Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26094198-20170102150005/@comment-28016283-20170102161008

These are good points and I really agree with you. Having really different factions makes playing a lot more interessting but I think because the mod is so big and everyone wants different factions it's almost impossible to improve the existing factions. This is why I think after rhun is filled in the far future we as the community should give the mod some time to improve the existing factions bevore adding great egales, dragons, gandalf and whatever the most popular plans are.

For me as a roleplayer the factions are the most interessting part of the mod because they give players the chance to feel as a part of this world. For example they can do politics or trade with each other. Unique factions would support that because if at the moment I mostly trade because it's nice for the rp but if for example the elves could forge any kind of gems and artifacts and the dwarves would be able to create statues and could maybe forge a special steel which you'll need to build siege weapons trading would make far more sense.

Another point are the production of faction specific things. I know some players who stopped playing the mod because there was nothing interessting about crafting. Making a mithril armour took them 30 seconds when they had the ore togheter. I think the factions would be a lot more interesting if they had different techniques of crafting. If you could build up a big dwarven smeltery (a multi block) to smelt mithril and dwarven steel, it would be a much bigger challenge and I as an elven wouldn't just grab a dwarven forge if I want to semlt mithril. This would already be supported if you'd need to build higher tears to smelt higher ores. For example you could smelt copper and tin and iron in a normal forge  (the actual). With iron you could build a tear one smeltery where you could smelt steel and with the steel you get the next tear and so on. If every faction has it's own production line the players need to spent much more time in building up their faction and would make you feel as you really are a part of the faction not just someone who builds in their style and hires their units....