Talk:Eras of Arda: The First Age Server/@comment-31200097-20170815182932/@comment-26172435-20170816203310

Everyone starts in the selected factions home biome, at a faction spawn point.

It's not intended as a bonus, but a safeguard. Other players don't run the risk of getting killed by the NPCs of their selected faction.

Best option I can think of is to make players who get an alignment bonus, also get alignment penalties upon selection of their faction. Example: Mordor gets +100, but also -50 with their two closest neighbouring and natural enemies.

Also note that Trolls also attack when you have less than +100 alignment, so Angmar and Dol Guldur factions also need an alignment bonus at start, to prevent many sudden deaths.