Faction Wars

[Prometheus]

Just thought I'd start a discussion on the possibility of starting 'Faction Wars' whereby Factions who are located as neighbours on the World Map can declare war on each other and eventually destroy or conquer and control other peoples hard-worked towns!

The only problem is, maybe the town builders don't want their hard work and money destroyed... I dunno.

Here's the old regulations I drew up but disgarded:

Aug 2, 2010 16:09:32 GMT Prometheus said:

Player Town War Guidelines

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Factions who control towns can declare war against their neighbours and destroy or capture towns controlled by other factions!

• Factions may only attack those towns in geographical proximity to towns they already control.
  
  
• Any players who wish to fight for a particular town must be citizens of that town and have the 'of <town name>' (e.g. Prometheus 'of Minoc') as part of their name.
  • Each player who participates must register themselves as fighting for one particular faction with a staff member and the war will last for up to 2 weeks.
    
    
  • Fighters for both factions must collect the heads of their opponents by skinning bodies after they die.
    
    
  • After the regulation 2 weeks of fighting a staff member will count up all the heads from either side. Whoever has the most heads will win.
  
  
• If the attacker wins the war, they can choose to either take 2 amenities (e.g. Guarded Protection, NPCs), that the loser town owns, for themselves. Take a negotiated sum of money from the loser town (negotiated by the leaders of each faction). Or the attacking town may choose to conquer and absorb the town into its faction's assets or destroy the losing town entirely.
  
  
• If the defending town wins the war, they can choose to take up to 4 amenities from any town of the faction who attacked them.
  
  
• A list of participating players in each war will be kept by Staff Members. A player must only fight one war at a time and must therefore only be a citizen of one city for each 2 week period. If a player fights for 2 towns within the same period they will be excluded from both and the war called a draw.

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[lopa]

I think that with the amount of hard work put into these towns, it would be a shame to be able to destroy or take them over. Ofcouse the winning faction should get some sort of prize, otherwise it should be possible to make a faction that is neutral, not beeing able to attack it nor beeing able to attack from it.
Although this might ruin the original idea a bit, but it will be the matter of weeks before some guys make Chaos and Order factions that will be at war all the time! (maybe even make Chaos players perma red).
Or maybe even a better idea, the possibility for a faction to join either Chaos or Order.. Like a way to join the endless fight :-)

Anywho, that was just my thoughts on this subject :-)

[Prometheus]

Yeah I hear what you're saying about all the effort that gets put into building towns and it's something I've thought about a lot. I did also think maybe it would be a better idea to only give rewards for Faction Wars also, and not take anything away from the losers. And maybe declaring yourself neutral would be an option also.

But then again it means more players interacting etc. And also it introduces real-world bastardness into the game, because even nowadays the bigger countries bully the smaller ones (USA->Iraq) and kill millions of people without a care (well, the governments don't anyway).

I dunno, it's a tough call.

[lakelui]

i think faction wars are definately a good idea but only on the condition of a neutral mode. whats the point of startin up new cities if the most powerful cities are just going to destroy it? it will take no effort on the large cities to keep destroying smaller cities and in exchange they become even more powerful so they can continue the cycle. if neutral mode can be exploited then make it so that the option to become neutral or not has a large cooldown period until u can use it again.

[Prometheus]

Nov 8, 2010 11:03:35 GMT lakelui said:

i think faction wars are definately a good idea but only on the condition of a neutral mode. whats the point of startin up new cities if the most powerful cities are just going to destroy it? it will take no effort on the large cities to keep destroying smaller cities and in exchange they become even more powerful so they can continue the cycle. if neutral mode can be exploited then make it so that the option to become neutral or not has a large cooldown period until u can use it again.

That's a good point that I've been thinking on also.

Maybe for a high price a player town can make itself immune from attack? $1mil gold a month or something...

I can definitely understand wanting to be neutral, but I balance that with actually wanting to see the best Factions rule others.

[wyndor]

ooo an immunity tax

[payne]

Like 1 mill gold a month is enough ?

[mcfly]

Why can't we just have a point system that is tallied on the site. You wage war on a town and if you win you get points, you lose-you lose points, you kill a commander of the town you get more points, you hold the sigil of that town for X you get more points.
No one really loses anything except that your town may be regarded as trash-lower point towns would yield little to no points gained.
End of a period a town is crowned leader and is giving some awesome static water fountain for their town or something-static items won could be like guitines or something of that nature. And if you lose these items can be taken from the town.
As for scripting I have no idea about anything of that nature except the system would be sort of like factions on runuo shards with MAJOR tweaks