I've been gone from this mod for a good long while, but I've recently returned, to notice one very distinct thing. After a long and harrowing journey through Mirkwood and the Wilderland, I have arrived in Rhudel, and instantly, I get attacked by a Wicked Dwarf, because I'd killed spiders in the forest, and so had negative alignment with Mordor. That's all well and good, but after I dealt with that, I started on my way through Rhudel, and as I'm wandering the plains and hills, I see Wicked Dwarves. So many Wicked Dwarves. If I were to give a rough estimate, I'd say there's one Wicked Dwarf for every 5 Easterlings. Therefore, my suggestion is incredibly simple: Severely reduce the spawn rates of Wicked Dwarves in Rhudel, Mordor, and wherever else that they spawn in such abundance that I'm not aware of.
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NotEvilAtAll wrote: Gosh this is quite the necropost.
But ofc, everyone knows that Dunland is superior to all else
I love dunland, but they don't have ANY blacksmiths, or their own real weapon, which makes it quite hard to play as them.
I love the idea of Dunland. I don't really like how it's done in the mod. There's little variety in weapons or armor, they have like, four auto-gen structures, and they're kinda just easy to ignore.
It seems to me that the whole point of the mod is that you appear with zero alignment. Plus, now you can change your mind, or be partially kind. And the initial choice will greatly limit the entire reputation system, which has been honed over the years.
So it’s unlikely to add a choice of side and Saruman-guide.
I agree with Alexander. If you want to start off as a certain faction, rather than factionless, make a creative world, teleport to the homeland of whichever faction you want to be, cheat in some alignment, then remove your access to Shire waypoints, and then switch to survival.
I think the buff should come in the form of rohirrim marshalls spawning, with a spawn rate equivalent to black uruks to mordor orcs in mordor.
Rohirrim Marshalls are captains. I agree that Rohan needs better troops, but Marshalls? That ain't it chief.
Perhaps you're right, but regardless, if you want to add Marshalls as hireable units, then we'll need a new Rohirrim captain mob, because hiring Marshalls from other Marshalls is sort of like selling my computer to myself.
I think the buff should come in the form of rohirrim marshalls spawning, with a spawn rate equivalent to black uruks to mordor orcs in mordor.
Rohirrim Marshalls are captains. I agree that Rohan needs better troops, but Marshalls? That ain't it chief.
Rayn Turammarth wrote:
ArcenGamer wrote:
One problem in this scenario new players would be hard pressed to get miniquests from a conquered land
I fail to understand how miniquests have anything even tangentially to do with this.
Well, if you join a faction and all of the biome has been conquered then you might struggle to find someone to get a miniquest from. The decay is sort of a fix for that.
That's taking it to the extremes, and sounds like a problem for server staff. And keep in mind, this just gives players/servers the option to turn off the decay.
One problem in this scenario new players would be hard pressed to get miniquests from a conquered land
I fail to understand how miniquests have anything even tangentially to do with this.
At the moment, conquest has a decay rate of -1.0 conquest points per hour. This is perfectly reasonable, but there should be an option in the mod configuration to disable the decay. Even if it were disabled, pledged players of the faction being conquered could reverse the conquest by killing spawned troops of the invading faction.There are many benefits to this and no drawbacks that I can see. It would allow for fully fledged wars to actually be achieveable and such. And on servers, if, for example, on a server, Gondor invaded the Morgul Vale and conquest decay were disabled, they could fully conquer it. However, Mordor could counter-attack and if they were to kill enough spawned Gondorian troops, the conquest could be reversed.
I completely agree with this. Here's another example: Gandalf is traveling through the Lone-Lands, and pledges to the Dunedain so as to help them gain more influence on his travels. He eventually gets to the borders of Rivendell, and wants to help the Imladris Elves secure their borders, so switches his pledge to that of the High Elves. This can keep going on for a while, but yeah, factions that are friends and/or allies should have little to no penalty for breaking and re-pledging.
At the moment, if you have not pledged to any faction, and right-click on the Table of Command, you get the screen shown in the picture to the right. I see no reason why it should be this way. It puts the factionless and/or unpledged at a great disadvantage. They cannot see the conquests made by other players, so if, for example, an unpledged Haradrim mercenary were strolling through some Umbarim port that had been conquered by Gondor, he would have no way of knowing that he was walking into an area controlled by his enemies until it was too late. In short, I suggest that you should be able to see the conquests of other players even when not pledged.
Oh ok uh... just close down this thread then I guess.
As you can see, there is no alignment number displayed.
A bug is unintended behavior, and it doesn't have to be highly technical. I'll leave it here unless the current fire-rate is confirmed to be the correct intentional rate.
Tbh a bug report is just a higher-priority suggestion.
Duly noted.
This sounds like it belongs on the suggestions forum, because I highly doubt that this is a bug.
I like it. As for the water coloring though, the Sea of Rhun corresponds more or less with the Black Sea, so if anything, it should be lighter.
That's what I meant. Make the water a lighter, more Mediterranean color.
Oh ok. I probably misinterpreted it then.
I like it. As for the water coloring though, the Sea of Rhun corresponds more or less with the Black Sea, so if anything, it should be lighter.
Aside from being a totally impractical way to conquer land, this has been suggested countless times. Much as I would love to be able to conquer land, it won' t ever happen, or at best, not any time soon, and hopefully not like this.