there lol
NPC's: On or Off? - On
NPC Guild's: On or Off? - Off
Kingdom Size: Old Skool Guilds (30k tithe), More like Valid (60k tithe)? - 30k cap, for now.
Prevent Downhits: On or Off? (note, kingdom vs kingdom, not guild vs guild) - Off, never know when I need'a kill a scummer
Preserve BRT : On or Off? (less damage to quarries via sorc and war) - off, never know when I need'a sorc kill a bitch..I mean, ... ha ;p, seriously tho, no, off, show the damage of what gets damaged.
Bounty : Off, All Bounties or Specific Bounties Only? (bounty options include : land and/or turns and/or elan and/or cash. Note you get a percentage of land not all of it) - eh, haven't used 'em one way or another, so the bounty thing I can play without, or play within.

[Kaz]

Tara, assuming we go with the 150 turns NPP, then there are plenty of public saves you can pick from

[Maverick]

Lets also not be shortsighted. Once you build your 150, you can then use it when you die and in the next game. And if Kaz is using the ones that are already saved a few of them are probably better than what you could do anyway.



(And can we move this save draft button. What the heck its where submit used to be)

[Jokingjoe]

I like the bounty system--and I would be amenable to the disabling of the turn bounty, as turns are perhaps the most priceless commodity in the game. Having a large number of nice turn bounties can be very overpowering.