Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25994755-20160208133929

Despite the immense size of the LOTR mod, something big is missing. Something that is extremely important in many ways but has been left out either due to the complexity of the idea or the reason of never being thought of in the first place. Towns. Yes, I know, villages are on the list of "Don't Suggest" but this is different than the clump of buildings planned for the mod. What I'm suggesting is growable towns in the mod. Sounds complex? Technically the structure for this already exists. A Town Hall spawner can be bought by a Captain if the player has 1500 alignment or more and with a measureable fortune. Once a Town Hall is placed, you will be given the option to name the town. Once a name has been entered, a fast-travel point bearing the name of your town will be placed on the map so that you can easily reach your town at any time. Each Town Hall is protected by a large plot secured by a banner on a gold block. Inside this area, like now, no blocks can be broken by enemy factions or players. Inside each town hall will be a banner, a Captain, a Table of Command, and a Town Assistant. From Town Assistants you can buy structure spawners such as houses and towers to grow your town. However, not everything is fine and dandy in towns. In building and maintaining a town you also have the added risk of invasions being more likely to appear near a town. The invasions that will appear near a town will be invasions that already occur in that biome or enemies of the faction the town belongs to. All of this I belive could be relatively added with simple additions without too much stress on Mevan's part.

This, However, isn't all. All of the above is simple additions while the next several points will be more difficult to add and more likely to be added later in the mod's progress. Once you own a town your area of influence will be displayed on the map in the color of your faction.In an added block inside the Town Hall you can view diplomatic relations with other towns, and choose to declare war or peace with towns across the map. This would obviously be more fun on multiplayer maps where players can declare war on other player's towns. Another feature would be improvements on the Town Hall. First would be the structure show, then the Town Hall could be upgraded to a castle-like structure, and so on and so forth.

If you have any suggestions for this post please add them in the comments, and thank you for reading! 