What You Think Of This Multi?

Blahblah

Strider if you catch a dwarf running schools, they're insane. The cost for each wizard is 500 gold. The upkeep for the wizard, it's insane once you start trying to run wizards.

Lord Thane

Strider yeah I'm tired of wasting time on multis - building tools, investigating, emails. This round has probably been a good 15-20 hours wasted just on multis.

If not fully disabling it in lieu of the market, then I think crippling it to extremely low limits and only 1 send per day would be important. It's such a stupid waste of time.

trupheus

Lord Thane

Eliminating the ability to send aid isn’t a viable solution—it’s a fundamental mechanic of the game. The option to support a province mate or ally during a critical moment is essential. It also facilitates bartering and spell trading, which would become impractical without aid transfers.

Even the kingdoms I targeted with Earthquake (EQ) relied on outside assistance to begin rebuilding. While that situation may now be resolved, there are still cases where a province mate commits fully to an attack, only to discover it was a misread—and they’re left struggling to feed their population. In those situations, timely aid is crucial to avoid collapse.

Yes, resource transfers are clearly a primary tool for multis to exploit—but they also serve legitimate, strategic, and cooperative purposes that shouldn’t be dismissed.

Nolio

Strider While I like parts of that, it also hurts casters who sell spells. No more casting on others for a price, no more Elves who earn their gold by selling MPs. A large chunk of the social part of the game would be ripped away, and to me that feels bad. I know I don't make wizards, so I pay for it all. And I pay well too. So whoever my caster's are are compensated for it.

I don't think sending aid or the market should be removed

Lord Thane

trupheus if sending aid is going to continue, then we're going to have to do something else to help police it. I did consider creating an Aid Ledger like the market - let Thardferrians police themselves 🤔

Strider

trupheus I think a good compromise is to give elves a racial spell that allows them to create gold like original I2G.

Nolio

Lord Thane As much as that sounds like a solution, I'm not a fan of that at all. Now there's no more scheming and strategizing by paying and trading with so called "enemies"

Everyone could see who's helping everyone. That sounds bad to me

No I don't want multis who exist to feed others, but I also want there to be scheming, plotting, strategizing, betraying, and the fantastical elements that make this game what it is. There has to be a better solution

Blahblah

Nolio i'd like to see them. Get rid of sending aid outside of your own province. They forced people to use the market to purchase it. Goods that are needed beyond what your own problems can provide. Maybe there should be a daily limit. How much a did you receive of each type? That could work and have it, based on. I'm lynn increments of one hundred.

Enphetamy

Nolio agreed. There's much value in the sending aid, and not all of it is economical. Personally for me, I dont think I'd be half as interested in this game if the only available interaction with other players was strictly offensive. It takes out so much of the community/bretheren/one for all and all for oneness that I think is fundamental to this game. Id suffer multis before losing the aid function.

Strider

Enphetamy what about inner province aid only?

Lord Thane

I think multiple of these ideas would be good to implement. Something like inter-province aid unlimited, aid outside the province heavily limited (like 500 wood/iron, 10k good, 10k food, 1 aid per day).

Or, maybe just completely disabled outside of provinces. People have raised concern about there being less advantages to being in a province together, so this would further help make provinces stronger, encourage more teamwork play.

Strider

Lord Thane

When you get into game mode options a fully self sustaining round would be awesome. No market, no aid, no outside spells except for offensive spells. For anyone who thinks that takes away from elf they've obviously missed out on the satisfaction of casting famine and freeze on a kingdom who full sent on a KD with their army away.

trupheus

Strider

You’ve sent me resources for TSs and other spells multiple times. With this idea, that is dead.

Lord Thane

Strider that'd be fun! You just know some assholes would still make multis to soften up their enemies before they attack though lol

Strider

trupheus what if elves are the only race that can receive aid outside of province and only after they have casted. Kind of like a retal right? Maybe cap the amount that can be sent at a % of the income that the spell creates.

If aid is an option, buying spells is great. Im just floating ideas that might solve other issues.

Strider

Lord Thane another option is KYC verification to register.

Couple that with a paid prov vs prov tourney mode that prov that wins the round splits the profit with the site.

Check my comment to Trupheus. Province aid only, except for elves who can issue "send aid" retals with positive spells. Allows casters to sell spells. Cap aid at a % of income the spell produces or multiplier of target kingdoms land.

One more buff for elves that I think they still need but not OP.

Nolio

I love the thought of intraprovincial trading, it sounds good but has a major flaw. It limits casters. If I'm in a province of Gnomes, which I have been many times, we don't have a caster. So we pay for that outside of our province. I don't want to get rid of that kind of comradery.

To paraphrase @Enphetamy, I would rather put up with multis than to cut out this social aspect of the game.

Lord Thane

Nolio I think if we put it up to a poll most users would probably rather have no aid than play against multis. That's pretty much the options, because spending 10 hours per month every month investigating multis is untenable.

I think inner-province aid limiting is a go. And then we will have to figure out a new way of expanding features for casters to continue selling spells. Maybe we can add more spells to the MP list which would then make MP more valuable. Obviously don't just want to make elves MP Whores®, so we'll need to collectively think of some creative way we can get them casting selling ability that's not easily abusable by multis. My first idea was making a contract system in the market where the market would act as an escrow - which is functionally just Send Aid with extra steps and public ledgering, so idk if that's a very good solution.

FriendsInSpace

Nolio Make intra-province trade free but inter-province trade subject to a hefty tax, those resources from the market have to come from somewhere ya know.

FriendsInSpace

Lord Thane Making elves just MP whores doesnt just make it boring for caster elves, it actually removes a social element of the game, because the MP just becomes anonymously sent resources. Whereas direct casting, well, who wants to hit their caster?

Vesuvan

Lord Thane Why not make spells directly tradable on the market? I want a famine cast on someone so I reach out to a caster and come up with an agreed upon target and price, then I post the “buy” on the market with an “if/then” clause which is hidden to the public…basically the caster accepts the contract, if they cast then the buy goes through?

Lord Thane

As another added benefit of limiting aid to inner-province, it also helps reduce castle passing alliances, since they will be encouraged to stay in the same province with each other to have aid available. So this measure will directly help weaken the huge alliances and increase the bond of small provincial based alliances.

Lord Thane

FriendsInSpace yeah, that's why we need a creative idea to make it fun and sociable for them. Contracts/escrow in the market would work for that aspect, I think it just needs a little more to be discouraged as the next avenue of abuse by multis.

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