Mini round format vs normal

Strider

Just a few days into normal round and I already miss the mini round (minus the wacky bonus items that nullified balancing)

It was super fun having an even playing field and coordinating with players that otherwise id never have played with.

The game felt bigger, much closer to what it felt like in the early days. I was a big advocate for the 1v1 world war/team death match style, but wondering what others thoughts are?

The only downfall is being on opposite teams as some of your closest thard friends, which isnt necessarily a bad thing, but something to consider for next mini round (if that happens).

Some ideas for next mini round

2 or 3 members per province
provinces are balanced into even and odd numbers rather than individual players. (Instead of L1 v L2, its L2,4,6,8 etc v L1,3,5,7)
-rebalancing every 1-2 weeks based on total province strength of your team. Prov mates always stick together through balancing but you might switch from odd team to even team or vice versa.
-30 minute tics
-TP is instant, but only enough to complete 60-70% of total tech tree
-Start with 10 castles and 100 land with substantial resources to start game with optimal build strat and techs out the gate.
-Military training, armory and buildings are instant during initial protection, but tics dont actually start until initial protection is over. Use the abundance of resources wisely while in initial protection to come out the gate prepared.
-no game breaking bonus items that allow complete and utter dismembership of a player.

trupheus

No racial bonuses was a big negative for everyone but human. It was also unfortunate that casters were sabotaging their own prov.

It is all of the massive alliance formers that then complain about massive alliances that cause this every round.

Before IP even ended I caught wind of 15+ player alliances. I’m sure NAP counts are even larger than that. Seriously?

Get rid of provinces all together. Groups are obviously getting around the no attacking in your own prov rule that was put in place. Just watching the KHOF it’s easy to see.

Two provs was certainly interesting but ultimately it requires too many people to get along and play together that probably never will.

The best part of the mini round was the double speed. While I don’t want 30 minute ticks, I do want double production and training with doubled unit upkeep.

Oh and yes speed up TP but put a cap at like 70% TP for all techs and have a gold sink to respec TP with a 1 week cooldown

Strider

trupheus agree that there should be racial options which is why I suggested 2-3 person provs instead of 2.

Thardferr will always be big alliance vs bigger alliance. Most just 'nap' out of convenience so they can switch things up when/if it behooves them.

Blocking offensive spells inside provinces/sodes woukd be a big improvement.

Strider

trupheus agree that there should be racial options which is why I suggested 2-3 person provs instead of 2 Lithar.

Thardferr will always be big alliance vs bigger alliance. Most just 'nap' out of convenience so they can switch things up when/if it behooves them.

Blocking offensive spells inside provinces/sodes woukd be a big improvement.

Lord Thane

Great ideas! Maybe we could do random placement into large 12-kingdom lithar provs. I'd still like to see all races as 1 single province, and just have race slugfest lol

Keeper did mention we could do a fun mini between each regular round. Just to give us a little time to prepare major changes. I think it will be a little tradition, at least for the early rounds while we flesh out more modernization stuff.

Instant TP would be hilarious, definitely get everyone dumped right into the mess of it. Maybe start off with 10 castles too haha!