Fredrik Lundberg
02-17-1998, 11:32 AM
>I have been pondering the question of the ruling up populations in
ridiciously
>short time frames. As best I can remember it there was a consensus
among
>those on this who responded that ruling a province from low to much
higher
>levels
>should take much more time than the rules actually require.
>
>It seemed to me that a somewhat smaller number felt that many of us
can, thru
>sheer superhuman efforts hold our noses and let such pass once in a
while but
>that no more than that. When the 2nd or 3rd domain tries to do this
credulity
>is strained past all reason.
>
>My idea is to look at an area like Anuire as a whole. Depending on
certain
>factors * the number of new adults in the region will increase by a
certain
>amount each year. All other things being equal when those new
"recruits"
>are distributed all further rule actions should fail. This would stop
the
>ad naseaum ruling of provinces.
>
>*war,disease,pestilence,famine,weather.
>
>Now the order that the rule actions fall in could be determined by
inititive
>or the best target rolls or the best actual rolls vs target.
Resolving such a
>situation is IMO not that difficult. But this scenario requires that
we deal
>with a population addition that is Kingdom wide.
>
>Most campaigns except the largest PBeM ones do not use an entire
Kingdom. Anuire
>for example has; 22 Human, 2 Elven, 2 Dwarven, 2 Goblin, and 4 mixed
race
>Awnsheghlien landed, regented, domains. What happens when many of
those domains
>are not being played ? I can see two ways of dealing with this.
>
>You could say that the unplayed domains are neutral and neither
provide
>population
>for domains in play nor take any away (through ruling themselves). In
that case
>all of your new "citizens" will be recruited from either other
players or the
>critical NPC's that the DM is running.
>
>Or you can play all of the domains on a partial basis insofar as
ruling and
>population growth is concerned.
>
>That's how I see it. Any ideas or comments ?
One easy way to handle this "ruling race" would be to increase the
intervals between the rulings. As it stands now in the rules you can
rule up a province once every domain turn regardless of the starting
and ending levels.
My suggestion on how this can be solved and at the same time slow down
the "ruling race" is to have the rule action take as many turns as the
new level to be completed, it would still be enough with one rule
action but the benefits from that action would be delayed a few turns
and the player would not be allowed to rule that same province during
that time.
For example say that Marlae Roesone wanted to rule up Caercas from a
level 4 to a level 5 province, as the rules are now she can do that in
one domain turn, with my suggestion it would take 5 domain turns
before the province level increased to 5 and in the mean time she can
not rule that same province.
This will make the "ruling race" slower and it will mean less
paperwork for the DM that in the solution above. Any comments?
Thank you for your time,
Fredrik Lundberg
ridiciously
>short time frames. As best I can remember it there was a consensus
among
>those on this who responded that ruling a province from low to much
higher
>levels
>should take much more time than the rules actually require.
>
>It seemed to me that a somewhat smaller number felt that many of us
can, thru
>sheer superhuman efforts hold our noses and let such pass once in a
while but
>that no more than that. When the 2nd or 3rd domain tries to do this
credulity
>is strained past all reason.
>
>My idea is to look at an area like Anuire as a whole. Depending on
certain
>factors * the number of new adults in the region will increase by a
certain
>amount each year. All other things being equal when those new
"recruits"
>are distributed all further rule actions should fail. This would stop
the
>ad naseaum ruling of provinces.
>
>*war,disease,pestilence,famine,weather.
>
>Now the order that the rule actions fall in could be determined by
inititive
>or the best target rolls or the best actual rolls vs target.
Resolving such a
>situation is IMO not that difficult. But this scenario requires that
we deal
>with a population addition that is Kingdom wide.
>
>Most campaigns except the largest PBeM ones do not use an entire
Kingdom. Anuire
>for example has; 22 Human, 2 Elven, 2 Dwarven, 2 Goblin, and 4 mixed
race
>Awnsheghlien landed, regented, domains. What happens when many of
those domains
>are not being played ? I can see two ways of dealing with this.
>
>You could say that the unplayed domains are neutral and neither
provide
>population
>for domains in play nor take any away (through ruling themselves). In
that case
>all of your new "citizens" will be recruited from either other
players or the
>critical NPC's that the DM is running.
>
>Or you can play all of the domains on a partial basis insofar as
ruling and
>population growth is concerned.
>
>That's how I see it. Any ideas or comments ?
One easy way to handle this "ruling race" would be to increase the
intervals between the rulings. As it stands now in the rules you can
rule up a province once every domain turn regardless of the starting
and ending levels.
My suggestion on how this can be solved and at the same time slow down
the "ruling race" is to have the rule action take as many turns as the
new level to be completed, it would still be enough with one rule
action but the benefits from that action would be delayed a few turns
and the player would not be allowed to rule that same province during
that time.
For example say that Marlae Roesone wanted to rule up Caercas from a
level 4 to a level 5 province, as the rules are now she can do that in
one domain turn, with my suggestion it would take 5 domain turns
before the province level increased to 5 and in the mean time she can
not rule that same province.
This will make the "ruling race" slower and it will mean less
paperwork for the DM that in the solution above. Any comments?
Thank you for your time,
Fredrik Lundberg