Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-38413639-20190817010633

Greetings everyone, from the hobbits of the shire to the high mountains of Valinor, I have yet another proposal for Arda.

As you all know, we have banner protection, player run politics, hired units, many things that resemble factions on the LOTR mod, but does that really make a unified functional nations system for the mod? In my opinion, it doesn't whatsoever.

When you look at the popular "Factions" plugin by Massivecraft, it has a highly complex system of land claiming, promotions, the list goes on, although I am certain that the majority of you are familiar with the plugin.

For a long time, I've been dreaming about what it would be like to have ouur very own factions plugin built-in to the LOTR Mod, it would be really nice to have such a feature. This would revolutionize the entire community, possibly even kickstart a renaissance on multiple servers. That's a bit of a stretch, but having such a feature would greatly change the mod as we know it.

Take sieges for example, sure you can activate it so you can attack another nation, but it the command can only be access by a staff member. What if players themselves could besiege other cities/towns/nations/etc all by themselves? Without having a staff member to intervene?

For example: Let's say Gondor wanted to invade Mordor, somehow they ended pushing all the way to Barad-Dur, the city of Barad-Dur is empty today because the members are offline, but it's a great opporunity for Gondor to beiege Mordor. Many of Gondor's veteran players whom are well trained/equipped are online and can easily crush the defenses of the city. Everything is going well for them. But there's a problem...

There isn't a staff member online, an hour has passed by and some of Gondor's members had to log off for the day, more hours pass by and Mordor's player-base begins to log on. Some of Barad-Dur's inhabitants notice the Gondorian army encamped and leads a furious assault, virtually destroying the invasion army, and Gondor won't be able to fight back for some time after that battle.

If only the commanders were able to launch their own siege assault... This is one of many issues we have with our current war system on our servers, only plugins can really save the day, but even then it doesn't feel authentic.

Let's say that we already had a factions system of our own... the scenario I mentioned above could have been a lot different, if the commander had been able to buy a siege camp from an NPC commander. Gondor could have been victorious that day, even have gained power over a crucial territory of Mordor. If we had a feature that could claim Barad-Dur as an outpost, eventually connecting it to Gondor territory, It would be a successfull conquest for Gondor.

I think this woulsd be something really cool to have in the mod. Thank you for reading.

- Sincerely, Lumornion, your fellow Wikia user 