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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
@Carmain:
I don get it
Shallam (Sothantos, Silas, and Darroth mostly) has put, or attempted to put, a lot of time into training people. The only problem is 90% of them leave the city, end up being alts, or just quit playing.
Never going on the offense is boring.
Even when you lose on the offense, people will stick around more if you are going on the offense. Losing on the defence is far less interesting, and winning on the defence falls shallow after a while.
That would depend on what you want to do. Personally, my experience is people don't get very interested by sanctioned raids. They're not good for retaining players, as the deaths almost always outweigh the gains from room destruction if you bring roughly equal numbers, and they're also boring: the worst of both worlds. Border raids or mobile city skirmishes are what most people enjoy.
Shallam (for all practical purposes), is a super buffed Mhaldor without soulspear and blackwind. These two abilities, while awesome, do not define Mhaldor's real capabilities. Mhaldor's strength lies in gravehands and beckon, which allows for the splitting of groups or forcing people out of prepped rooms into theirs.
If by entrench you mean the ability to hunker down 40 rooms from the defenders and keep them from rushing, yes, Ashtan with the right people will likely own you and make your raid group thoroughly disgruntled and miserable. On the other hand, if you fight in close quarters and make intelligent use of beckon, rites, and your extremely potent ally support, that's a very different story. Entrenchment does not need to mean fortify miles from the fight to avoid melee and try to tank the best ranged on the game for as long as possible. It can (and should be considered if you want to have success with those abilities) mean forcing enemies to fight on your terms in rooms that you have prepped to give you advantage.
(I define success here not by rooms destroyed or kills earned. I define it by how fun and engaging it was for your group, and whether it will make those not completely invested players in your faction wish to stick around and do it again.)
@Tanris
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
Thread over when people bring earrings up because they're not goinggggggggggggg anywhereeeeeeeeee.
Unlike us in gravehands/piety*
If people are fortified at gates go indoors and lay banishment. Unless you're fighting without a priest (in which case you have noone to blame but yourself), you are then essentially occultist immune, and the stalemate starts.
This is why sanctioned raids aren't interesting, and in city in general is dull if the other side does not want to engage. If Shallam start rolling a cataclysm, I go outside the city because its obvious they're not going to melee: that's not an issue isolated to Shallam. (*puts on his preachers hat*, this is why the guard changes were a bad idea: they made entrenchment on guards viable, which means the group with stronger ranged has a disproportionate edge when fighting on the defence).
Regardless though, any form of offense is what will keep people coming back. Border raids fall into that category fine. Shallam's single issue is they don't make that a regular occurance for whatever reason, be it lack of interest or something else. If that doesn't change they will likely continue to find themselves losing alts and combatants for the reasons stated earlier.
Also, btw:
Does that mean Creator's only use now is to illusion myself walking into their group?
@Tvistor: Shallam actually rivals us consistently for population post efigy.
If Mhaldor can be doing raids on Shallam (I saws it yesterday, I dids!), noone can be complaining about being outnumbered.
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